Acupunture: evidence-based practice

Abstract

Acupuncture has been put in evidence more recently. It represents an ascending practice among under-graduated medical students, as well as among graduated physicians in search for their specialization. Recently, acupuncture won BMA approval, which not only recommended NHS to accept acupuncture to treat chronic headache, but suggested that more primary care doctors should be trained to practice acupuncture. In a review of some recent studies, acupuncture has been studied as a validated practice to treat conditions like systemic arterial hypertension and in vitro fertilization, conditions which differ from usual indication of acupuncture. This new situation put a new perspective to acupuncture, perhaps it is on due time that acupuncture should be considered as part of orthodox medicine.