What is the difference between acupressure and acupuncture?

The difference between them is that acupressure uses finger pressure atop the skin to stimulate acupoints whereas acupuncture uses thin needles that are inserted into the body to stimulate the acupoints.Acupressure and acupuncture are the same in that both are the ancient Oriental medicine art that works with Qi and accessing the bodys internal pharmacy. They evolved from the same roots as shiatsu.  more