This section provides support for the use of acupuncture interventions in conjuction with pulse diagnostic methods.

Acupuncture is a medical intervention that is highly sophisticated. There are many models for understanding how it works. The viewpoints of early agrarian China and contemporary biomedicine both have valuable contributions to the knowledge that we have about acupuncture and how it works.

Daoist cosmological perspectives may have an equal validity to neurotransmitters, gate theory and inflammatory modulation theories of acupuncture and how it works.