What is Acupuncture? Acupuncture is part of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), a traditional healing system based on a holistic ideology, which has been used in China and the East for many centuries to restore balance to the human body and the community. Through the insertion of extremely slim needles into key points in the body, qi or vital substance, is brought into balance and health is restored. Through a Western lens, acupuncture has been studied and linked to pain reli