Acupuncture has been used to successfully treat alopecia areata (Ge 1990), lichen ruber planus (Iliev, Popov & Nicolov 1995), chronic relapsing herpes simplex (Liao & Liao 1991).

Ge S 1990 Treatment of alopecia areata with acupuncture. Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine 10(3):199-200

Iliev F, Popov J, Nicolov K 1995 Evaluation of clinical and immunological parameters in patients with lichen ruber planes treated with acupuncture. Acupuncture in Medicine 13(2):91-92.

Liao S J, Liao T A 1991 Acupuncture treatment for herpes simplex infections. Acupuncture and Electro-therapeutics Research 16:135-142

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