Ageing, Healthy, and in Control: An Alternative Approach to Maintaining the Health of Older People |
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... Acupuncture is perhaps the best known form of Oriental medicine . Fulder ( 1988 ) summarizes its rise in popularity . Twenty years ago acupuncture was assumed to be mere trickery . Fifteen years ago it was somewhat more acceptable ...
... Acupuncture is perhaps the best known form of Oriental medicine . Fulder ( 1988 ) summarizes its rise in popularity . Twenty years ago acupuncture was assumed to be mere trickery . Fifteen years ago it was somewhat more acceptable ...
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... acupuncture point and lighting it . Acupuncture also recognizes 12 different pulses , six in each wrist , and each corresponding to one of the meridians . By feeling these pulses , experienced practitioners are able to diagnose any ...
... acupuncture point and lighting it . Acupuncture also recognizes 12 different pulses , six in each wrist , and each corresponding to one of the meridians . By feeling these pulses , experienced practitioners are able to diagnose any ...
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... acupuncture is best used as a means of maintaining , rather than rehabilitating , health . Acupuncture is not a self - help therapy ; it has to be applied by trained therapists . However , shiatsu and acupressure work on the same prin ...
... acupuncture is best used as a means of maintaining , rather than rehabilitating , health . Acupuncture is not a self - help therapy ; it has to be applied by trained therapists . However , shiatsu and acupressure work on the same prin ...
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