Monday, February 26th, 2007
Acupuncture is an old medicine used to promote good health and maintain a healthy body. It is carried out by inserting hundreds of tiny needles into special acupuncture points in the body where "qi".
Qi is reported as being the body’s natural energy source, travels through channels around the body.
Acupuncture can be classed as the oldest, known medication still used today. Besides believing that acupuncture is a Chinese medicine, what else do we know?
By following the roots of acupuncture we can see that archeologists have found remnants of the medical practice.
These remnants were found in the form of Hieroglyphs in cave dwellings and date back to one thousand years before Jesus Christ was born, making them 3,000 years old.
Looking even further than this, there is evidence that acupuncture was used thousands of years prior to the archeological finds mentioned.
A five thousand year old mummy was found in the Alps mountain range and named Otzi.
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