Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | This subject has been up before and I believe that the consensus was that it was ineffective and a waste of money. One acupuncturist himself stated that it wasn't effective for dry mouth issues.
If you do a search on "acupuncture" you should be able to find the previous discsussions on it.
But who knows placebos work for a lot of people as well!
Gary Allsebrook *********************************** Dx 11/22/02, SCC, 6 x 3 cm Polypoid tumor, rt tonsil, Stage III/IVA, T3N0M0 G1/2 Tx 1/28/03 - 3/19/03, Cisplatin ct x2, IMRT, bilateral, with boost, x35(69.96Gy) ________________________________________________________ "You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes" (James 4:14 NIV)
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