Acupuncture accepted more by public, medical community

When Diana Hermann first went to school to study acupuncture 10 years ago, people asked her, “Acupuncture – what’s that?”

Today when Hermann tells people she’s an acupuncturist, she hears things like, “Oh, my mom tried that, and it really worked for her.”

The acceptance of acupuncture as a method of treatment is growing among the general public and the medical community. According to the 2002 National Health Interview Survey, an estimated 8.2 million adults in the United States had used acupuncture at some point in their lives.

The number of acupuncturists is also growing. There are about 11,000 certified acupuncturists in the…