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DEVELOPMENT OF ACUPUNTURE

1588 B.C. shang dynasty - acupunturist appointed under national health scheme.

420 B.C. - 220 B.C. yellow emperor - HUANG DI NEI JING book published.

400 B.C. - 200 B.C. pien chuch succesfully treated the emperor by acupunture and brought him out of coma.

150 - A.D. 200 surgeon hua discovered extra 21 points.

208 - surgen Hua orginated hydrotherapy and medical bath.

A.D. 265 - A.D. 400 Tsin dynasty during which acupunture and moxibustion developed.

A.D. 400 emperor Wei Teh ordered casting of a bronze statue on which located all acupunture points.

A.D. 510 the first hospital was established to cope up with an epidemic.

A.D. 618 - A.D. 907 the first national imperial college with a special deparment of acupunture was established.

A.D. 900 - A.D. 1000 Buddhist influence translation of indian treatises like charak sushrutha.

A.D. 1027 Wang Wei Zi Boho confirmed 657 points which he had marked on two bronze life-size figures used as models for examination.

A.D. 1443 Bronze figure showing 657 points all over the human body was made.

A.D. 1664 opening to western medicine.

A.D. 1920 Acupunture used to cure Mao's troups of malaria during revolt against national government.

A.D. 1949 Mao Tse Tung acquired power and the development of acupunture.

A.D. 1954 Acpunture anaesthesia used successfully.

A.D. 1955 Academy of traditional chinese medicine set up in Beijing.

A.D. 1971 James Ruston vice president of newyork times in china with Richard Nixon was treated by acupunture for the relief from the complication after appendicities operation. Ample coverage in the Newyork times awakened interest in the U.S.A.