Monday, September 22, 2008
Acupuncture History
In Europe, was found in 1991 in a glacier located across Italy and Austria a body frozen, and relatively well preserved by a man nicknamed Ötzi by scientists. This man, preserved in ice for 5 300 years (and who lived around 3300 BC. Approx.), covers his body a number of tattoos. An Austrian team noticed that among the 15 groups of traits that were tattooed Ötzi, nine were close to points of Chinese acupuncture.
However, as noted by L. Renaut, "the current practice identifies 670 points symmetrically distributed throughout the human body along meridians of 12 (or channels) and two bilateral axial meridians. The surface of the human body is literally constellation of entry points can be estimated as lacking any kind of statistical significance that the tattoos of Ötzi, elongated and quite widespread, coincide from time to time with some of these points.
However, as noted by L. Renaut, "the current practice identifies 670 points symmetrically distributed throughout the human body along meridians of 12 (or channels) and two bilateral axial meridians. The surface of the human body is literally constellation of entry points can be estimated as lacking any kind of statistical significance that the tattoos of Ötzi, elongated and quite widespread, coincide from time to time with some of these points.