What Acupuncture Will Do, and What It Won’t Do

There are at least two things that everyone should know about acupuncture: It can help relieve tension headaches, and it can ease back pain. It most likely does not, on the other hand, relieve depression, and it appears to be fairly useless against asthma. The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine has a lot to say about acupuncture, including some attempts to explain the science of how it might work. Or not.

Read more about the truth and the myths of acupuncture and four other alternative medical treatments in Men’s Health.