Word: veith
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Gold v. Steel. Before its great leap forward into anaesthesia, acupuncture had changed little. The original text is a book about 2,300 years old. Dr. Ilza Veith, professor of the history of health sciences at the University of California (San Francisco), has translated it as The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine. According to this canon, the body has twelve more or less vertical channels or "meridians," and along these are 365 points at which the insertion of a needle will have a physiological effect. These points do not follow any anatomical system recognized in the West...
...Veith points out that in many of the conditions for which acupuncture is recommended there is a large emotional factor. Acupuncturists may be practicing a brand of psychosomatic medicine in which the patient's self-hypnosis plays an important part. Dr. Tom Po-chin, a China-trained acupuncturist now living (but not practicing) in San Francisco, says succinctly: "There's nothing miraculous about acupuncture. It's pragmatic medicine, based on thousands of years of application." One certainty is that for many patients, acupuncture helps-somehow...