A brief history

The founder of Chinese medicine is emperor Shen Nong. In 3000 BC he started the cultivation of five cereals ( grain, yellow millet, rice, black beans, wheat). He then experimented with these plants observing which help maintain healthy and which can be used to heal, doing this he created the basis of alternative medicine.

Nei Jing is the most ancient medical tract ever found, it was written in 2650 BC by emperor Huangdi. In it is collected all the medical knowledge of the time, and the basic philosophy which undermines Chinese traditional medicine.

In the following centuries these studies spread and increases. The medical literature multiplied and of the many Chinese medical practices, two became most wide spread, Acupuncture and Moxa. Today there are many universities, clinics and research centers which focus on Chinese medicine, most of them located in China, and in some fifty other countries (including Italy).

The Western world first saw the practice of acupuncture in the late eighteen hundreds, thanks to George Soulié de Morant. He founded an acupuncture school in France. After the second World War his practice spread and finally reached Italy.

Today, in Italy, there are many institutes which doctors may attend that teach acupuncture. This practice has officially been decreed to be a "medical practice" at the end of the seventies. Professional doctors, whom have studied acupuncture, are the only ones allowed to perform this procedure, and anyone found violating this law can be persicuted for "abuse of the medical practice".

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