Acupuncture is actually the tapping of the power which is already within us. Now for example, you have a certain power in your stomach, and this power is continuously supplied to your other organs in the stomach, and it is used for that, through the sympathetic nervous system. The parasympathetic stores it and the sympathetic uses it. Now supposing there is a disease in the stomach. So now the energy in that which is the vital energy in that particular centre is sort of exha