The Borgstrand Clinic

About

Acupuncture is new to the western world, but very old in the Far East. Acupuncture has been used in China for at least 3600 years. Today one-third of the world's population (perhaps 2 billion people) depends, in part, on acupuncture for health care. It is used extensively in the People's Republic of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Korea, Viet Nam, and Japan. Acupuncture's effectiveness is just being discovered in the United States, Canada and Europe.Acupuncture is the balancing of the body's energy system to bring about healing. It is based on the idea of yin and yang, the Oriental concept of opposites balancing in oneness. The Chinese theorize that energy, called "qi" (pronounced chee), flows through the bod