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Cosmetic acupuncture addresses aging concerns by promoting the production of new collagen and elastin. It has been used in a cosmetic context for thousands of years in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). 

Microneedling is offered to treat a wide variety of skin conditions. According to Yale Medicine, "Patients have a high satisfaction when they can improve the appearance of their skin and eliminate signs of aging." Professional devices evenly push the microneedles into the skin compared to at-home devices, which only superficially affect the skin. 

Review this article that clearly establishes acupuncture efficacy in the treatment to "ease migraines and arthritis and other forms of chronic pain."

Check Out what research was conducted on acupuncture and IVF, Spoiler: "Clinical pregnancies were documented in 34 of 80 patients (42.5%) in the acupuncture group, whereas pregnancy rate was only 26.3% (21 out of 80 patients) in the control group."

Many patients present with debilitating Lyme disease, although acupuncture helps ease its side effects, here's an exciting article that suggests Claritin may offer a cure.

Acupuncture is effective in treating migraines—here's the exciting research showing how it’s actually affecting your brain and why it works. 

Here's a great article explaining the complexities of Chronic pain: "Imagine you have long-term back pain that is not clearly related to any movement or structural pathology. It is likely that the pain’s cause is more global and complex – meaning that it does not lie in any single factor, but in an imbalanced relationship between the major systems of the body – immune, endocrine and nervous" Acupuncture looks at the body as a whole, not as segments.

Western medicine is starting to understand acupuncture complexities: "Acupuncture point LU11 (Shaoshang) has a confirmed anatomical composition. Researchers using fluorescence microscopy determined that the epidermal and underlying dermis layers of acupoint LU11 contain high densities of connexins, an important intercellular communication structure"