Stone
acupuncture needles dating back to 3000 B.C. have bee found by archeologists
in Inner Mongolia, and acupuncture has been widely practiced in China
for around 3,500 years. In the 17th century, physicians and missionaries
brought acupuncture to Europe, where it slowly gained a foothold. In 1972,
James Reston, a journalist for the New York Times, had an emergency appendectomy
while in China. He gave acupuncture an enormous boost when he described
how it had eased his postoperative pain. Spectacular examples of acupuncture
as an alternative to conventional anesthesia during surgery were subsequently
reported in the West.
Since the opening of China to the West after the 1970s, many Western physicians
have studies acupuncture techniques and use "medical acupuncture",
as the practice is known, to supplement conventional treatment in hospitals
and pain clinics. In the West, traditionally trained practitioners who
are not physicians tend to practice in private clinics. The use of acupuncture
in anesthesia is mainly confined to China.
Stone
acupuncture needles dating back to 3000 B.C. have bee found by archeologists
in Inner Mongolia, and acupuncture has been widely practiced in China
for around 3,500 years. In the 17th century, physicians and missionaries
brought acupuncture to Europe, where it slowly gained a foothold. In 1972,
James Reston, a journalist for the New York Times, had an emergency appendectomy
while in China. He gave acupuncture an enormous boost when he described
how it had eased his postoperative pain. Spectacular examples of acupuncture
as an alternative to conventional anesthesia during surgery were subsequently
reported in the West. 
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