Hi Willow - you may have seen I have also done a post on acupuncture as this has been recommended to me for a whole range of reasons - back pain and app reduces labour times etc...
Anyway I havent had a lot of responses (yet :-)) but I have done some research and I think as long as you are going to someone reputable you should be ok, there are some points they use for inducing labour and others for other symptoms and treatments. That said I want to do some more research too before I go...
A good friend of mine is a chinese medicine practioner and acupuncturist (as well as western medical quals) - i would go to her but she is in Melb.. anyway I am speaking to her later and planned to ask what she would recomment so I will let you know what she says too.
I want to go now for this excruciating back pain I have and then later for internal relaxation and hopefully shorter labour...