Acupuncture: An Extraordinary Healing Way Acupuncture is often used in conjunction with moxibustion in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). The two techniques are so closely related that they are referred to in Chinese with one word , zhenji...

The spread of acupuncture to other countries probably started with Japan in the third century BC, when Xu Fu, a Daoist with medical knowledge, took seeds, plants and medical herbs along with three thousand Chinese children, with him to Japa...

A true history of acupuncture By David Ramey, Paul D Buell Focus Altern Complement Ther 2004; 9 : 26973 Acupuncture in China The chronology of acupuncture is fairly well established, albeit along a somewhat uneven timeline. Claims that acup...

Now, Let Me Tell You About My Appendectomy in Peking By James Reston New York Times, Monday July 26, 1971 Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine has been practiced in North America ever since the first immigrants came to the continent. It would...

The history of acupuncture in the United States is long and storied. Acupuncture has attained higher states in the field of good health and fitness. It is widely recognized by most people, physicians and medical field experts across the glo...

Ear acupuncture is the stimulation of acupuncture points on the external ear surface for the diagnosis and treatment of health conditions in other parts of the body. It is quite clear that there are some ancient Chinese manuscripts that men...

In a club room in Westminster, about a mile away from the great teaching hospitals of central London, the London Medical Society a body of vaguely reform-minded doctors, gentlemen all was settling into post-prandial discussion over a few de...

Ancient Medical Relics of Mawangdui Introduction In late 1973, a number of ancient documents concerning early Chinese history, philosophy, geography, military affairs, astronomy, divination, and medicine were excavated from Grave No. 3 at M...

Acupuncture: Over 1500 years of globalization The worldwide dissemination of acupuncture can be divided into four stages. Acupuncture has spread to at least 140 countries and areas to date. First Stage: By around the 6 th century AD, acupun...

Acupuncture: A true symbol of traditional Chinese culture The central principle of acupuncture calls for needling the lower to cure the upper, and treating the exterior to cure the interior. The opposite of this holistic principle would be...