Ying Xia ● Guanghong Ding ● Gen-Cheng Wu
Editors

2013

Acupuncture has been practiced in China for thousands of years as part of the traditional Chinese medicine and has gradually spread across different regions of the world today. More and more patients worldwide are seeking therapeutic bene fi ts from this ancient modality. An exogenous stimulation, as with acupuncture, can trigger a signal that is transmitted through the body and elicits a biological effect. This forms the very basis of the effects of acupuncture in various disease states that it is employed in.