Acupuncture. Find out the benefits, what it cures and if it hurts
Acupuncture consists in pricking specific points with needles located along a complex structure of energy channels called meridians that run through our entire body. At the beginning they used needles in bronze or iron, then in gold or silver. Disposable steel needles are currently used. What is acupuncture According to some, the beginning of this therapeutic practice dates back to over a millennium before the birth of Christ while for others it is even older. However, the theoretical principles on which it is based were collected only later in an ancient treatise, the Nei Ching , written between the fifth and second centuries BC. From China, the spread of acupuncture initially extended to Korea and Japan. It arrived in the West around 1600 through missionaries who returned from those regions and brought the first rudimentary news. But it is only in recent times that acupuncture has taken root in our healthcare system and has been so well accepted by conventional medi