Western treatment actually does not include acupuncture in its tradition. However, most doctors now also refer this Oriental treatment to the patients. This is because the method had been in practice among Chinese people for years and had been proven to be one of the effective ways for healing some types of pain in the body.
The Oriental method is now in fact widely practiced in the modern Health care. The most popular practice of this treatment is related to the back pain. The principle goes that the body has so many pathways with more than 2000 points through which the qi or the vital energy of life is flowing throughout the body. Sometimes, the flow of this energy is not just like the way it should be. An acupuncturist will insert special needles on some points and let them stay there for 15 to 30 minutes to correct the wrong flow.
Patients report about the tingling sensation when the needles were inserted on the certain points of the body. However, there is no pain involved in the insertion since the needles do not have sharp edges. Patients also report about the positive improvement in their Health, power and energy.