Unfortunately drug commercials tout a simple clear cut answer for insomnia problems. In 2005 almost $300 million was spent promising the public better rest and a fuller life, and America bought it. A record 43 million sleeping pill prescriptions were filled in 2006. Television commercials have managed to reduce insomnia to a simple message, "Can’t sleep? Take a pill." But this disorder is very complex and can have multiple and varying causes and cannot be dismissed with a cure all approach. Insomnia often presents major challenges to treatment.

People with depression may benefit as much from acupuncture as they do from counseling.

Acupuncture was one of the first ancient therapies that considered the connection between mind and body to be inseparable. Internal causes for disease and “un”-wellness were considered to be caused by imbalanced emotional states such as anger, sadness, worry, over stimulation and, of course, fear.

Do you feel fatigued? Do you have trouble losing weight? Do you experience trouble falling asleep or staying asleep? You are suffering from stress!

Are you trying to get pregnant using IVF treatments? Using acupuncture is a proven way to help increase the chances of pregnancy by increasing implantation and pregnancy rates.

What really causes allergic reactions is your own immune system. It mistakes these innocuous allergens for a serious threat and attacks them.

Acupuncture has local and distal effects. Local effects of acupuncture means that when you put acupuncture needles in the exact area of the pain, be it the shoulder or the neck, it relaxes the muscle. Distal effects means that you can needle a point far away from the painful part, or distally, and strongly spark the body's ability to reduce the pain.

Did you know that makers of drug medications make over 96 billion dollars a year on digestive-related conditions?

Acupuncture increases the number of egg follicles available for fertilization in women undergoing IVF. The journal Medical Acupuncture in 2000, Sandra Emmons, MD, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Oregon Health Sciences University, reported that acupuncture directly impacts the number of egg follicles available for fertilization in women undergoing IVF.