För den som tror att akupunktur är någon tusen år gammal lära baserad på stor visdom så kan jag rekommendera den här texten. Den korta summeringen är att Mao & co hittade på det i slutet av 50-talet för att de inte hade möjlighet att ge befolkningen verklig medicinsk hjälp.
Här är ett härligt utdrag från texten kring en av de få kända rapporterna av ”akupunktur” från århundradet innan det gjordes populärt av Mao igen.
”There are not many reports mentioning the use of acupuncture after 1822….When Wong & Wu published their History of Chinese Medicine in 1936, the only contemporary report about acupuncture they could find came from William Morse Chinese Medicine:.
Suggestively placed on the charts were coins, moxa and an assortment of twelve needles, 3 to 24 cm in length. I saw needles inserted deeply into the suprasternal notch and in the grooves above the clavicle, which vibrated from their proximity to the great arteries of the neck. Needles inserted 5 to 15 cm into the liver and epigastrium
… Another needle passed through the lacrimal sac and proceeded inwards along the inner wall of the orbit, apparently deeply enough to enter the brain …
One insertion was rather striking and gruesome. The needle entered the nose until it reached, I would think from its direction, the ethmoid plate and then was struck a considerable blow, I presume piercing the ethmoid plate into the brain! …
The operator’s procedures for sterilization varied. No application was made to the skin. He “cleaned” the needle with his thumb nail, rubbed it through his hair, or rubbed it off on his gown or the sole of his shoe, or all of these, then lubricated the needle with spittle and drove it home. After a suitable time he removed the needle, applied moxa, set it set it on fire and crushed the ashes into the former blister with his fingernails”.
Tyvärr är det kass formatering på själva artikeln här så den är lite svårläst: http://www.jcimjournal.com/jim/FullText2.aspx?articleID=jintegrmed2013008
För den som har tillgång så finns den som PDF i betydligt mer lättläst format här: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2095496414600984