Is acupuncture like noodles? Whether acupuncture works is in some doubt and the truth is that we need to make allopathic medicine more accessible in my opinion. I don't want us to get frozen out of new effective treatments, frozen out of doing research, frozen out of knowing whether you have indigestion or uterine cancer... We need to be on the front lines of science influencing it for the good, not sitting back trying to make needle sticks work for non self limiting illnesses.