Acupuncture: From Yellow Emperor to Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
Acupuncture, which originated in China more than five thousand years ago, was only recently rediscovered by the West, and is now one of the most vital and "modern" of all areas of complementary and alternative medicine. Acupuncture is now widely used in the United States as a primary treatment for chronic pain, and is a very popular complementary therapy for substance abuse recovery, nausea, cancer, AIDS, immune disorders, stroke, and many other conditions.
A major component of traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture was first codified as early as A.D. 25, and was described in the ancient text The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine. Use of acupuncture gradually spread to the entire Asian continent, and it was introduced to Europe by early traders and missionaries. Europeans brought the practice to America in the early 1800s, and it was also used extensively in the mid-1800s by Asian-American immigrants. In the late 1800s, it was credited by Sir William Osler, the "father of modern medicine," as the best treatment for low back pain. However, acupuncture was not accepted by many members of the modern American medical community until the 1970s, when the United States normalized relations with China. By 1998, over one million Americans annually were being treated with acupuncture, by some ten thousand licensed acupuncturists.
Despite its long history, however, no one is certain how acupuncture works. Acupuncture's healin.by Dr. Kenneth R. Pelletir http://www.drpelletier.com/TBAM/excerpts/002-Acupuncture_From.html
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