(Chinese) treatment of pain or disease by inserting the tips of needles at specific points on the skin

Usage examples of acupuncture.

And who cared about werewolves infecting the unwary so long as you could get a good manicure or acupuncture treatment?

He guessed correctly about where she was heading: back to the acupuncture shop.

I patted the pocket where my tiny set of gold acupuncture needles rested in their ivory case.

Resigned, I groped in the pocket of my skirt, where I had placed the small box containing the Chinese acupuncture needles that had saved his life on our Atlantic crossing.

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It borrowed acupuncture and the moxa from the Japanese heathen, and was taught the use of lobelia by the American savage.

Nosoki told me that he relies mainly on the application of the moxa and on acupuncture in the treatment of acute diseases, and in chronic maladies on friction, medicinal baths, certain animal and vegetable medicines, and certain kinds of food.

Nina knocked at the entry and entered the front room with its enthusiastic ferns and posters of acupuncture points and scoliotic backs.

By this their doctors are guided in the performance of acupuncture, marking the safe places to thrust in needles, as we buoy out our ship-channels, and doubtless indicating to learned eyes the spots where incautious meddling had led to those little accidents of shipwreck to which patients are unfortunately liable.

His probes, placed with the delicacy of acupuncture needles, could intrude barely noticed.

He ran for his pins and began testing acupuncture and pain points, with no reaction whatsoever from the children.

I can assure you that FCA did not start doing acupuncture as part of the in-vitro protocol.

There was everything from the Hampstead Acupuncture Clinic to the Hampstead Youth Club and, hidden among the many entries, the Hampstead Home for Retired Clergymen.

But cerebral and retinal scanning were painless, and one never felt the acupuncture that deadened the leg for the blood, bone marrow, and tissue samples.