BBC 2 Series (UK)
Alternative Medicine - Acupuncture
Tue 24 Jan, 9:00 pm - 10:00 pm 60mins
Kathy Sykes investigates the 2,000 year-old practice of acupuncture. She discovers powerful evidence that ancient Chinese doctors had found a way to manipulate the power of our own minds.
Kathy begins her journey in China where she hears and sees powerful evidence that acupuncture works. The most astonishing is a scene in a Chinese hospital in which doctors perform open heart surgery on a young woman using acupuncture instead of a general anaesthetic. In China, she discovers, acupuncture is used alongside western medicine and, at times, as a replacement.
So, what does western science make of these claims? Kathy meets the key scientists both in the UK and in the US who have put them to the test.
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