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 * __Acupuncture__**


 * History**
 * **Acupuncture was first documented in 200AD in the Chinese text Shijii (Records of the Grand History)**
 * **Acupuncture origonated in China**
 * **Acupuncture incorporates traditional chinese medical practices as an inegral part of its practice.**
 * **Nowdays only people in mainland china still incorporate acupuncture in this way**
 * **Places like Korea and Taiwan largely do acupuncture diffrently than the mainland chinese.**
 * **The main diffrence is treatment in Taiwan and Koea consists of Acupuncture treatment withought herbal medical treatment**
 * **Although the the history of Acupuncture is largely unknown it is believed that soilders wounded by arrows were cured of afflictions that were then untreated**
 * **Some people believe that acupunture started during the neolithic age**
 * **Although Acupuncture was very popular in the beginning, as time whent on it declined in populaity unitl in became known as a techinal profession**
 * **It became associated with less prestigious practices**
 * **It was while it declined that acupunture began to spread to other countries and Europe**
 * **After the Chinese Civial War the comunist leaders ridiculed the practice of acupuncture saying that it was traditional, irrational, and backward**
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