Special acupuncture procedures of Chinese people

According to Xinhua News Agency on the middle of September, Deputy Minister of Chinese Ministry of Health and Director of Chinese Medicine Administration Wang Quoc Cuong said that the agency has submitted a dossier of application for recognition of the non-cultural heritage. objects for Chinese acupuncture.

On September 14, Doctor Ma Zhao Can, Chairman of the Acupuncture Department of Jinan Medical Hospital demonstrated the scorpion acupuncture therapy (Toan kiet mot) to treat some diseases such as spinal inflammation, headache, back pain, rheumatism .

Currently the hospital only acupuncture has more than 100 types, each day doctors use these therapies to treat hundreds of patients.

Acupuncture in traditional Chinese medicine includes 2 parts, acupuncture and rescue. Acupuncture is a therapy that uses needles to apply certain points on the body, through a needle-based therapy, swirling the acupuncture points to treat the disease.

Rescued is a treatment that uses dry wormwood to burn the acupuncture points on the skin, using heat to cure the disease.

Acupuncture is an indispensable component of traditional Chinese medicine. In the medical book ' The weak heavenly level ' of the famous physician Ton Tu Mac in the Tang Dynasty, it is said that knowing how to light without knowing how to save or know how to save and not know how to light is not a physician.

In this work, the name of Ton Tu Mac summarized a lot of knowledge, content about acupuncture theory, acupuncture points system, acupuncture techniques and accompanying tools.

During the process of formation and development, Chinese acupuncture has a distinct identity and character of the Han people, which is a precious heritage of traditional Chinese culture and science.

However, some people object to asking for recognition of intangible cultural heritage for Chinese acupuncture.

These people believe that China has recently been in a trend to seek recognition for its heritage, considering its cultural tradition as a ' GDP-laying chicken ' because it brings economic benefits.

Sometimes people go on claiming heritage but do not attach importance to preserving and promoting the values ​​of that heritage.