The special medical effects of acupuncture have gradually become popular in the world. Many Westerners have received acupuncture from their hearts. Until now, Chinese food, acupuncture, kung fu, and Chinese medicine are well-known overseas and can be called the "New Four Great National Essences".

Acupuncture is the essence of Chinese culture that has spread throughout the West after Chinese food, and is also an area where China truly has an influence on Western science and technology.

Although traditional Chinese medicine came to the United States very early with Chinese immigrants, both the people and the official recognized that acupuncture therapy was officially introduced to the United States with Nikke-Song-Interview.

Many Americans know that the fuse that triggered the "acupuncture fever" back then was a report published in the New York Times newspaper.

The most widely circulated rumor about the introduction of acupuncture into the United States in the United States is as follows: Among the members of the Nikke-Song-Interview with the Chinese delegation, a young reporter accompanied the delegation suffered from appendicitis in China and was admitted to a Chinese hospital.

When performing appendectomy, Chinese doctors did not use anesthetics but used acupuncture and analgesic anesthesia, and the operation was very successful.

After returning to the United States, the reporter published an article in the New York newspaper, introducing his own personal experience, which triggered the acupuncture fever in the United States.

This story can be called the "beautiful legend" in the medical community, so what is the historical fact?

It turned out that the article was written by the famous American journalist James Reston in New York. At that time, he was already a New York reporter in China. He was good at politics and governance. He had extraordinary achievements throughout his life. He had interviewed several American presidents, Premier Zhou, and other countries, including Ross Fu, to Bush, and other countries.

Roston won many journalism awards. Later, he became the vice president of the New York Times newspaper and died in 1995.

The fact is that after the Sino-Middle relations began to ease, before Nik-Kesong-President's visit to China, Roston was sent to China for interviews and visited many units in Beijing, including visiting acupuncture treatment at the Chinese medicine hospital.

However, during the visit, I unfortunately suffered from acute appendicitis and underwent appendectomy surgery in a Chinese hospital. During the operation, I used routine medication anesthesia, felt abdominal distension and discomfort after the operation, and received acupuncture treatment. Later, in July 1971, the famous documentary report was published in the New York newspaper: "Let me tell you about my appendectomy surgery in Peking."

In 1971, Roston was already a senior journalist in his 60s. Due to his extraordinary experience and the status of the New York Times in the press and in the minds of Americans, such articles written by reporters were extremely credible. At that time, the Palace had just announced that Nicky-Kesong-General will visit China in 1972. The American public had a sense of mystery about China, which was not very clear about them. Roston's article just satisfies the curiosity of readers, and coupled with some political needs, Roston's article began to become popular in the United States.

Roston wrote in the article: It seems a bit ridiculous to publish an obituary to commemorate the lost appendix, but because of this, I have had the opportunity to learn from the political and business development of an important hospital in China from the inside in the past ten days. This report is a record of my experience and experience.

In short, Premier Zhou of China invited 11 medical authorities in Peking to consult me, and then Professor Wu, a surgeon at xxxxx Hospital, used a routine abdominal local anesthesia in July. After injecting lidocaine and monzocaine, he had an appendectomy for me.

There were no complications in the operation, nor did I experience nausea or vomiting. I was awake during the entire operation. Through the translation of the Chinese-Chinese-Foreign and Foreign Affairs Department, I did it completely according to Professor Wu’s requirements during the operation, and returned to my room smoothly after two and a half hours.

However, the night after the operation, my abdomen felt uncomfortable and painful. After obtaining my consent, Dr. Li from the acupuncture department of the hospital used a slender needle to slap my right outer elbow and knees three times, and at the same time, he twisted the needle with his hands to stimulate my gastrointestinal motility to reduce abdominal pressure and gastric bloating.

The acupuncture caused a burst of pain in my limbs, but at least it dispersed the feeling of discomfort in my abdomen. At the same time, Dr. Li put two burning herbs, like Lian-Sui-Egg-Smoke-Smoke-Smoke-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito-Mosquito

All this took only 20 minutes. At that time, I wanted to use this method to treat abdominal bloating. Is it a bit too complicated? But in less than an hour, my abdominal bloating felt significantly reduced and I never recurred again.

According to the information I have received, many reports from China about acupuncture curing blindness, paralysis and mental illness have led the United States to speculate that the Chinese are likely to have made new major breakthroughs in acupuncture and herbal medicine. But I don’t know whether these speculations are correct, and I am not qualified to make such a judgment.

On the other hand, someone talked about my accident, at least my experience in acupuncture, but it was just a trick used by the reporter to achieve the purpose of understanding acupuncture anesthesia.

Although this statement is not completely unreasonable, it is really an over-reward for my imagination, courage and spirit of sacrifice.

I can indeed make a lot of sacrifices in order to get good news, but I won’t have to go to surgery in the middle of the night or take the initiative to be a ‘Dutch pig’ for experiments…

This report article is not only clear and concise, but also humorous and interesting. More importantly, Roseton just reported his own experiences and experiences truthfully, and did not comment on the medicine he was not familiar with. He only described the facts, did not attract any sensationalism, and made news.

However, the historical effect of this article on popularizing acupuncture is absolutely huge, and acupuncture has gradually entered the Western world.

It is said that when the acupuncture fever first started, since China and the US had not yet established diplomatic relations, there were very few people who knew acupuncture in the United States, so "Luoyang paper was expensive" for a while. Every day, a large bus from Huasheng to New York took patients to New York to ask for an acupuncture doctor to see a doctor. The business of acupuncture teachers was booming and overwhelmed, so that there was not enough clinics and rented a hotel to receive patients.

The acupuncture doctor was so busy that he was only concerned about acupuncture for the patient. He didn’t even have time to get the needle, so he had to hire an assistant to pull the needle.

Some acupuncturists have a good business and can buy a house in just one week's income. Of course, for understandable reasons, the good times of this early acupuncture fever did not last long.

Comparing the true story with the American "folk legend". Although the details are different, the story is generally consistent.

Although this kind of folk "oral literature" is not very credible and not enough to be used as historical evidence, the facts rendering itself in the process of folk legends fully reflects the beautiful wishes of the people who spread the stories.

There is an old Chinese saying that "drink the well digging when you eat water." While remembering that our ancestors invented acupuncture and created the healthy reproduction and prosperity of the Chinese nation, we should also remember many Chinese and foreign doctors, scientists, social activists and patients who have contributed to the progress of acupuncture. At the same time, we should not forget the American journalist Roston and his "trip to Beijing" published 30 years ago in the New York Times.

Acupuncture is not only of great use in treating diseases. In other places, acupuncture is also useful for unimaginable to ordinary people. Acupuncture can not only serve people but also deal with animals.

To ensure the deliciousness of the beef, Japan has innovatively given beef cattle a daily massage; to make the pet dog slim, Japan will take the pet dog to dance samba dance together.

Now, Japan has once again innovated: in order to make the most delicious sushi in the world, they actually gave acupuncture for tuna.

A company in Saka recently demonstrated the technology of acupuncture for tuna at the Okinawa International Seafood Show and has applied for a patent. The company said the technology is based on the principle that "the taste of tuna when it is calm and death is better than the taste of dying when it is uneasy."

After a brief acupuncture treatment, the blood will become pure and the fish will become more delicious, but they refuse to disclose the specific parts of the acupuncture pierced into the tuna's body.

The technology has only tested tuna, and the company will test salmon next.

The medical effect of acupuncture is indeed quite large, and it can even be said to be magical in some aspects. However, when you are undergoing acupuncture, you still need to pay attention to that there are still certain risks in performing acupuncture.

The needles used for acupuncture are very small, so the needles used for acupuncture will be very fragile. Once used improperly, they will easily break. Imagine that a broken needle is constantly moving in your body with blood or other reasons. What kind of feelings and dangers will you have at that time? Therefore, acupuncture treatment also has certain risks.

In this case, when acupuncture treatment is performed, the acupuncture needle is broken, which is called acupuncture or acupuncture needle in acupuncture medicine.

A broken needle, or a folded needle, is the pointer body broken in the human body. The reasons are that the needle is poor in quality, the needle body or root is damaged and eroded, and it is not inspected before entering the needle. When acupuncture is pierced, the needle body is pierced into the acupoints, when the needle is carried out, the needle is pulled and twisted, the muscles are contracted violently, the patient changes his position at will, or the needle is bent, and the needle is not handled correctly in a timely manner.

It can be seen that in order to prevent the needle from being folded, the needle should be carefully checked before operation. Needles that do not meet the quality requirements should be removed without using them; excessive or too strong needles should be avoided during operation;

This method of boiling and pulling out the cartridges was recorded in detail in some important surgical works in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, such as "The Great Learning of Surgery" and "The Golden Mirror of the Medical School", indicating that this method was very popular at that time.

In addition to boiling and pulling the drum, some simpler cupping methods are also used. For example, Ming Shen Douyuan's "Surgery Qixuan" contains the method of removing pus from the bamboo tube: "The sores and pus have been ulcerated and broken, because the pus is blocked and blocked... In this way, the bamboo tube should be used to suck the pus by itself, which is to drain the poison."

By the Qing Dynasty, cupping methods had greater developments. First of all, it was another innovation in cupping tools. Although bamboo cups are cheap and easy to obtain, they have poor suction. After being dried for a long time, they are prone to drying and leaking.

To make up for this shortcoming, clay pots made of clay appeared in the Qing Dynasty, and the term "fire pot" that has been used to this day was formally proposed.

In this regard, the book "Selected Vows of Compendium of Materia Medica" by Zhao Xuemin of the Qing Dynasty was described in detail: "The fire jar: it is available in Jiangyou and Fujian. It is sold by kilns. It is as small as a big finger, with a small belly and a slightly narrow end. It can make the mouth rush to get angry. If you suffer from any wind and cold, you will use this jar."

It shows that clay pots have been bought and sold as commodities and have become popular.

Secondly, cupping methods have made great progress. "Burn small paper to see the flame, put it into the cup, and put the cup into the affected area. If the headache is caused, it is connected to the sun, the brain or the top of the head, and the abdominal pain is connected to the navel. If the cup is left with the fire, it cannot be removed immediately. It must fall off, and the flesh will turn red and there will be qi and water in the cup."

This cupping method is still quite commonly used fire-injection method. At the same time, the lesion area was used as the cupping site and the acupoints were used to improve the treatment effect.

In addition, the Qing Dynasty "The Golden Mirror of the Medical School? The Key to Acupuncture and Moxibustion" also mentioned a special cupping method to treat mad dog bites. That is, at the bite, "urgently use a big mouth sand wine pot, which is filled with hot wine, and boil it very hot. Remove the wine and use the spout of the wine pot to the bite, like cupping, absorb all the bad blood to the extent, break it and fall."

To sum up, cupping therapy has a history of more than 2,000 years in China and has formed a unique and special treatment method. However, it should be pointed out that its development process is very slow. It has been mainly used to treat carbuncles and sores for a long time. Although it has been expanded in the Qing Dynasty, the overall situation is still absent from the external treatment methods of sore surgery.

Therefore, cupping, which was originally one of the acupuncture and moxibustion methods, was very rare in a large number of acupuncture works in ancient China. Especially after the late Qing Dynasty, with the decline of acupuncture medicine itself, cupping was also among the people, and its development tended to stagnate.

Therefore, cupping therapy has gradually become a treatment method for traditional Chinese medicine. (To be continued, please search for astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!
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