Acupuncture Video

Oriental medicine are the oldest known medical canons and were found about 200 years before the birth of our LORD Jesus Christ.  While these ancient texts survived the test of time, they may have not been the first written by the Orientals, leading scientist to speculate even older canons have yet to be discovered.

The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine  (Huang De Neijing) dates from the second century BC, and has a profound influence on acupuncture practices of today. The first Acupuncture needles were made from bone and date to 1,000 years before the canon was written.

Classical Chinese medicine is based wholly on the original classical medicine texts written in China as early as 3000-5000 years ago.  Archaeologists have found both acupuncture needles and divination bones on which medical discussions were inscribed dating to the late Shang Dynasty (~1000 B.C.).

In 1991, a mummified man scientist named Otzi who lived around 3300 B.C. was found in the Otztal Alps with tattoos on either side of his spine, behind his knee and around his ankle. These tattoos represent acupuncture points. Scientists speculated from a CT scan he may have been suffering with arthritis and published their finding in the Lancet:

"a treatment modality similar to Acupuncture thus appears to have been in use long before its previously known period of use in the medical tradition of ancient China (c. 1000Bc)."

For further details about Classical Chinese Medicine go to http://www.jungtao.edu/index.php/classical-chinese-medicine.  

Acupuncture fine tunes the energy in our bodies known as "Qi." Qi is a fundamental unit in East Asian Medicine that has not yet been explained by Western Scientists. There are entire books written about Qi. It has been loosely defined as energy or life-force, but most scholars will say this too is wrong. 

During an acupuncture treatment, a practitioner and their patient will feel something when the needle has stimulated Qi. For the patient it can be best described as a dull achey heavy sensation, but each acupuncture point has a different Qi sensation. Many people will say it's a nerve sensation, but if a needle hits a nerve, it is very painful. So while Western Scientists catch up with the East, we will have to wait for a more solid definition that better explains Qi.   

Physics may offer more insight in the understanding of Qi (chi).  The findings of modern physics are now translating to those of Chinese Medicine. Both suggest that our bodies are essentially a composite of trillions of frequencies.  These frequencies are communicated as Qi and Jing.  This Yin and Yang behavior plays out in the form of cells, organ and tissues which are constantly vibrating and communicating with one another along with the external environment. 

It seems that in addition to being physical beings, on a more basic level we are beings of energy whose chemical processes are dependent upon the flow of energy throughout our bodies.  The scientific field of physics has confirmed the principals of Chinese Medicine beginning with Einstein's discovery that energy and matter are interchangeable.