Chinese medicine looks at pain in a completely different way than western medicine. Their treatments with acupuncture, herbs, massage, and exercise work very well, especially on nerve types of pain like sciatica. Their methods also work, in general, on the things western medicine has problems with. I have two sisters in law that get acupuncture for fibromyalgia, another one who takes Chinese herbs for hormone imbalance, and I know two people who get acupuncture for migraines and hyperthyroid problems. They don't just treat pain, but they are good at treating it.