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Acupuncture has been used successfully for over five millennia. |
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A Short History of Acupuncture 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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