Sierra Leone News: Introduction of Acupuncture

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Acupuncture is vital part of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and nowadays, it’s becoming more and more popular both in China and beyond. It’s an alternative medicine that treats patients by insertion and manipulation of needles in the body. Its proponents variously claim that it relieves pain, treats infertility, treats disease, prevents disease, or promotes general health through adjusting the organic functions and clearing the energy channels of obstruction in our body. It is said that as early as the Stone Age, an ancestor whose hands ached might touch a stone by chance during work, then he felt better. Over time they improved the shape of stone to be sharp enough to knead; their blood circulation became more smooth and hastened recovery. In ancient China, it was called ‘Bian Shu’, a treat method with stone needles which then evolved into the bone, bamboo and metal. Now it is popular to use stainless steel and silver needles among the doctors of Chinese medicine. They are so fine with a length of 15 – 125 millimeters and the diameter is 0.28 – 0.45 millimeters. The earliest written record of acupuncture is found in the Huangdi Neijing; translated as The Yellow Emperor’s Inner Canon), dated approximately 200 BC. Acupuncture typically incorporates traditional Chinese medicine as an integral part of its practice and theory. After thousands of years’ clinical practice and summaries, complete theoretical systems came into being, like therapeutics, which effectively conduct the operation. Acupoint or Shu Xue in Chinese is exclusive to Chinese medical science. According to the records, it is on the passages named Jing Luo through which vital energy circulates around the whole body. If the passages like a network are blocked, doctors will prick acupoints to dredge them. Now these questions have been raised to be the hot point of international science, and someone have said it is the fifth great invention of China. (See the Four Great Inventions.) On the passages, there dispersed hundreds of acupoints. Once the needle enters into the acupoints, deep or shallow, lifted or entwisted, inserted in different frequency, all according to the techniques of experienced doctors, the miraculous effect will appear. The indications to the acupuncture are quite wide, including the frequently-occurring diseases of internal medicine, surgical medicine, paediatrics, gynaecology, dermatology, etc. In 1958, acupuncture anaesthesia began to be used in clinical cure, adding new content to the anaesthetics. This kind of treatment does not do any harm to the body nor has any side effect. Doctors handling the needle freely, it is convenient and comfortable because it needs no special condition or facilities, except the small and thin needles. So it is easy for patients to accept. In 1982, Chinese ministry of Public Health had appraised the achievements of this method. After that, operations of lung removal, uterectomy, and others of difficulty have been successfully conducted with acupuncture anaesthesia, which shook up the medical world – World Health Organization has declared 47 instances of it to date. Tuesday August 29, 2017.

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