A massage or physical therapy using finger pressure on acupuncture points on the body to balance the energy system of the body and bring about healing. Acupuncture therapy often includes Chinese medicines, diet, breathing and exercise in order to relieve pain, create anesthesia, correct dysfunction and prevent disease and addictions.
Acupuncture is certified or licensed in many states.
The mainstream school of medicine whose therapeutic modalities are generally confined to surgery, radiation, and synthetic drug therapies. Allopathic medicine utilizes the principle of opposites and is characterized by specialization according to diagnoses or anatomy. All licensed M.D.s have a basic education in allopathic medicine. A system of therapeutics based upon the theories of Rudolf Steiner developed in the late 1800s. It conceptualizes the human being as being physical, etheric and spritual and considers each aspect of this three-fold being in the treatment of illness.