Acupuncture: an ancient medical technique revived

Authors: Frith T
Publication: New Zealand Veterinary Journal, Volume 30, Issue 8, pp 109, Aug 1982
Publisher: Taylor and Francis

Animal type: General
Subject Terms: Treatment/therapy, Alternate remedies/homeopathy, Veterinary profession
Article class: General Article

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Abstract: With the opening of China to the West, there has been vastly increased impetus given to studying the methods, philosophies and knowledge of the oldest civilisation in existence. It is therefore essential that the West, with all its technological advances, maintains an adequate perspective on a form of medicine which is both different, and subtle and delicate. It is not enough to attempt to take the finest silken tapestry of Chinese medicine and subject it to the forces of the great western automatic washing machine; then to expect the end result not to have lost the quality and essence that are functions of the experience of many generations of study, clinical experience, and observation. The Western definitive method describes water as one atom of oxygen in combination with two atoms of hydrogen; which is exactly and precisely correct. The Chinese describe water in terms of its function…

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