You have a point, however, I am a former medical professional, with years of experience with needles, and I am a current practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine in the form of gua sha. As long as I stick to using it on myself, stay away from the spine and other problematic areas, and follow clean needle protocols, everything will be perfectly safe.

This is what the Chinese believe about gua sha:

Gua sha (Chinese: 刮痧), or kerokan (in Indonesia), is a traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) practice in which a tool is used to scrape people's skin in order to produce light petechiae. Practitioners believe that gua sha releases unhealthy bodily matter from blood stasis within sore, tired, stiff or injured muscle areas to stimulate new oxygenated blood flow to the areas, thus promoting metabolic cell repair, regeneration, healing and recovery

That last part I agree with, but it's benefit comes not from woo woo Chinese medicine, or causing petechiae (you should not do that, that's bad gua sha imo), it's because of its a deep tissue massage. The tools let you get to places and in ways you cannot without them.

Similarly I think there may be benefit to acupuncture that is not because you're manipulating the body's Chi energy (woo woo), but because the irritation of the needle stimulates healing. That idea of using the body itself, particularly irritants, to promote healing is the idea behind some cutting edge medicine techniques today. And also it was used in ancient times, as tattoos were once used to treat pain. This seems to be a rediscovering of ancient technique.

I believe there's benefit to Chinese medicine but they got the Why of it wrong, and that's corrupted the practices.

In essence, I am not really doing acupuncture at all, but recreating a technique I suspect was the basis for acupuncture.