Acupuncture is safe and virtually free of side effects.  This is because it's action is regulatory, encouraging the body to make natural changes from within.

Acupuncture is preventive medicine.  It can prevent minor disorders from worsening or becoming chronic.

 

Acupuncture can treat emotional disorders as well as the emotional component of physical disorders.  Oriental medicine does not recognize a mind-body dichotomy and is truly holistic and integrative.

 

Acupuncture treats the person, not the disease.  Each person is treated according to the overall configuration of his or her signs, symptoms, habits, personality.  Two patients with the same disorder would almost certainly receive different treatments.

 

Acupuncture is cost effective, and is much cheaper than most types of medical intervention.  Less invasive therapies such as acupuncture are best used as a first resort rather than as a last resort.