Hand Book for Acupuncture and Acupressure

Today Alternative medicines are getting popular all over the world. In fact, it has proved to be a new hope for many disappointed patients. This research work gives detailed information differences and awareness about various diseases which can be treated with Allopathy and Alternative medicines. Acupuncture is the art of healing based on the natural law of healing and a god given gift discovered by Huang Di, Father of Chinese Acupuncture. The beginnings of traditional Chinese medicine are obscure. It is believed, however, to have developed like the Indian Ayurveda system, from folk medicine and, as in Ayurveda, there is no lack of mythical explanations. The three Legendary Emperors, Shen Nung, Huang Di and Fu Hsi are traditionally believed to have been the originators of Chinese medicine. A very large part of the world’s population lives, in fact, in rural and sometimes in accessible areas where western medicine due to the constraints of its sophistication cannot easily be made available. The most potent therapeutic weapon of the barefoot doctor is the acupuncture needle at CHINA. It is safe, simple, effective and economical and can be used by personnel after a short period of training. Acupuncture, therefore, is the short term, as well as the long term answer, to the health needs of the greater part of the third world in many everyday illnesses. This is not to say that acupuncture should be used only in the absence of western medicine. Many people, even in the west are becoming more aware of the manifold and horrendous complications of drug therapy and drug induced diseases and are seeking alternative forms of therapy. But a large quantity of drugs is still consumed as home remedies in minor self-limiting illnesses. Like the common cold, tonsillitis, insomnia, constipation, headache and gastro enteritis. It is incumbent for the cultured mind of today to have an elementary understanding of Acupuncture and to employ it in such common disorders before reaching for the bottle of pills; Acupuncture is eminently applicable also in some modern situations.