As I reread this topic I found my post from last year when I was just starting acupunture. I had the treatment at the pain clinic at Mayo in Rochester MN. My doctor is a MD in the pain clinic who became interested in acupuncture some years ago and trained extensively. He was doing some research on the effectiveness on salivary glands but I was not part of the study. He did not use the candy or do any measurements of my saliva production. However, both he and my surgeon said that the "statistical" result was of little meaning as opposed to how I felt. I really really wanted this to work but I don't think there was any noticable improvement as a result. I figured it was worth a try

ilene