Why is acupuncture a treasure of China for more than 4000 years?

Acupuncture is a summary of our people's long-term experience in fighting diseases, and its formation has gone through a long process. The predecessor of acupuncture is "whipping", and the main tool of whipping is Bian Shi, which sprouted in the Neolithic Age 10,000 to 4,000 years ago. In the Qin and Han dynasties, needles have gradually developed from stone needles, bone needles and bamboo needles to metal needles. The development of metal needle has gone through the stages of copper, iron, silver, alloy and stainless steel needle. The reform of acupuncture has expanded the scope of acupuncture treatment, improved the therapeutic effect and promoted the development of acupuncture.

With the continuous accumulation of medical experience, many specific acupoints that can treat some diseases have been gradually discovered, so that they have been gradually located and named since the earliest "pain is thirty"; On the basis of the increasing number of acupoints, according to the main functions of acupoints, combined with acupuncture effect and ancient anatomical knowledge, ancient doctors found and realized that the human body has a complete meridian system structure. Through continuous summary and practice, the theory of acupoints and meridians is systematized in theory, forming the theory of meridians. The formation of meridian theory and other TCM theories makes acupuncture an independent subject of TCM.

Huangdi Neijing is the earliest extant medical classic in China. It comprehensively and systematically expounds the Yin and Yang, five elements, acupoints of zang-fu organs, meridians, diagnosis and pathogenesis, treatment principles, acupuncture methods, indications and contraindications. Among them, the acupuncture content discussed in Lingshu is particularly detailed, so it is called Acupuncture Classic. Huangdi Neijing laid a solid theoretical foundation for the development of acupuncture. "Difficult Classic" supplements the "Internal Classic" in the aspects of meridians, acupoints and acupuncture. Treatise on Febrile Diseases by Zhang Zhongjing, a famous physician in the Eastern Han Dynasty, successfully incorporated acupuncture and acupuncture combined with medicine into the system of syndrome differentiation and treatment, which raised the clinical treatment of acupuncture to a new level. Huangfu Mi's Jin Dynasty Acupuncture Classic is the first monograph on acupuncture in China, and it is also a summary of acupuncture medicine after Huangdi Neijing, which plays a connecting role in the history of acupuncture development. In the Tang Dynasty, Sun Simiao invented the same-body-inch acupoint selection method in Qianjin Fang Yao, which affirmed the function of Ashi acupoint. According to the Records of Hundred Officials in the Book of Tang Dynasty, in the ninth year of Tang Gaozu Wude (626), the national medical teaching institution "Taiyi Department" had doctors, acupuncturists and medical assistants, specializing in acupuncture teaching and medical work. In the Song Dynasty, Wang compiled the Illustration of Acupuncture and Moxibustion on Acupoints of Newly Cast Copper Man, and made two models of acupuncture and moxibustion bronze men, which were the earliest three-dimensional acupuncture models in the world and pioneered the intuitive teaching of acupuncture models. The Ming Dynasty witnessed the prosperity and development of acupuncture, and there were many acupuncture works, among which Acupuncture Dacheng was a pearl. This is written by Yang Jizhou on the basis of his heirloom The Mystery of Health Acupuncture, which collects classic works, the essence of doctors in past dynasties and my own experience. This book is another summative acupuncture work after the Classic of Acupuncture and Moxibustion A and B, and it is still one of acupuncture clinical reference books. During the period from the Opium War to 100 of the Republic of China, due to the discrimination and strangulation of reactionary rulers and imperialist forces invading China, acupuncture gradually declined and was only used by the people.

1949 after the establishment of People's Republic of China (PRC), it promoted the revival and prosperity of acupuncture and moxibustion medicine. Acupuncture education has also developed rapidly. In order to facilitate academic exchanges, the Chinese Acupuncture Society was established in 1979. Clinically, acupuncture has a good and effective effect on many diseases, such as internal and external diseases, gynecology and pediatrics 100, especially on cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, biliary calculi, bacillary dysentery, mammary gland hyperplasia and other diseases, and has made outstanding achievements. From 65438 to 0958, acupuncture anesthesia began to be used in clinic, which added new contents to anesthesia methods and promoted the in-depth study of acupuncture medicine. Therefore, the research work of acupuncture has also developed from the summary of clinical treatment experience to experimental research, from observing the influence of acupuncture on the functions of various organs to the study of acupuncture anesthesia and acupuncture analgesia mechanism, and has made new progress in the study of meridian phenomena and meridian essence. In recent years, the research of acupuncture and massage has also made gratifying achievements.

Acupuncture spread eastward to Korea, Japan and other countries during the Southern and Northern Dynasties. 13 century ago, it gradually moved westward through the "Silk Road", which had a certain influence on Arab medicine. In recent years, there has been an enduring "acupuncture fever" in the world. 1984, Nakajima Hiroshi, an official of the World Health Organization (WHO), announced: "Acupuncture medicine has become a new medical discipline in the world." And established international acupuncture training centers in Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing and other places. The Preparatory Committee of the World Federation of Acupuncture Societies was established in August 1984, and the inaugural meeting was held in China in October 1987 165438/kloc-0. Traditional acupuncture therapy has gone to the world and made new and greater contributions to human health care.