3. Brief history of the Ear Acupuncture
Brief history of the Ear Acupuncture
Corporal acupuncture data of approximately 5,000 years before Christ and was begun making the practice of the same one with needles of animal bone.
When they appeared the metals, silver and gold needles were used to stimulate to sedar. At the present time stainless steel needles are used, that appear completely closed and sterilized, are opened in the presence of the patient and they are placed in a sterilized tubito that is given to him for its only personal use, discarding in this way any possibility of I infect. We do not forget that treats of a medical and single act the graduated and registered professionals can exert it.
The origin of acupuncture could be had due to the observation in the soldiers of the disappearance of some diseases after to be hurt in combat, in determined parts of the body and seeing that an ailment that it had in another place improved or disappeared, this one is one of the possibilities.
Another possible origin is that the diseases were considered like generated by the demon and when punctured the patient, to drive away it, the ailments disappeared, thing who often obtained it when punturar, in the beginning without knowing it, in certain points of the skin that had connection by means of meridians.
Through the centuries and with a cosmogonic conception of the Universe, the Chinese developed this old science that nowadays is in a process of expansion and acceptance in the University levels in several places of the world, thanks to the investigations which they are being made scientific rigor yet, but beyond these experiences, which really serves and is undeniable is the perduración by the thousand of years of the use and undeniable benefits of this wonderful technique that has passed the judgment of the time and that every time with more force and foundation expands in the world of the present medicine.
-The Ear Acupuncture begins its history in old China when Hoang You Nei Kug began to describe it in the Treaty of Medicine of the Yellow Emperor, making its relation through the meridians (they will see in detail more advanced) between 2598 years 1698 and a.C.
- In old China 475 years a.C says that the 6 Yang meridians directly are connected with the auricle and the 6 Yin in indirect form. These old points were dispersed in the ear without a true somatotópica organization. In the Brocaded book of Silk already it is spoken of the auricle channels
- In Egypt, Greece and Rome 400 years a.C., the old doctors as Hipócrates and Galeno recommended the ring use and other forms of stimulation for several problems, particularly for you disorder them sexual and menstrual. They explained that the bled one after the ear altered the seminal liquid and that could be probable cause of sterility
- In Persia (200 years A.C.) after the fall of Rome, they cured the lumbociatalgy by means of cauterizations in the ear.
- In China, 200 years d.C injected juice of puerro behind the ear to reanimate in a faint one
- In the Average Age, 1500, the Dutch company of the east of India, while it made commerce with China, they took acupuncture from return to Europe, including the use of the Auricle-puncture.
- In 1637 a Portuguese doctor, Zacutus Lusitanus, speak of the utility of the auricle cauterizations in the treatment of the sciatic one.
- In the Renaissance, 1700, sporadic reports in Europe, they discussed the use of the cauterization in the auricle pavilion for the lightening of the sciatic one.
- Valsalva in 1717, in her work “Of Human Aure Tractus” locates the regions of the ear, for the cauterization of the same disease. Also she informs on the auricle stimulation for pains teeth.
- Acupuncture begins to know itself world-wide from century XVI through the Jesuits, but just in the last century it is that it acquires greater diffusion when in 1927, returns of China George Soulié de Morant, French consul in Beijing, founder in Paris of the Society the International of Acupuncture. By means of the doctors who worked with him, this millenarian technique spreads in the western world.
- In France, year 1950, the Dr Paul Nogier, neurologist of Lyón, observed the frequency of scars in the ear of patients who had been cauterized to alleviate their ailment of the sciatic nerve (at the moment the cauterization for the lightening of the lumbociatalgy is not necessary), only puncture, or only leans a sensorial detector to him of points and a electroestimulatión of very low intensity, that produces a cosquilleo, generated by an apparatus fed batteries is made. The Dr Nogier began to relate different pathologies to the different places from the auricle and was developing the Somatotopic Map of the ear, based on the concept of the direction inverted of the fetus in the auricle pavilion. This was presented/displayed in France, soon to the German Society of Acupuncture and finally transferred to China.
- Chinese: year 1960, an equipment of doctors of the army in Nanking verified the exactitude of the map of Nogier.
- The United States: year 1980, a study to double blind person in the University of California, statistically verified the exactitude of the Auriculodiagnóstico, relating specific areas of high pain, with an increase in the electrical activity in the ear, areas of the body with some disfunción could correctly be identified in the auricle.
TABLE OF THE 5 ELEMENTS
ELEMENTS
|
WOOD |
FIRE |
EARTH |
METAL |
WATER |
ORGAN |
LIVER |
HEART |
BAZO |
LUNG |
KIDNEY |
VICERA |
Biliary vesicle |
Thin intestine |
stomach |
Heavy intestine |
Vejiga |
EMOTION |
Rage |
joy |
obsession |
Sadness |
Fear |
ATTITUDE |
To observe |
to walk |
seated |
Laid down |
Standing up |
FLAVOR |
Acid |
bitter |
candy |
Sharp |
Salty |
ORGANIC LIQUID |
Tear |
sweat |
saliva |
Esputo |
It tinkles |
CLIMATE |
Wind |
heat |
humidity |
Drought |
Cold |
RELATION |
Nails, eyes, muscles |
Pulse, psiquis, brain |
Oral mucosa |
Skin, hair |
Bone, tooth, hair |
DOMINION STATION |
spring |
summer |
5ta station |
Autumn |
Winter |
IMPROVEMENT STATION |
Summer |
5ta station |
autumn |
Winter |
spring |
AGRAVAMIENTO STATION |
Autumn |
winter |
spring |
Summer |
5ta station |
TENSION |
Abuse of the eyes |
Abuse to walk |
Abuse to seat |
Abuse to lie down |
Abuse to remain standing up |
TENDENCY |
To call |
to laugh |
to sing |
To shout |
To moan |
ORGAN OF THE SENSES |
Eyes |
taste |
tact |
Scent |
Ear |