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Chinese acupuncture
Meng Yonghong
China-informations.com

A single branch in practice of Chinese traditional medicine,acupuncture, or zhenjiu in Chinese language, is one of the most effective methods to cure the diseases. Zhen means the insertion of needles in the points of acupuncture located in all the bodies in order to treat the evils from which the patient suffers. Jiu means the moxa which uses the heat produced while burning directly or indirectly the armoise, a Chinese grass which excites the points of acupuncture during the treatment. Integral part of Chinese traditional medicine, the theory of acupuncture was born following accumulation from the experiments from the men to fight against nature and the diseases and became increasingly mature as the practice developed. Acupuncture was thus never discovered by only one person at one definite time. DĄjį, at the stone age, the men who had pains in the hands were seen that their suffering was attenuated when stones supported the painful parts accidentally. Consequently, of the stones were deliberately cut at a peak to mass certain parts of the body with an aim of curing diseases but also of maintaining a good health by balancing the flow of blood and vital energy. During the iron age, the stones were replaced by metal needles, contributing to the great advance of acupuncture. One uses today needles out of gold, silver or copper or manufactured in nonoxydable metals.

The moxa goes up with the use of fire by the human beings. The women who made the kitchen discovered that their pains disappeared when embers had suddenly fallen on the parts of the body concerned. The man thus started to burn armoise to be delivered his pains. To stimulate the painful part by heat and to use for that of aromatic herbs maintain in good health.

How acupuncture can cure diseases? According to Chinese traditional philosophy, any object of the universe is the result of a balance and an opposition between the yin and the yang. The disease thus results from an imbalance between the two parts. While inserting fine needles in the channels of energy, an acupunctor can stimulate the painful parts of the body to restore natural balance.

According to the scientists, the insertion of the needles of acupuncture can excite the brain which will produce endorphins releasing of the suffering. Acupuncture does not encourage only the capacity of people to fight against their own diseases, but also affects the nervous system, readjusts the blood pressure, the rate/rhythm of the pulse, the temperature, perspiration as well as many other physiological reactions.

Thus, acupuncture on the level of the ear is a therapy used to help doped to detoxicate itself. After the treatment, the majority of the ...