The acupuncture

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Acupuncture is derived from the Latin word acus, meaning "needle" and pungere, meaning "prick". In Chinese, acupuncture is called ZhenJui (Zhen means the insertion of needles on the specific points on the human body and Jui means the usage of the heat create while the artemisia (aromatic grass) is burning). The traditional acupuncture is a therapeutic art that set its diagnostic and therapeutic analysis on an energetic sight called Taoism of the Man and of the universe. It is an Asian therapy. The principal characteristic is a treatment by needles implantation into different and specific points on the body that is called meridian. It involves stimulation of some energetic circuits of the body to erase the imbalances that cause the medical problems. In fact, the acupunctural treatment consists in the re-establishment of the balance on one hand between different organs of the human body and on the other hand between the organism and the environment.

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[...] The meridians There are twelve main meridians. They begin (or end) at the end of a finger (or of a toe). They get grow since their source (extremity of a finger) towards the center of the body. They exist numerous secondary meridians, they feed of their energy the flesh, the muscles, the internal organs and the totality of the body. The median lines of the body are crossed by two particular meridians, the one previous says "conception", the other one posterior says "governor". [...]

[...] In addition, many studies and research have indeed found acupuncture to be more effective than a placebo and effective in treating chronic conditions. Recent studies have also shed light on possible mechanisms of acupuncture. The acupuncture does not look after a disease but after a person Bibliography and webography Bibliography * Acupuncture: Les points essentiels by Philippe Sionneau Edition Guy Trédaniel * L'acupuncture pratiquée en Chine by Philippe Sionneau Edition Guy Trédaniel * Les principes fondamentaux de la médecine chinoise by Giovanni Maciocia (Auteur), Sylviane Burner (Traduction) Edition Elsevier * Acupuncture» by A. [...]

[...] The most technological version implements a laser beam (laser puncture). We can also complete the pose of needles by the passage of an electric current of low voltage and of weak frequency, but then we go out of the acupuncture to enter the electro stimulation, what is another thing. In fact in the modern China, the acupuncture continues to be used, for economic reasons, but without worrying about its theoretical bases. In other words, it means that while maintaining intact the dogma of the efficiency of the acupuncture, the Chinese practitioners reject as absurd the traditional explanations. [...]

[...] This theory explains the seasonal pathologies. The scientific development Because of the scientific progress, it is difficult to elaborate a modern theory of the traditional practice of the acupuncture based on rational elements. Nevertheless, it is possible to demonstrate that to pay some attention for one person cheek on his general state, even if it does not really establish a medical act. The physiological effects The concept of meridian is an empirical notion, established when we knew only little the functioning of the body. [...]

[...] The acupuncture is a “cure art”. During our development on the acupuncture, we shall make a return on its history and also on its origins then we shall see the techniques and principles of acupuncture from a point of view of the traditional theory, the scientific evaluation and the various risks. To end we shall see that the acupuncture cannot cure everything. History and Origins The first imprint of the Chinese acupuncture The first marks could date the stony age, where men who had pains in hands had realized that their pain was calmed when stones supported accidentally the painful parts. [...]