Looking at acupuncture from the point of view of bioelectricity
- Author:
Nguyen Duc Thang
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Acupuncture, bioelectricity
- MeSH:
Acupuncture;
Electroacupuncture
- From:Journal Reasearch of Vietnam Traditional Medicine and Pharmacy
2005;15():37-40
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
Acupuncture, which is a preventive and treating method without drugs of traditional medicine, has had a long-standing history. Classical acupuncture is still the main, irreplaceable treatment method (electricity acupuncture in nature is classical acupuncture which is added by electricity into acupunctured spots). When giving the needle in patients, they will react against and have pain feeling, level of pain depends on different areas of the body, whenever receptors in skin and muscle will identify and make nervous pulses that will go to central nervous system through nerves. The second electric potential appears when acupuncturing needle into the body, that is injury electric potential. The third electric potential appears when the acupuncture needle is made of metal
