Having worked across several clinics, I started noticing patterns. Most first time acupuncture patients come in looking for one of two things — pain relief or relaxation. But acupuncture is so much more than either of those things. New patients almost always arrive with the same three questions: What is acupuncture? How does it work? And what is it actually good for? Those three questions became the foundation of a three level clinical framework — Earth, Human, and Heaven — designed to answer all three at once. Here is how it breaks down.