Who invented acupuncture?

Origin of Acupuncture Acupuncture medicine was first seen more than 2,000 years ago in the book "Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine". The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine refers to the art of moxibustion when it says, "When the cold is hidden and the disease is full of life, its treatment should be moxibustion," which describes in detail the shape of the nine needles and extensively describes the theories and techniques of acupuncture. For more than two thousand years, acupuncture has been popular in China and spread to the world. And the appearance of acupuncture is even earlier. In ancient times, people accidentally by some sharp and hard objects, such as stones, thorns, etc. collided with a certain part of the body surface, there will be an unexpected phenomenon of pain being 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 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 certain part of the body of the disease by the fire burning, baking and can be relieved or lifted, and then learned to use animal skin or bark wrapped in hot stones, sand for localized 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. "Acupuncture and pricked" gradually developed into needle, "hot and ironed" gradually developed into moxibustion, which is the predecessor of acupuncture and moxibustion therapy. History of Acupuncture According to the ancient literature "Classic of Mountains and Seas" and "Nei Jing", there is a record of "stone" piercing the carbuncle, as well as the "Yu Zi": "seven years of illness, seek three years of Ai", and then according to the historical artifacts unearthed in recent years in various parts of China to prove that the "Acupuncture and Moxibustion Therapy". Based on the historical artifacts excavated in recent years, the origin of "acupuncture therapy" may have been in the Stone Age. Acupuncture is an ancient and marvelous science. As early as the 6th century A.D., acupuncture began to spread abroad. At present, in Asia, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Latin America and other countries and regions have more than 120 countries and regions for the application of acupuncture for the people of their own treatment, many countries have also set up acupuncture academic organizations, acupuncture educational institutions and research institutions, the famous University of Paris School of Medicine on the opening of acupuncture courses. 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 medicine.