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Acupuncture practitioners should know, and be prepared to be responsible for, any substantial harm from treatments. [40] Some acupuncture proponents argue that the long history of acupuncture suggests it is safe. [40] However, there is an increasing literature on adverse events (e.g. spinal-cord injury). [40]
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Wang Weiyi (pinyin: Wáng wéiyī; 987–1067 [1]), also known as Wang Weide (王惟德), was a Chinese physician and writer of the Song dynasty.He was as an expert on acupuncture famous for creating bronze figure models and compiling a book on the subject.
The US FDA classifies single-use acupuncture needles as Class II medical devices, under CFR 21. [219] Acupuncture is often accompanied by moxibustion – the Chinese characters for acupuncture (针灸; 針灸; zhēnjiǔ) literally meaning "acupuncture-moxibustion" – which involves burning mugwort on or near the skin at an acupuncture point. [220]
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Acupuncture: Acupuncture, the traditional Chinese medicinal practice of inserting needles into specific points of the body for therapeutic purposes and relieving pain, was first mentioned in Huangdi Neijing compiled from the 3rd to 2nd centuries B.C. (Warring States period to Han dynasty). [48]
The history of alternative medicine covers the history of a group of diverse medical practices that were collectively promoted as "alternative medicine" beginning in the 1970s, to the collection of individual histories of members of that group, or to the history of western medical practices that were labeled "irregular practices" by the western medical establishment.
Felix Mann (10 April 1931 – 2 October 2014) was a German-born acupuncturist. [1] He devised the system known as Scientific Acupuncture and was the founder and past president of the Medical Acupuncture Society (1959–1980).