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Then they stuck more needles in me.
For aficionados of acupuncture, this is old hat. According to the tenets of Chinese medicine, tapping skinny needles into your pressure points is an age-old way of rebalancing the body and restoring, or ensuring, general health.
For the Frugal Traveler, however, this was entirely new. And not because I don’t trust non-Western medicine, or because my body never needed rebalancing. It was mostly because such treatments — which I lump together with massages and spas — have always seemed needlessly expensive. Sure, I’ve had worthy spa treatments in Asia (shiatsu in Saigon, Thai massage in Bangkok), but back home in New York City I never even considered making an appointment, or even ducking into one of the cheap but undifferentiated Tui Na massage parlors in Chinatown.

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