It’s a common knowledge that these therapeutic techniques have been applied successfully since – 5000 C but the practical writing down started only 3000 years later.

Apparently the need for writing it down has come out from fear that the knowledge would disappear. Also the steadily growth of additional comments, made proof of an ongoing systematically loss of sensibility of the therapists at the time.

This decreasing sensibility awards nature is a tendency, which continued over the centuries up till now, where this sensibility is most of the times not existing at all.

When in the early seventies, Richard Nixon spent a visit to China, a journalist suffered of an acute appendicitis. He passed surgery without anaesthesia and with the help of acupuncture could even follow the whole operation.

This made a huge impression, not only to the modal American, but also to some colonels from the army at “The National Institutes of Health”. They put a budget available for examination of what really happed with this bloodless pricking with fine needles on points, with the most poetic names such as “Heavenly Source”, “Palace of Boredom” and “Waving Valley”.

Lab tests revealed that the meridians of the body have the same characteristics as electric transmission lines and as the direct current, which transport them is so weak (billion parts of amperes), we could compare the acupuncture points with boosters amplifiers in a telephone cable system.

Because these transmission lines also transport pain signals to the brain, a metal needle in a booster amplifier can logically block the pain signal.

This valuable scientific explanation soon landed in the waste basket because the almighty pharmaceutical industry did not intend to lose its huge income on the “retarded Chinese”.

When afterwards it became clear that acupuncture, not only was very practical in pain control (i.e. dentistry) but was also a very effective treatment against as well chronic as acute diseases, the pharmaceutical producers really came into action. They used every possible pretext to boycott acupuncture, so that the average patient would not turn to any treatment other than the chemical pharmacy, with its indisputable profits and most of all its side effects which insure the continuity of customers by causing new problems.

Acupuncture and moxa are efficient means especially in treatment of chronic problems. The approach is empiric, holistic and energetic, it is based on the self healing principle of the body and celebrates the adage of Hyppocrates “first of all not damaging”. Some people have a natural aversion of pricking needles, but more and more they use an extremely weak current electricity, on the acupuncture points through a stick, with the same healing result.

Moxa is a method, which, by using warmth production on specific acupuncture points, can bring in yang energy to the organism.