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Acupuncture Therapy Acupuncture is the procedure of inserting and manipulating filiform needles into various points on the body to relieve pain  or for therapeutic purposes. The word acupuncture comes from the Latin acus, "needle", and pungere,  "to prick". According to traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture points are situated on meridians along which qi (a "life energy"), flows. Modern acupuncture texts present them as ideas that are useful in clinical practice and continue to inform the practice of acupuncture, but there is no evidence to support their existence and they have not been reconciled with contemporary knowledge about biology, physics or chemistry.