You can use acupuncture for anesthesia. They're that potent. That's why we call it Qi, which makes doctors puke. In Russia, acupuncture is regarded as a specialty of medicine, and Tatevian learned it in a postgraduate program. So he chose acupuncture because he believed it had more potential.
Acupuncture is most effective if combined wisely with conventional medicine.
He went, but knew immediately there was no role for acupuncture. Instead, he watched in awe as doctors brought the severely ill woman back from the brink. In China, in Russia, even in most of Europe, Tatevian said, a woman that sick would have died. And yet the miracles of Western medicine can't do anything for the numbness in Linda Cozine's feet. There, Tatevian uses acupuncture to ease the nausea caused by chemotherapy.