Current State of Acupuncture Treatment in Europe(<ワークショップ>鍼灸とリハビリテーション)(第41回日本リハビリテーション学術集会)

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Acupuncture gradually spread from China to the rest of the world over the course of several centuries. Reports of acupuncture were first brought back to the west by Jesuit missionaries in the sixteenth century. A more accurate description was given by Dr. W. Ten Rhijne, a physician working for the Dutch East Indies Company in Nagasaki. Acupuncture was practiced widely by French physicians by the late nineteenth century, and the scholar-diplomat Soulier DeMorant published an influential treatise on the subject. A great surge of interest in acupuncture followed President Nixon's visit to China in 1971:in fact a member of the president's press corps developed appendicitis and was given acupuncture for postoperative pain relief.4) During the last 20-30 years in Europe, as in all western countries, Oriental Medicine has been getting more and more popular and wide-spread. It is often assimilated into a large and heterogeneous category of treatments, the "so-called" complementary medicine (CAM) or unconventional therapeutic methods, which lump together a wide range of methods with little in common except that they are outside the mainstream of medicine.
社団法人日本リハビリテーション医学会の論文
2004-12-18