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Traditional Chinese medicine has been practised for around 3,
000 years,
but it (be) relatively recent in the West,
and acupuncture(针灸)only really became well known in the
West in the 1970s as people began to travel (much)frequently between the two areas of the
world.
A significant event in the history of acupuncture (come)in 1971, when a journalist from the New York
Times had his appendix(阑尾)
(remove)in China, when on a trip to the country with
Henry Kissinger, the Secretary of State for the USA. Surgeons used
acupuncture to deaden the pain of the operation, greatly impressed Kissinger.
Although at first doctors in the West were often sceptical
of the (medicine)value of acupuncture,
in the last few years
it has become more established an alternative to Western medical treatments,
since clinical tests
have shown that acupuncture is effective for
number of conditions.
In the West, the treatment is often used (relieve)headaches, dental pain, back pain and arthritis,
and to treat
depression, asthma,
stress,
high blood pressure
and anxiety. Cherie Blair, a well-known human rights lawyer and
the wife of the British Prime Minister, was recently spotted (wear)an acupuncture needle in her ear,
suggesting that she
uses the treatment to deal with stress.
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