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Acupuncture can be used for the treatment of headaches. The acupuncture approach of treating headaches is choosing acupuncture points along meridian of the major headache region. Auricular acupuncture can also be applied for the treatment of headaches.

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  1. School of Chinese Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Republic of China

    Jaung-Geng Lin CMD, MD, PhD

  2. Department of Anesthesiology, China Medical University Hospital, 2 Yuh-Der Road, North District, 40447, Taichung, Taiwan, Republic of China

    Kuen-Bao Chen MD, MSc

  3. Department of Acupuncture, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Republic of China

    Yu-Chen Lee MD

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Correspondence to Kuen-Bao Chen MD, MSc .

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  1. Medical Acupuncture Service, Department of Anaesthesia (Pediatrics) Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Yuan-Chi Lin

  2. Department of Anesthesiology, Pain Management Fellowship, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA;, Los Angeles, California, USA

    Eric Shen-Zen Hsu

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Lin, JG., Chen, KB., Lee, YC. (2014). Headache. In: Lin, YC., Hsu, EZ. (eds) Acupuncture for Pain Management. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5275-1_25

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