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What is an acupuncturist?
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Pressure: Acupuncturist is an alternative medicine provider who uses special needles to influence certain points on the human body thereby exercising various effects upon body organs. They states that organs have reflecting points on the skin that can be influenced to obtain certain effect on that organ (activating or inhibiting).
Answered 1/16/2013
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A healer: An acupuncturists practices an ancient healing art which can reduce or eliminate pain, restore body function, invigorate, accelerate healing and bring spiritual, physical and emotional balance.
Answered 1/16/2013
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