Tcm acupuncture stands for traditional chinese medicine and acupuncture is the procedure of inserting and manipulating needles into various points on the body to relieve pain or for therapeutic purposes a tcm acupuncturist will diagnosis a patient by various questions observation and feeling the pulse 38 looking at the tongue after then inserting needles according to a prescriptions of points different variations of acupuncture are practiced and taught throughout the world there is als