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¡°Sham acupuncture involved sticking needles in randomly over the lower
back, avoiding the meridians and points that dictate where the needles
are placed in traditional acupuncture.¡±
¡°The researchers had hoped the two acupuncture techniques would
identify whether the psychological, or placebo, affect was at work, in
which patients' positive expectations persuade them the treatment helps.
Patients in the study did not know the difference between the two
techniques. ¡®The underlying mechanism may be a kind of superplacebo
effect,¡¯ Haake wrote.¡±