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A BRIEF HISTORY OF TRADITIONAL ACUPUNCTURE

Traditional Acupuncture as it is known in the Far East, has been practised in many countries China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and Vietnam etc for about 2000 years of recorded history. Some say as long ago as 3500 years ago. One of the first books still in use today is “The Yellow Emperors Classic of Internal Medicine" which dates from 300BC.

Traditional Acupuncture developed an extensive anatomical, physiological and emotional understanding of the health of the human being. This system of medicine is rooted in the Daoist philosophies of growth, change, harmony and balance, Daoism is a detailed study of the natural world and the place of the human within creation, it includes the relationship of the human to nature and nutrition, the cycles of the seasons, as well as the more familiar biological functions of the body.

( British Medical Acupuncture as practiced by GP’s, Physiotherapists, and some Osteopaths in this country, has no relation to Traditional Acupuncture (see Acupuncture training ).

Traditional Acupuncture has continued to develop over the last 2000 years; it remains a major form of medicine in the East. It is practised in Chinese hospitals alongside what are called “conventional western medicine and drugs” and Chinese herbal treatments.

Ironically Traditional Acupuncture is far older than most European drug therapies.

STYLES OF ACUPUNCTURE IN THE UK

Due the thousands of years of development many styles of Traditional Acupuncture have grown up, despite this they all have a common ancestor in Daoism, handed down from generation to generation.

There are two primary styles of Traditional Acupuncture that have come to the West in the last 100 years, and are practiced here.

FIVE ELEMENT ACUPUNCTURE

Traditional Five Element Acupuncture is usually done with needles, but may also include Moxabustion and Cupping therapies.

Five Element Acupuncture is a combination of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean styles of treatment, which treat all conditions but has a particular emphasis on the spirit of the individual.

It is taught at the oldest existing Acupuncture College in Great Britain, The College of Traditional Acupuncture (CTA)

TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE

TCM is a Traditional Form of Acupuncture it’s treatments roots are based in Chinese Herbalism. Acupuncture in this form, is the type largely practised by the Chinese Medicine Shops that have sprung up everywhere in the last 10 years) However there are British TCM Acupuncturists who do not always use Chinese herbs .

HOW TRADITIONAL ACUPUNCTURE CAME TO THE WEST

	Traditional Acupuncture arrived in Europe in the 1918. it came to France, through George Soulie De Morant a Frenchman who was also a fluent Chinese speaker.
	Morant worked for the diplomatic corps; he was sent to China where he saw a Cholera Epidemic in 1900 being successfully treated with Traditional Acupuncture by a Dr Yang.
	Morant decided to study Acupuncture with Dr Yang then went on to study Acupuncture all over China including Vietnamese styles. Morant also studied in Japan as well. In all Morant spent 18 years in the China studying Traditional Acupuncture
	Morant returned to France in 1918, and by 1927 had been persuaded to translate Classical Chinese medical texts into French, and train others in Traditional Acupuncture, his clinical practice developed in hospitals, and private practice. The publication of his book “Chinese Acupuncture” led to him being nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in Physiology in 1950.
	Morant’s work led to the growth of interest and practice of Traditional Acupuncture in Germany, Austria, and Great Britain in the 1940s and 50s.
	Practioners in the fields of Osteopathy, Chiropractic, Medicine and Naturopaths all took courses in Traditional Acupuncture and also started professional Acupuncture Societies and Journals.
	Seminars in England were attended by among others Jack Worsley, a Coventry born Osteopath who started studying Traditional Acupuncture in 1962. He then went on with many others to study with Acupuncture teachers of France, Japan, Germany, and China.( Eckman 1996)

The Original Colleges for Traditional Acupuncture in Great Britain started since the 60s and still in existence today are

1966 College of Traditional Acupuncture (CTA) Leamington Spa moved to Hatton, Warwick in 2005.

1972 The International College of Oriental Medicine, East Grinstead, founded by Dr Van Buren

1992 The College of Integrated Chinese Medicine, Reading, founded by Giovanni Maciocia

A number of other Colleges have sprung up since the inception of the above Colleges. ( See training page)

Traditional Acupuncture has a long and distinguished pedigree in the East and in the West.

Source P. Eckman 1996

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