It is a safe form of treatment with none of the unpleasant and sometimes long-term side effects of medication, it can of course complement conventional medication, often enhancing the effects of it. Acupuncture treatments may enable you to reduce or stop some medication, but only after consultation with your doctor; this can help to reduce NHS costs.
Other seemingly non-relation symptoms are often improved, i.e. other than those being specifically treated. Frequently a general sense of well being is experienced by the patient. The treatments involves no pain.
The results give long lasting relief as the treatment is aimed at the basic imbalance that causes the problem, rather than at purely the symptoms experienced.