It has been reported that more than I million Americans currently received acupuncture each year… reported by The NIH Consensus Statement on Acupuncture in 1997. The number of people who have discovered acupuncture has kept growing since then. According to the Arthritis foundation, acupuncture treatment has become one of the most popular unconventional therapies in the U.S. today, with about 15 million Americans having tried acupuncture so far.