Chinese acupuncture culture knowledge?

History and Culture of Acupuncture and Moxibustion Therapy

Acupuncture and Moxibustion consists of "needles" and "moxibustion", which is one of the important parts of Chinese medicine, and its content includes the theory of acupuncture and moxibustion, acupoints, acupuncture and moxibustion technology, and the related apparatus, in the process of formation, application and development. In the process of formation, application and development, it has distinctive cultural and regional characteristics of the Chinese nation, and is a valuable heritage based on the cultural and scientific traditions of the Chinese nation.

Origins

Acupuncture and moxibustion were first described in the Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine (HUNDI-MEI-CHING) more than 2,000 years ago. 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, moxibustion is appropriate for its treatment", which describes in detail the shape of the nine needles and extensively describes the theory 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 part of the body surface, there will be an unexpected pain was alleviated phenomenon. 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 reduce 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 the later 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 has the effect of warm through the meridian of moxa leaves as the main material of moxibustion, in the surface of the local warm stimulation, so that the moxibustion and acupuncture, as an important method of prevention and treatment of disease. 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 stabbing" gradually developed into acupuncture, "hot and ironing" gradually developed into moxibustion, which is the predecessor of acupuncture and moxibustion therapy.

The history of acupuncture

According to the ancient literature "Classic of the Mountains and the Sea" and "Nei Jing", there is a "stone" piercing the carbuncle records, as well as the "Yu Zi": "seven years of disease, three years of Ai," according to the statement, and then according to the recent years in various parts of our country According to the historical artifacts excavated in recent years in various parts of China, the origin of "acupuncture therapy" may be in the Stone Age.

Acupuncture is an ancient and magical science. As early as the 6th century AD, acupuncture began to spread abroad. At present, in Asia, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Latin America and so on there have been more than 120 countries and regions applying acupuncture for the people of their own treatment, many countries have also set up acupuncture academic groups, acupuncture educational institutions and research institutions, the famous University of Paris School of Medicine on the opening of acupuncture classes. 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 of indications. 1987, the World Federation of Acupuncture and Moxibustion was formally established in Beijing, acupuncture and moxibustion as a world of general medical status in the world medical forest can be established.

Two thousand five hundred years ago, China gave birth to the first medical masterpiece, the Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine (HUNDI), in which an important concept runs through the entire book, that is, meridians. Meridian is the general name of the meridians and veins, the ancients found that the human body has a number of routes throughout the body, called the meridians; and found that there are some branches of these major trunk lines, in the branches of the branches on the smaller branches, the ancients said that these branches for the complex veins, the "veins" is the structure of the concept of the umbrella.

With the development of smelting technology, people made metal needles, called micro-needles, and used them to treat the meridians. The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine is divided into two books, one of which is called the Ling Shu Jing, also known as the Needle Jing, which is a work devoted to the treatment of the meridians with microneedles. The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine systematically summarizes the meridians and adds new concepts to the meridians, such as collateral veins, meridians, meridian tendons, skin, and odd meridians, which ****together comprise the meridian system, making it the most important physiological structure of the human body in the minds of the ancients. Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine also explains the functions of the meridians, namely, the operation of qi and blood, balancing yin and yang, moistening the tendons and bones, slippery joints, contacting the internal organs and the surface and up and down, as well as the transmission of diseases and evils, and so on. The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine's understanding of the meridian system and its function is mainly from long-term clinical observation, but also contains some reasoning and analysis of the results of the description of the analogies and analogies.

Acupuncture and moxibustion is an important part of acupuncture and moxibustion medicine, and it is a basic skill that must be mastered in the clinical treatment of acupuncture and moxibustion diseases. Generations of acupuncturists in the long-term medical practice, accumulated a wealth of clinical experience and theoretical knowledge, is the content of acupuncture and moxibustion method is constantly enriched, the theory of continuous improvement, for the development of the discipline has laid a theoretical and practical foundation.