Talk:Skin

Oriental medicine/acupuncture

This article should be primarily about skin itself, not things one can do with skin. Topics such as cosmetics, acupuncture, dermatology, cosmetic surgery, and soap are related to skin but should be primarily presented in other articles. I think a brief mention of acupuncture is likely appropriate, but a detailed discussion should be deferred to acupuncture. The scientific analysis of acupuncture is too complicated to neutrally summarize in this article, so I think we should replace:

Modern attempts to verify to existence of acupoints on the skin, with the help of functional magnetic resonance imaging and positron emission tomography of the brain, suggest that at least some acupoints do exist, although their material substrate remains unknown.[2]

with

The scientific basis for acupuncture is unclear; see acupuncture for details.

--Warren Schudy 15:28, 10 January 2008 (CST)