It's a question I'm asked a lot. In the first year of studing for my acupuncture degree, whenever one of the students asked a question about Chinese medicine, the answer was very often, 'Well, it depends'! It wasn't long before the entire cohort would pipe up, 'It depends', when someone asked a question. And as frustrating as the answer was, we students slowly realised that when it comes to acupuncture, it really does depend! But depend on what?, I hear you cry. Acupuncture is an[...]