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Acupuncture Therapy

"Acupuncture Therapy" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

Treatment of disease by inserting needles along specific pathways or meridians. The placement varies with the disease being treated. It is sometimes used in conjunction with heat, moxibustion, acupressure, or electric stimulation.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Acupuncture Therapy" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Acupuncture Therapy" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 227 publications over 28 distinct years, with a maximum of 18 publications in 2008
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