In ancient times, people were accidentally hit by some sharp and hard objects, such as stones, thorns, etc. on the surface of the body of a certain part of the phenomenon, there will be an unexpected pain was alleviated. Ancient people began to consciously use some sharp stones to stab certain parts of the body or artificially puncture the body to make it bleed, in order to alleviate the pain. Ancient books have repeatedly mentioned that the primitive tool for needling was a stone needle, called a stone acupuncture. This stone appeared about 8,000 to 4,000 years ago in the Neolithic era, equivalent to the late clan communal system, people have mastered the digging, grinding technology, able to produce some relatively delicate, suitable for piercing the body to treat diseases of the stone tool, this stone is the oldest medical tool stone. People used "stone" to stab a certain part of the body to treat diseases. At that time, the stone was also more commonly used in surgical septic infections of the incision and drainage of pus, so it is also known as the needle stone or stone. The Shanhaijing (Classic of Mountains and Seas), which says: "There is a stone like jade, which can be used as a needle", is an early record of stone needles. In China, stone acupuncture has been found in archaeology. It can be said that acupuncture stone is the foundation and predecessor of later generations of knife and needle tools.
Moxibustion arose after the discovery and use of fire. In the process of using fire, people found that a part of the body of the disease by the fire burning, baking and can be relieved or lifted, and then learn to use animal skin or bark wrapped in hot stones, sand for local hot ironing, and gradually develop the ignition of twigs or hay baking to treat the disease. After a long period of exploration, choose the easy to burn and have the effect of warm through the meridians as the main material of moxibustion, localized on the surface of the body for warm stimulation, so that moxibustion and acupuncture, as an important method of disease prevention and treatment. Because of the easy to burn, fragrant odor, rich resources, easy to process storage and other characteristics, and thus later became the most important raw materials for moxibustion.
"Counseling and stabbing" gradually developed into acupuncture, "hot and ironing" gradually developed into moxibustion, which is the predecessor of acupuncture and moxibustion therapy.
The history of acupuncture
According to the ancient literature "Classic of the Mountains and the Sea" and "Nei Jing", it is useful to use "stone" to puncture the carbuncle records, as well as the "Yu Zi": "seven years of disease, seek three years of Ai," according to the statement, and then according to the recent years in various parts of our country Based on the historical artifacts excavated in recent years in various parts of China, we can prove that the origin of "acupuncture and moxibustion therapy" may be in the Stone Age.
Acupuncture is an ancient and miraculous science. As early as the 6th century AD, acupuncture began to spread abroad. At present, in Asia, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Latin America and so on there have been more than 120 countries and regions applying acupuncture for their own people to cure the disease, many countries have also set up acupuncture academic societies, acupuncture educational institutions and research institutes, the famous University of Paris School of Medicine on the opening of acupuncture classes. It is reported that acupuncture treatment is effective in 307 kinds of diseases, of which more than 100 kinds of significant effect. 1980, the United Nations World Health Organization put forward 43 kinds of recommended acupuncture treatment indications. 1987, the World Federation of Acupuncture and Moxibustion was formally established in Beijing, acupuncture and moxibustion as a universal medical status in the world to be established in the world of medical forests.