A Multicenter Prospective Survey of Adverse Events Associated with Acupuncture and Moxibustion in Japan.

Conclusions: Acupuncture and moxibustion performed in educational facilities in Japan were safe because most of the AEs reported were mild and transient. However, the risk cannot be defined definitely because the survey sample size was too small.
PMID: 28736592 [PubMed]

Source: Acupuncture in Medicine - June 1, 2017 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Furuse N, Shinbara H, Uehara A, Sugawara M, Yamazaki T, Hosaka M, Yamashita H Tags: Med Acupunct Source Type: research