What is Chinese acupuncture?

Chinese acupuncture is a summary of the experience of our people in the long-term fight against disease, and its formation has gone through a long process. The origin of acupuncture and moxibustion is thought to be earlier than drugs, this conclusion may be a kind of subjective imagination deduction, it is difficult to have a definite basis. Needle or moxibustion medical treatment, need to use medical tools, and need to acupuncture a certain part of the human body, it should be said that it is more difficult than the accumulation of knowledge of drugs. The development of acupuncture tools, generally there is such a process, that is, acupuncture stone → Pro stone → Pro → (hydrazinium) → needle. In this way, the development of its quality improvement seems to be by acupuncture stone and stone needles, bamboo needles wood thorns, bone needles, bronze needles, iron needles, gold and silver needles ...... and so on. Acupuncture stone in ancient times is not only used to stab the disease, and used for surgical septic infection cut open pus more likely. Jin Dynasty Guo Pu note "Classic of Mountains and Seas - Dongshan Jing" of the stone said: "can be for the mainstay needle, treatment of carbuncles and swellings." Hao Yi line of the Qing Dynasty that "when the stone for the wrong word acupuncture, can be acupuncture is also" "Shuowen Jiezi" note: "acupuncture, to stone prick disease also." It can be seen, acupuncture in ancient times, one is the treatment of purulent infections of abscesses; one is to stone the disease, may include acupuncture acupuncture points within the acupuncture therapy.

Most modern scholars believe that the stone is the mother of the needle, then acupuncture originated in the stone should be justified. This is not only from the literature to find out a lot of basis, in the excavation of primitive society, neolithic sites there are a lot of stone existence, China's archaeological excavations, primitive society, stone needles, bone needles, bronze needles and so on more and more, many of the shape is also largely similar to the discussion of the origins of acupuncture has added valuable information. As for the traditional view, such as the Road History "Fuyi ...... and make nine needles". Obviously, the production of nine needles when late in the production of needles, even later than the stone of the production and application, if Fuyi nine needles of the story has its certain authenticity, then Fuyi era is equivalent to the primitive society of the caveman period, stone used for surgical, acupuncture and moxibustion when at least more than 10,000 years of history.

Acupuncture therapy in addition to acupuncture therapy, moxibustion therapy, moxibustion origin is also very interesting, but from the literature and archaeological excavations have not been able to get a more accurate evidence, and therefore people's research can only be out of an inference. For example: people think that the modern use of moxa made of moxa cones or moxa sticks, ignited to bake or burning smoked human body of certain points to treat a disease, both with fire, moxa fire treatment, in order to test its earliest origins, they thought of the primitive people with fire, artificial fire method, will be hot pebbles ironing body to drive away the cold, and ironing hot pebbles in a certain part of the body of the experience of some kind of discomfort is more effective and accumulated, that is, from which the therapy was slowly born. Although this inference may not be completely consistent with the historical reality, but not without a certain degree of scientific reasoning. The Su Wen - different method of Fang Yi Theory" in the discussion of the origin of moxibustion, there is such a passage, that is: "the North, ...... real high Lingju, wind cold ice cold, its wild and milk food. Hidden cold born full of disease, its treatment should be moxibustion. Therefore, moxibustion, also from the north." More than two thousand years ago, the medical doctors of this understanding of its basis is not known, at least people and medical practitioners of the historical legends passed on by word of mouth and such records as the basis. Moxibustion began when primitive man took fire with fire field is expanding, I am afraid there is no great deviation.