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There is a wealth of studies on the subject, fairly recently a 2014 Australian clinical study involving over 280 men and women. This study showed that in a number of complaints, acupuncture scored "modestly better' than no treatment at all. Which is not exactly a glowing endorsement.
Other studies sometimes come up more positive, but often with regard to complaints with psychosomatic overtones like lower back pain and headaches and even then its score is often only marginally better. In some cases simulated ('make-believe') acupuncture scored better than actual acupuncture.
Acupuncture is a form of treatment that has its fierce defenders as well as skeptics who give it the same ranking as other 'ancient Chinese' medicine like rhino horn against impotence. But 'scientifically proven' as a really effective treatment for all the cases where it claims to be it isn't. It may well be that the so-called 'placebo effect' is at work here: if you firmly believe that a treatment is effective, it sometimes is.
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