MEDINDY doesn't exclude this.  Chinese research is caveated, yes, but there is mainstream interest in this outside China: the source  is in a reasonable journal, and its focus is the subject of e.g. a study at Johns Hopkins .  Beware the circular logic that those interested in acupuncture are true believers because acu is fringe because the only people interested in it are true believers.  (t • c |  • )