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Acupuncture May Be Ineffective for Stroke—Reply
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We thank Moffet for his thoughtful contribution to the discussion on our work.1 He identifies precisely the dilemma of acupuncture research today—how to respectfully preserve a practice based on accumulated clinical observation over many centuries, and at the same time apply a rational approach to biology.
A clinical diagnosis that is made in traditional Chinese terms is based on the identification of patterns of symptoms—just as Western diagnosis is. Therefore, it is not surprising that the traditional diagnostic categories reflect real differences between patient groups.2 It is possible, indeed, that traditional methods can identify more subtle patient types than Western diagnosis can, although genomics may well change this. However, even though traditional diagnosis seems to have biological meaning, we accept that traditional point selection also needs to be validated, and we have seen little scientific evidence to substantiate certain practices. For our study, it seemed important to us . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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Jongbae Park, KMD, PhD;
Martin A. James, MD, FRCP;
Adrian White, MA, BM, BCh, MD
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