Taunton Community Acupuncture Centre

Acupuncture is the procedure of inserting and manipulating filiform needles into various points on the body to relieve pain or for therapeutic purposes. The word acupuncture comes from the Latin acus, needle, and pungere, to prick. In Standard Chinese, acupuncture is called (zhnbin) or a related word, zhnji) which refers to acupuncture together with moxibustion. According to traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture points are located on meridians along which qi (a life energy) flows.