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Back in 2005, I started weekly acupuncture treatments. Primarily, I went for stomach distress. However, during that first summer of treatment, I felt less anxious, better able to tolerate the brutal New York City summers and I felt less sensitive to environmental seasonal allergies, which I have ever...
A pity there wasn't a 'sham acupuncture' group included in the study, which might have helped to elucidate whether the effect is due to placebo. (A recent study of acupuncture in infertility treatment found better results in the sham rather than the real acupuncture group). I've only seen the abstract but the sentence - "Six-month improvements in both acupuncture groups were lower than they had been at 3 months." - suggests to me a placebo response is at work.