Acupuncture´s History

Hey guys, how you´re holding up? Too much homework and projects right? Well I don´t know about you, but I´m pretty tired, and I´ve been very busy these couple of weeks… Well let´s get to what concerns us and that is what I am going to post here. Today I am going to tell you about the history of acupuncture, I know is boring but I think we should know more about from where does acupuncture comes.

Acupuncture started approximately 2000 years ago, and the first report of this practice is written in a medical text named Huangdi Neijing, that means, Yellow Emperor´s Inner Canon.

These technical began as warriors in their battles hurt themselves because of the arrow keys and needed to be cured, so they began to use stones with sharp-pointed in the woundsall this during the Shang dynasty.

Later with the passage of time and the new contributions to metallurgy, the stones were replaced with needles. After acupuncture was spread by all Korea, Japan and the East, and had a great boom in all these places. 

Little by little this medicine was taking life elsewhere in the world such as Europe and America, however, advances in medicine have superseded this practice so it is these places is not so common practice as some others. This medicine was primarily influenced by the philosophy and Asian culture, so it is very practiced today and is used as a "therapy" with medications.

Here are some pictures about acupuncture´s history.