The article by Woolf et al¹ yields plenty of fascinating information. I was particularly interested to see the national differences in recommendations for acupuncture or herbal medicine (incidentally, herbal treatments are pharmacological by nature despite the affirmation to the contrary in fig 1 of the article). Throughout Europe, few doctors issue such recommendations, despite the fact that the evidence for both approaches is perhaps not conclusive but encouraging.² Generally, acupuncture …