General Info Apart from success of modern medicine in early diagnosis and treatment of various acute and surgical problems, lack of similar results in solving of chronic conditions as well as economical burden of overall treatment procedures lead people to look for alternative medical strategies. Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is one of these alternatives with its safe and cost-effective treatment modalities. Acupuncture, the most popular mode of TCM treatment, has been officially accepted in Western medicine as alternative treatment option for certain medical problems in 19971, after which popularity of acupuncture rapidly increased. According to tentative data2, made in 80s, there was more than 1 mln medical doctors, using acupuncture in their daily practice by the year 2000. The results in United States of America, gathered from 5 states, shown complete improvement in 92%, decrease in visits to their physicians in 84% and decrease in need for medications in 79% of patients after acupuncture treatment3. This website has been prepared with the purpose to provide those, who is interested in better understanding of acupuncture and other modalities of TCM, with relevant information of this old but new for us comlementary and alternative medical treatment. Reference 1. National Institutes of Health Consensus Panel. Acupuncture. Bethesda, MD, National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Statement, November 3-5, 1997. 2. Pomeranz B, Stux G. Scientific Bases of Acupuncture. Berlin, Germany, Springer-Verlag, 1989. 3. Cassidy CM. Chinese medicine users in the United States. Part I: Utilization, satisfaction, medical plurality. Journal of Alternative & Complementary Medicine. 4(1): 17-27, 1998.