Could Acupuncture Be Older Than Dirt?
Myth Or Ancient Medicine?
Some healers and other experts think so! The earliest writings come out of what is now India not China like many once believed. Here are just some the quotes you can read about how many ancient cultures enjoyed health through natural medicine including acupuncture. Our acupuncture office in Denver specializes in Vedic or Egyptian Style treatment of acupuncture.
Debra Arko Novotny's uses muscle testing or applied kinesology to access her patients Qi or energy and treat them with painless acupuncture. She then begins treatment the ancient way - the Vedic or ancient way which includes essential oils, massage, and natural physical therapy using stretching to open the body and promote healing. This is all part of painless acupuncture treatment.
This form of acupuncture is not new - the secret of this art is been well hidden and now is revealed in a few modern texts on ancient Indian medicine.
"Marma points (Ayurvedic pressure points); the origin of Acupuncture."
Marma points are important pressure points on the body, much like the acupuncture points of Traditional Chinese Medicine. One finds the first reference to them in the Atharva Veda and they are elaborately dealt with by Sushruta. Like the Chinese acupuncture points, Marma points are measured by the finger units (Anguli) relative to each individual. Their size is measured by finger inches and their location determined by them."
Prof. Dr. Subhash Ranade. PhD. (1993) Natural Healing Through Ayurvedic. Passage Press. Utah USA (pp 161-)
" When in former periods of history, India and China were one big cultural unit, the teaching of the Five Elements was developed out of the knowledge of the Veda, and with it the Ayurvedic as the medicine for the people. The Marma-therapy, namely Acupuncture is a special technique of the former. Acupuncture and the medical philosophy on which it is based, is not purely of Chinese origin. The texts of Veda which are dated still further back than the first Chinese ones as well as the contemporary Ayurvedic texts (2000 BC) give many hints that these thoughts were already moved much earlier. Thus it can be assumed that Acupuncture was practiced already 5000 or 10000 years ago, long before the Mahabharata war which had
Dr. Dietrich Kluber M.D. (1994) Acupuncture and Its Indian Roots. Lichtwortverlag, Kuddeworde. Germany. (p. 79).