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by Muna wa Wanjiru, Mun

Many of the researchers believe that the probes found in the ancient Chinese caves and crypts were the original acupuncture instruments. These probes are over 5000 year ago. Acupuncture is done by making use of needles on systematized meridians is the evidence of past 2000 years. However, basic philosophy, theory and principles were put forward by The Yellow Emperor's Internal Medicine classic.

This was put forward in around 200 B.C.E. it is more likely that acupuncture had developed after massage and acupressure therapies. Such treatments for injuries and lesions were more common thousands of years ago, when were no OSHA regulation among Chinese soldiers, workers and farmers. This was always a specialty of acupuncturists.

Ancient Chinese acupuncturist considered their most valuable skill to treat person with inabilities to keep working and acupuncturist still appreciate this thinking. Therefore, it has always been important to be able to treat the panic conditions that limit the movements and abilities to do physical works.

Fundamentally, Chinese medicine is Daoist creation that looked at the nature pattern to understand human body, spirit and mind. The transformation of the seasons, the growth of plants, and the flow of water inspired early Daoist, sagacious and doctors. To have incredible degree of body awareness, Daoists practiced for meditation and yogic exercises.

Ancient Chinese medical casing work of body organ system and energy was led by the consciousness of body energy and hormonal systems collectively observations of diseases procedure. Disease process of the human body was studied with the external natural events and it was observed that both of these processes are same just like instant floods can ruin the crops, and drinking too much water during meals can spoil the digestion process. On the other hand, drought can lead to fire same as that of dry cough can turn in to the fire of bloody cough as well as fever.

One can say that it is coincidence that body consisting of around 365 acupuncture and12 meridians. Though there are more than 365 points on the body however 365 main points taught in acupuncture are the once found most effective in treating diseases and pains. Chinese medicine is an incredible merging of theories and experience.

Besides this, scientists candidly confess that acupuncture works in many unknown ways and that have agreed on various things that help to understand the curative consequences of acupuncture. Much of the research had dealt with bodies natural painkillers like endorphins and encephalin. Acupuncture consistently triggers the release of significant amount of endorphins.

It was found that acupuncture was best to cure blood pressure as well as circulation, it relaxes spasm muscle, to stimulate immune system, it also stimulates the release of anti-inflammatory compounds. Body has an energy field that is dependent on naturally derived electricity for the systematic functioning of nervous system, heart and other organs. Body is complex mechanism and has capacity for self-repair. Acupuncture is best aid to trigger the body's self-repairing system when its immunity becomes low.

Tools in Ancient Chinese Acupuncture

When a person visits an acupuncturist today and has a treatment, infection from needles that are not sterile is not a concern. This is because the very fine, thin acupuncture needles will be taken from individual packages. These sterile needles have even been classified as medical instruments by the Federal Drug Administration. These precision instruments are usually made from stainless steel. In some rarer cases, they are made from gold or silver. Yet, this was not always the case. Acupuncture is an ancient art. What were the earliest tools in ancient Chinese acupuncture?

A discussion of the tools used in ancient Chinese acupuncture would lead to a discussion of the very origins of acupuncture. Most people tend to date the beginnings of acupuncture at various times during the reigns of various Chinese Emperors. They might also date it from the text written by the Yellow Emperor. This book still exists and is used as a reference work to some degree. The truth is that acupuncture did not suddenly originate at any given point in time. It was a system of treatment that most likely developed over a period of millions of years of human history through a slow and almost evolutionary method of trial and error.

In these very early times, there was not much to distract human beings from the basic concerns of survival. Healing and the treatment of injuries was one of these survival concerns. Gradually, as almost countless years passed, people discovered what worked and as they did they developed theories as to why. The important thing in the beginning was not why a procedure worked, but the fact that it did work. The theories as to why it worked would come later and be subject to change as the level of philosophical and spiritual knowledge increased. In very old sites around the world, very primitive types of tools have been discovered that appear to have been the very first acupuncture tools.

These ancient tools were made of stone at first. Later, tools made from fish bones were used also. The tools most likely used in ancient Chinese acupuncture were often made from bamboo. There was no way to make these early needles with the precision that is used today. The materials and the craftsmanship would just not have been present. It is most likely that the earliest forms of acupuncture consisted more of pressure and even bloodletting due to the limitation of the needles.

In the Golden Age of Chinese Acupuncture, needles made from metals appeared. These metals were copper, brass, silver, and sometimes even gold. The use of metals in the making of tools used in Ancient Chinese acupuncture allowed a little more precision and thinness. This would have been the beginning of the needle insertion and twisting techniques that are still practiced today. There is no doubt that the earliest instruments were crude. There was little known about sterilization. Despite these drawbacks, the method of trial and error produced methods that worked. It was the success of the procedures that led our ancestors to attempt to explain them. This in turn led to the theories and philosophies behind the procedures.

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