Idowebs.com / Services Home/Search/add/modify / Sales Home/Search Acupuncture Category listing at Idoservices.com Acupuncture, Allergy Elimination, Nutritionist, Oriental Medicine, Homeopathy Miami Florida Acupuncture (from Lat. acus, ‘a needle’, and pungere, ‘to prick’) is the practice of inserting very thin needles in particular acupuncture points on the body to improve health and well-being, and is one component of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). Acupuncture has long been used by the Chinese for a wide variety of health complaints. This practice spread throughout Asia and eventually the world. The Chinese practice of acupuncture is at least 2,000 years old, with physical evidence having been found dating to the Han dynasty. Forms of acupuncture are also described in the literature of the traditional medicine of India. Possibly the earliest evidence for the practice of puncturing specific points for health purposes has been found in Europe, of all places. Ötzi the Iceman, a 5,000 year old mummy found preserved in an Alpine glacier, has tattoos on points which correspond to points that a modern acupuncturist or tui na (Chinese acupressure) specialist would use to treat symptoms of diseases that Ötzi seems to have suffered from, including digestive parasites and degenerative bone disease. One theory being that Ötzi's points were routinely “needled” using thorns from various plants, the vegetable residue left in the insertion sites eventually building up to produce tattoos. More recently in the West acupuncture is usually considered a form of complementary and alternative medicine. Acupuncture This article is part of the branches of CAM series. CAM Classifications NCCAM: Component of Traditional Chinese medicine that uses a form of body manipulation. Modality: Professionalized Culture: Eastern Chinese Alternative Medicine Terms and concepts Philosophy of ... Branches of ... Famous People in ... History of ... Index of topics In China, acupuncture is known as zhēn jǐu (針灸). Zhen means needle, jiu means moxibustion. Historically, it was generally understood that to warm an acupuncture point (moxibustion) was a stronger treatment than to needle the point. Moxibustion is still used today in varying degrees by different schools of TCM thought. Nowadays, acupuncture needling of points is performed with a very fine gauge of disposable stainless steel needles which are sterilized with ethylene oxide or by autoclave. From the free encyclopedia Wikipedia Acupuncture ******* *******