
Crisis acupuncture
'24 Hearts for 24 Floors', near Grenfell Tower, West London (picture: Yvonne Abel) Increasingly in recent years our needles have been used to help citizens cope in the aftermath of disasters and in ongoing traumatic situations, for example in New York post-9/11, in the wake of the 2011 hurricane in Teresópolis, Brazil, and also in Myanmar and Gaza. Here in the UK, acupuncture can be used to treat members of the armed forces suffering from PTSD, and Battlefield Acupuncture is