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History of Acupuncture

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Acupuncture

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It is quite certain that acupuncture with the help of sharpened stones was already being practiced during the Stone Age. The earliest mentions of “stone needles,” called Pien in Chinese, date from about 500 B.C.

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Stux, G. (1987). History of Acupuncture. In: Acupuncture. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-71742-0_2

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