1.   The needle conducts the heat into the acupuncture point.

2.   Even some of these studies were considered limited, a number of them because they involved too few or too infrequent acupuncture treatments, or even incorrect acupuncture points.

3.   For example, most studies have used other, nearby points on the skin for comparison with the effects of manipulating real acupuncture points.

4.   Further, they said, unless the correct acupuncture points are used and enough treatments are given, the technique is not likely to accomplish its goal.

5.   Moxibustion involves burning an herb near the body so that the smoke stimulates particular acupuncture points.

6.   The acupuncture points are on the hands, nose and ears.

7.   This was one way French researchers discovered acupuncture points on the ear not initially known to the Chinese, notes Andrew Parfitt, a National Institutes of Health neurochemist.