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Have you completed the reading passage? Now answer these questions about Alternative Medicine:

1. What do they use to stimulate the skin during acupuncture?
   • pain
   • needles
   • nausea
   Acupuncture involves inserting needles into different points in the body.
2. What does acupuncture help reduce the feeling of?
   • recover
   • stimulation
   • sickness
    Acupuncture is used to reduce the feeling of nausea.
3. How do chiropractors treat back and neck pain?
   • They manipulate the spine.
   • They massage the skeleton.
   • The change your lifestyle
   Chiropractic treatment includes manipulating the spine to treat back pain and neck pain.
4. Why are small white homoeopathic tablets given to patients?
   • They cause symptoms.
   • They dilute nature.
   • They are a remedy.
   These remedies are given to people in the form of small white tablets.
5. Why are people put into a trance during hypnotherapy?
   • So they can be given suggestions.
   • Because they are very tired.
   • So they can treat people.
   While patients are hypnotised they are given suggestions.
6. Why is massage therapy used to improve health?
   
   • It can help people return to full health.
   • It doesn't make you feel relaxed.
   • Many people need deep tissue.
   Massage is a useful form of therapy that can help people heal.
7. Why is pressure applied to the feet and hands during reflexology?
   
   • They are the places that need treatment.
   • The pressure can affect how the patient relaxes.
   • These parts of the body correspond to other parts of the body.
   Different parts of the hands and feet correspond to other areas of the body.
8. Which of these treatments is said to be the best for neck pain?
   • Acupuncture
   • Homoeopathy
   • Chiropractic
   Chiropractic treatment is used to treat headaches, back pain and neck pain.
9. Which of these treatments is said to make people feel better after surgery?
   • Hypnotherapy
   • Massage Therapy
   • Acupuncture
   Acupuncture is used to help patients recover and reduce the feelings of nausea after operations (surgery).
10. Which of these treatments involves patients taking a tablet?
    • Homoeopathy
    • Reflexology
    • Acupuncture
    Homoeopathic remedies are given to people in the form of small white tablets.