Story: Alternative health therapies

Acupuncture

Acupuncture

Traditional Chinese medicine practitioner and registered doctor Stephen Yan is using acupuncture to treat Jeremy Sampath's hay fever.

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Alexander Turnbull Library
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Photograph by Lara Carson

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Kerryn Pollock, 'Alternative health therapies - Asian alternative-health therapies', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/photograph/27960/acupuncture (accessed 10 June 2023)

Story by Kerryn Pollock, published 5 May 2011, reviewed & revised 6 Apr 2018