Tiny Gold Acupuncture Needles Found in South Korean Woman’s Knees

Tiny Gold Acupuncture Needles Found in South Korean Woman’s KneesSubmitted by Avinash Tripathi on Wed, 01/15/2014 - 09:49 

It was quite shocking for doctors when they found tiny gold acupuncture needles in 65-year-old woman’s knee. The South Korean woman complained of severe joint pain and when X-ray was carried out gold acupuncture needles showed in her knees.
Treating arthritis by inserting gold needles around the joint is quite common in Asian countries. The woman has shared that she was diagnosed with osteoarthritis and had tried a number of medicines to lessen the pain.
But when nothing worked for her, she tried acupuncture. It is a practice in which needles are used to stimulate certain points of body. Many people claim that acupuncture offers pain relief.

In the case of woman, needles were intentionally left in her tissues, so that she can get continued stimulation. She felt a lot of pain in her joints and then it was found that gold needles are present in her knee tissues.
"The human body wants to get rid of the foreign object. It starts with some mechanism of defense, for example inflammation and forming fibrous tissuearound the object”, said Dr. Ali Guermazi from Boston University and was not involved in the study. He further affirmed that foreign objects are not accepted by human body.