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Electroacupuncture is a form of acupuncture in which acupuncture needles are attached to a device that generates continuous electric pulses (this has been described as "essentially transdermal electrical nerve stimulation masquerading as acupuncture"). [56] Fire needle acupuncture also known as fire needling is a technique which involves ...
The CNT Manual provides guidelines for acupuncture needle safety and related procedures, including moxibustion, cupping, electroacupuncture, therapeutic blood withdrawal, gua sha, plum blossom needling, press tacks, intradermal needles, ear seeds, tui na, heat lamps, and other acupuncture-related tools.
Auriculotherapy (also auricular therapy, ear acupuncture, and auriculoacupuncture) is a form of alternative medicine based on the idea that the ear is a micro system and an external organ, which reflects the entire body, represented on the auricle, the outer portion of the ear. Conditions affecting the physical, mental or emotional health of ...
Fire needle acupuncture also known as fire needling is an acupuncture technique that involves quickly inserting a red hot needle into acupuncture points on the body. [1] Deep insertions result in greater pain and other side effects. [2] Fire needling combines conventional acupuncture and cauterization with heated needles. [3]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 30 September 2024. Form of pseudoscientific counseling intervention Not to be confused with Emotionally focused therapy. Emotional Freedom Techniques Alternative medicine Claims Tapping on "meridian points" on the body, derived from acupuncture, can release "energy blockages" that cause "negative ...
Koryo hand acupuncture [1] is a modern system of acupuncture, created by Yu Tae-u in the 1970s, [2] in which the hand represents the entire body and is needled or stimulated during treatment. [3] Koryo hand acupuncture is popular among the general population as a form of self-medication in Korea, and has adherents in Japan and North America ...
[citation needed] The World Health Organization (WHO) published A Proposed Standard International Acupuncture Nomenclature Report in 1991 and 2014, listing 361 classical acupuncture points organized according to the fourteen meridians, eight extra meridians, 48 extra points, and scalp acupuncture points, [4] and published Standard Acupuncture ...
While practicing and teaching traditional acupuncture in Guangzhou, he realized that several innovations were needed to improve and accelerate the acupuncture effect. Because some techniques for painful problems in the ancient Huangdi Neijing were punctured obliquely surrounding some painful spots, Fu thought inserting horizontally was a good ...