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Q: accupuncture for gout

asked by: stanl on February 25th, 2008

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Traditional Chinese medicine suggests acupuncture to help with gout. It makes some sense: acupuncture should help improving blood circulation and perhaps it would help dissolve the uric acid crystals that were formed in joints due to poor circulation to begin with.

Has anybody tried it? And ...?

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