Acupuncture gets to the point

As increasing numbers turn to alternative Asian medicine to relieve their symptoms, Michigan will start to register practitioners.

By Patricia Anstett Free Press Medical Writer

Water cascades in a tabletop fountain. Flute music plays softly. Oriental paintings hung the walls. Okemos acupuncturist Renee Hubbs aims to please, soothe and alleviate the problems of a growing number of converts who seek out the ancient art.

For 22 years, she offered acupuncture for pain relief, smoking cessation, stress reduction, infertility, hormonal balance for postmenopausal women and, more recently, facelifts, To plump up the skin and iron wrinkles away, Hubbs uses two pencils - like tools that emit a low -frequency current applied to acupuncture points on the face.

"It's a medicine that's been around for 5,000 years. Obviously it works," she says.

Even if it doesn't cure a disease, people usually have "better peace of mind, and are more relaxed and able to handle" a health problem, she says.

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