Alternative Medicine. Acupuncture
There is an ancient Chinese legend tells that 5,000 years ago, a Chinese general, on the eve of the decisive battle, was suffering from lower back pain. The pain was so intense that it gave in the leg. In our time, this disease is called the inflammation of the sciatic nerve. During the battle, enemy’s arrow pierced into the general’s Achilles tendon. To his unutterable surprise, the pain instantly disappeared. Thinking commander connected these two facts together. He found a man who suffered from the same symptoms, and stabbed him in the same point. The man, who suffered several days of terrible pain, immediately felt relieved and cured. This is how acupuncture works.
Today acupuncture is actively used not only in the East, but also in countries all around the world. There are 650 points in the human body, acting on which, the doctor may regulate vital energy. Some points tone the body, the others transfer the energy from one meridian of the human body to another.
Meridian is the imaginary line on the human body. It is assumed that they relate to internal organs, although it is completely different from that anatomy teaches, meridians are called “yin yang lines”. Acupuncture was banned in China by the Emperor in 1822, because it was a serious obstacle to progress in traditional medicine.
The practice of acupuncture was revived only for political reasons by Chairman Mao as a cheap form of anesthesia. Acupuncture has always been a mystery to the West, but the mystery disappears when we found that patients were carefully selected and that only 10-15% of these carefully selected patients were considered appropriate for the procedure of acupuncture.
Information about using acupuncture as an anesthetic disappears in the late 70′s. In 1980, two Chinese professors announced that acupuncture is a myth and a political hoax.
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