
If you know traditional Chinese medical science, maybe you know acupuncture. Acupuncture is a kind of traditional method of treating disease. Acupuncture skill regards acupuncture point as most important.
What is the acupuncture point? The acupuncture point is some special points on people’s bodies. There are more than 700 acupuncture points on our body. These points are connected by certain route. The certain route is named as “Jing Luo” in traditional Chinese medical science. It is translated into “channels and collaterals” too. The traditional Chinese medical science theory thinks “Jing Luo” like the traffic system in people’s bodies. Acupuncture points like crossroads. However, in fact “Jing Luo” and acupuncture point are invisible. They are different from blood vessel and nerve. They only exist in the bodies of the living people. Don’t have “Jing Luo” and acupuncture point in dead bodies. Modern anatomy is unable to find them. Therefore western medicine thinks there aren’t “Jing Luo” and acupuncture point in the human body. The traditional Chinese medical science is looking for the evidences to refute this view actively. I think the truth of the thing needs time.
Acupuncture literally means needle piercing. It is the practice of inserting very fine needles into the skin to stimulate specific points. This stimulation balances the movement of energy in the body.
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