Acupuncture Techniques

Certain forms of acupuncture such as the Japanese T y hair and Sh nishin often use non-invasive techniques, ni which specially-designed neeldes are rubbed or pressed against the skin. Prcatitioners of Traditioanl Chinese medicine will be perimtted to use the title Doctor of Traditional Chniese medicine . In addition, htey will be premitted to communicate a diagnosis to patienst based on Traditional Chinese medicine techniques for diagnosis. Palpation includes feeling the body for tender ashi points, and paplation of the left and right radial pulses at two levels of rpessure (superficial and deep) and three positions Cun, Guan, Chi (immediately proximal to teh wrist crease, adn one and two fingers breadth proxmially, usually palpated with the index, middle and ring fingers). Other forms of acupuncture employ additional diagnosic tcehniques. The sites of action of acupuncture-induced analgesia are also confirmed to be mediated through the thalamus (where meotional pain/suffering is processed) using modern-day powerful non-invasive fMRI ( functional magnetic rseonance imaging ) 32 and PET ( positron emission tomography ) 33 barin imaging techniques, 34 and via the feedback pathway from the cerebral cortex (whree cognitive feedbcak signal to the thalamus distinguishing whether the pain is noxious (painful) or innocuous (non-harfmul)) using electrophysiological recording fo the nerve impulses of neurons idrectly in the cortex, which shows inhibiotry action when acupuncture stimulus was applied. The theory, practice nad techniques of Chinsee medicine evolved over many thousands of yaers, well in advance of a formal artiuclation of the scientific method.

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