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Article: ACUPUNCTURE PATIENTS RELIEVED, BUT WHY?(Living)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- July 2, 1991
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Byline: Robert Whitaker Staff writer
Since he was a teenager, Howard Shaffer has suffered from hay fever, trekking to allergists and other specialists in a futile effort to find relief. These doctors routinely prescribed drugs that, while alleviating his symptoms somewhat, had undesirable side effects.
This spring, when his nose began to run and his eyes turned itchy, he turned as "a last resort" to acupuncture.
"Within six treatments, I was 98 percent healed," Shaffer said, stretched out on a Wednesday morning in acupuncturist Dr. Jane Pang's office, looking for all the world like a human pin cushion, needles sticking into his legs, hands, ...