The Origin of Acupuncture and Moxibustion

Acupuncture and moxibustion therapy was first seen in the book "Huangdi Neijing", which came out in the Warring States period. The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine (HUNDI NEIJING), which says: "When the cold is hidden and full of disease, its treatment should be moxibustion", refers to the art of moxibustion, in which the shape of nine needles is described in detail, and the theory and techniques of acupuncture are extensively documented. For more than two thousand years, acupuncture has been popular in China and spread to the world. And acupuncture appeared even earlier.

In ancient times, people were accidentally hit by some sharp and hard objects, such as stones, thorns, etc. on the surface of the body of a certain part of the phenomenon, there will be an unexpected pain was alleviated. Ancient people began to consciously use some sharp stones to stab some parts of the body or artificially puncture the body to make it bleed, in order to alleviate the pain. People have mastered the digging, grinding technology, able to produce some relatively delicate, suitable for piercing the body to treat diseases of stone tools, this stone is the oldest medical tool acupuncture stone. This stone tool is the oldest medical tool, the stone acupuncture stone. People use the stone acupuncture stone into a certain part of the body to treat diseases. Acupuncture stone at that time also more commonly used in surgical purulent infections of the incision and drainage of pus, so also known as needle stone or stone. The Shanhaijing (Classic of Mountains and Seas), which states that there is a stone like jade that can be used as a needle, is an early record of stone needles. China has found stone acupuncture 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 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 local hot ironing, and gradually developed to ignite the branches or hay baking to treat the disease. After a long period of searching, 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.

"Counseling and stabbing" gradually developed into acupuncture, "hot and ironing" gradually developed into moxibustion, which is the predecessor of acupuncture and moxibustion therapy.

The "needle" of the needle, the traditional form of "needle", the word from the gold from the salty, "gold" means "metal", such as gold, silver and other metals. "Jin" means "metal", such as gold, silver, bronze and other materials, "Xian" means "sour" (see the interactive encyclopedia article "Xian"). The combination of "gold" and "salty" means "an instrument that produces a sour feeling". Do not rule out the possibility that the ancients used fried bamboo needles as disposable needles, this bamboo needle called "Pro", its glyphs in the "salty", is still the meaning of "sour".