I did my surgery residency at this hospital. It disappoints the hell out of me to see my surgical alma mater promoting quackery. I might have forgiven saying acupuncture works for pain (it doesn’t), but acupuncture does NOT prevent or treat colds and the flu. I’m so ashamed.
https://twitter.com/UHhospitals/status/1200479585781133313 …
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I mean, I'm intrigued, too, but I can't find any in Google Scholar. Fun fact: moxibustion keeps coming up. Evidently acupuncture and moxibustion are studied together in Japan?!
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Here's the search I tried: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?start=10&q=influenza+acupuncture+prevention+effectiveness&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5&as_ylo=2000 … It did not pull up any trials of acupuncture as a means of preventing influenza.
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