Going under the needle

If you are brave enough to go under the needle, you may find relief from all the sneezing, running or stuffy nose, nasal itching, coughing, headache and fatigue that comes with rhinitis, an allergic condition.

Doctors believe irritation and inflammation of the mucous membrane inside the nose, or a lining of the nasal cavity rich with blood vessels and nerves, causes rhinitis, but it is hard to cure.

However, the China-Japan Friendship Hospital in Beijing announced that its traditional Chinese medicine practitioners might have found a cure, based on TCM acupuncture practice and Western anatomical theories.