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An overview of the acupuncture points (including the absolute frequency numbers and percentage scores) that were used during the 12 weekly acupuncture treatments of our 44-year-old female outpatient suffering from chronic schizophrenia and sleep disorders.
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Then, after careful diagnosis by a licensed Oriental medical practitioner with more than five years of clinical experience, the patient received individualized manual acupuncture in accordance with traditional Chinese medicine principles. Single-use stainless-steel needles (Type: AcuPro C, Wujiang City Cloud & Dragon Medical Device Co., Ltd., China) were used. The patient was treated weekly in the clinic for twelve consecutive acupuncture treatments, and each acupuncture treatment lasted about 60 minutes (for a detailed overview of the exact acupuncture points and frequency that were used during the 12 weekly acupuncture treatments, we refer the reader to Figure 1).