Key legal question
Whether needle acupuncture may be practiced independently by medical auxiliaries under § 33 and § 41 Sanitary Regulation.
Extracted holding
Needle acupuncture is treated as a bloodletting-type intervention and is therefore reserved to licensed physicians; medical auxiliaries may not perform it independently.
Extracted reasoning
The court accepted the authority's view that acupuncture involves puncturing the body with needles, with recognized infection and injury risks, and fits the prohibition of 'bloody interventions' under § 41 San Vo. This matches the prevailing practice in most Swiss cantons.