Originally Posted by
tlacoatl
Apart from:
1. People may, with this as well as other "alternative" medicines, choose to use this rather than get the proper medical care they need.
2. Its un-licenced, unregulated, with no qualifications, oversight, or proffessional body, so you are essentially letting some unskilled amateur stick metal needles in your body. You have no guarantee that they are clean, or that you wont get internal damage (aparantly 1.5% of complications are from punctured lungs....)
3. You can get all the benefits from a good masseuse, without any of the risks, or, preferably, go see a qualified physiotherapist.