On Thursday afternoons the Yin Yang House on Frazier Avenue is full of people looking for a last resort.
As a Chinese lullaby plays in the background, about 10 people wait in line for treatment in the same room where other patients are being treated. Thin, silver acupuncture needles hang from people's hands and knees and feet; they protrude from foreheads.
A wiry man with cancer holds his head between his hands while his wife rubs his back. There is a young woman with migraines and painful monthly periods, a 40-something man with back troubles.
Jennifer Rintelman, 29, comes every week hoping the tiny needles will stimulate her body to get pregnant. She has been trying for three years. The owner of the Yin Yang House, Chad Dupuis, has a wall of baby pictures that Rintelman said represent his success stories. She stares at them for hope.
