Check out the recent article on Organizing Upgrade that discusses acupuncture's use as a Healing Justice tool. For me, this is how acupuncture really works.

In addition to being amazing for migraines, cramps, anxiety, depression, and the whole slew of symptoms and conditions identified by the World Health Organization, acupuncture is a modality that has the potential to be transformational in the lives of those who have access to it.

It is cost effective. It is safe. It can be done in groups, in community. It can bring people together for collective healing from trauma and violence. It can be a tool for making healing and health care accessible to everyone. When used in this way, not only can it be used for removing obstructions within the individual that cause discomfort and dis-ease; but it can be a tool for dissolving much larger social and political obstructions that reinforce injustice and inequality on local and systemic levels.