Acupuncture

Acupuncture is the most famous part of Chinese medicine. The insertion of needles into points on the body has its history deep in the annals of China’s medical literature beginning almost 2200 years ago. Acupuncture points, known as caves or grottos in Chinese, are found all over the body along pathways known in English as meridians or vessels. Anecdotal and observed evidence over the millennia as well as modern research has confirmed that stimulating these points has both local and systemic effects on the body, encouraging functional changes in physiology. The mapping of these observations constitutes the logic of Chinese medical thought in the treating of disease.

Health and disease are considered both in terms of terrain and pathologies; a weak or imbalanced system may be more susceptible to problems.