Sloan-Kettering has a interesting page on acupuncture with many references. You do have to sign a disclaimer to access the page but that takes just a click.
Here is a excerpt copied from their site:
Acupuncture, a component of Traditional Chinese Medicine, originated more than 2,000 years ago. Treatment involves stimulation of one or more predetermined points on the body with needles, heat (moxibustion), pressure (acupressure), or electricity for therapeutic effect.
A Centers for Disease Control (CDC) report indicated that more than 8 million Americans use acupuncture to treat different ailments. Data from clinical trials support use of acupuncture for chronic headache (2) (3) (20), but there was no difference between true and sham acupuncture treatments; the treatments were, however, more effective compared to a no acupuncture control (18). Acupuncture is beneficial for osteoarthritis of knee (16) (23) (27), chronic mechanical neck pain (17), and symptoms associated with fibromyalgia (22). It was also superior to physical therapy (21) in treating patients with low back pain compared to usual care (24) (36) and was cost effective (25). Acupuncture also reduced high blood pressure (29); and the severity of hot flashes in postmenopausal women (26) but was ineffective in treating major depressive disorder (28). In addition, studies show benefits of acupuncture for peripheral neuropathy (30), including that associated with diabetes (31), AIDS (32) (33), and chemotherapy (34).
Acupuncture also improved reproductive outcomes in women following in vitro fertilization (37) (38) (39) (40) (41), reduced symptoms of chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain (43), and decreased procedural anxiety in patients undergoing lithotripsy (44).
http://www.mskcc.org/mskcc/html/69111.cfm
This link takes you to the rest of the acupuncture info:
http://snipurl.com/3qig1
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