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Acupuncture therapy though useful in many medical conditions is a time spending treatment.Patient compliance plays a major role in the success of any treatment.Standard Acupuncture treatment includes 20-30 sessions per month where patient has to take treatment for 15-20 days in a month.In the changing world it is difficult for people to make up time for such treatments.Thus a ill patient gets rid of the symptoms with Acupuncture and further follow-ups are avoided due to shortage of time.To improve the compliance and results catgut embedding technique has proven beneficial and convenient to the patients.The modem day surgical sutures are hypo allergic and when used with proper aseptic precautions is safe and effective.The concept is to put catgut in situ like we put needle in situ during an Acupuncture treatment.Small pieces of catgut are implanted at the selected points.The types of implanting catgut have been changed day by day after considering the limitations and benefits of various techniques.To implant catgut and tie a knot remained standard technique for many years.This technique looked crude, cosmetically less acceptable and with major chances of sepsis.The newly adopted techniques in the form of pinching and releasing, Double side puncture without pinching, Single side puncture, Dipping methods are safe, cosmetically perfect and with minimum chances of sepsis.These techniques along with 4-5 days of Acupuncture sessions in a course can give similar to more improved results than the conventional methods.