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  1. System of inserting long, thin metal needles
  2. into the body at predetermined points to
  3. relieve pain, as an anaesthetic in surgery,
  4. and to assist healing. The needles are
  5. rotated manually or electrically. The method,
  6. developed in ancient China and increasingly
  7. popular in the West, is thought to work by
  8. somehow stimulating the brain's own
  9. painkillers, the endorphins.
  10.  
  11. Subject by: Russell Webb
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