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The
acupuncture theory of Korea.
According to the records of
Han Dan Ancient History Chronicle of Korea, in BC 7,197, a man name of
Hwan Yin Chun Jae, while living on the Mountain in the sky, acquired an
art or knowledge which enabled him to cure the sickness in his body.
Acquiring the art or knowledge
of healing means he was able to realize that the law of Yin and Yang is
the natural order of the universe, the foundation of all things, the
mother of all changes and the basic elements of human life. The sun, the
moon, and the stars in the sky, the heavens and earth and all living
things are made up by way of being connected with the nucleus of Yin and
Yang, all living things are able to grow due to their connection with the
essence or basic core of Yin and Yang. Likewise, all change is caused by
this same connection of Yin and Yang, the essence of the Yin/Yang drives
whether things are active or not, this Yin/Yang nucleus controls what
lives and what dies, is the basis of all nutrition. The mixture of the
food and drink of the Yin and the energy of Yang is the vital principle
or animating force within the body, and serves as the model for all the
earth’s living things, driven by the mix or blending of the Yin/Yang
phenomenon.
In the book “Joo Yuk Kei Sa”,
it is recorded that without yin, yang cannot exist, and likewise, without
yang, yin does not exist. They are so solidly connected one to the other,
that there is no way to explain one without the other.
Curing the
body’s sickness
In the process of a person
ingesting and excreting the food and drink of yin, the body’s mid-section
and internal organs need to be supplied with the yang energy. This is
accomplished by a line from the surface or epidermis of the skin that
allows the Yang energy to naturally flow to the internal organs. Thus, the
acupuncturist is able to diagnose by feeling the body’s pulse as to
whether or not the body’s internal organs are actively working, and if
not functioning naturally, he can reinforce or increase the Yang energy
into the body’s internal organs through the use of acupuncture. By virtue
of the acupuncture method, all kinds of sickness can be treated and
cured, including, Parkinsons Disease, ALS (Lou Gehrig Disease), MSA,
Cerebral Palsy, and many other neurological diseases.
The skills of acupuncture is
not something that comes naturally but is a God-given skill, and once
acquiring this knowledge and skill, story has it that the acupuncturist
is not to practice this skill on bad or superstitious people or people
who doubt its curative power.
According to the department of
Physics and Oriental Medicine at Korea’s distinguished National
University of Seoul, it has been proven scientifically that there is a
line connecting the body’s mid-section and internal organs with the
epidermis or surface of the skin, and inside this line is a stem cell
that carries a gene enabling the acupuncture to cure various terminal
illness and neurological diseases.
Current day modern medicine,
by the use of advanced scientific equipment, is able to accurately
diagnose diseases, but often does not know the basic cause of these
certain diseases, such as, Parkinson’s, ALS, cancer, neurological and
muscular paralysis. So many patients with these diseases are left to
await toe inevitability of death.
The skills and
technique of acupuncture are transmitted through a highly skilled
acupuncturist.
In the 25th Chapter of the
book “Young Choo Kyung”, it is recorded that it would be a great loss if
one cannot find a suitable teacher of acupuncture skills, and, likewise,
it is also recorded that if acupuncture skills are taught to a senseless
or unworthy person, or to someone totally under someone else’s control,
that teacher will be subject to the wrath of God. Also, it is recorded in
the book, “Sohmoon Keumkye” that the skills of acupuncture, because they
are very graceful and difficult, these skills must only be taught to a
person with the right aptitude for learning. In the book entitled “Pyeng
Chak Yul Chun”, a person by the name of “Chang San” knew an individual by
the name of “Bien Chi”, and after knowing him for some 10yrs, recognized
that Bien Chi was not just an ordinary person. So, Chang San called on
Bien Chi and while they were alone together, Chang San, realizing he was
getting very old, told Bien Chi that he would teach him all the skills
that he himself possessed, on the condition he should not share this
knowledge with anyone else. Since Bien Chi agreed to this condition,
Chang San gave Bien Chi his personal gold nostrum medical book.
Up until the end of the 1st
century B.C., the art of acupuncture was handed down to others over time
but was used mostly as an anesthetic in the treatment of diseases.
The school of
Chinese acupuncture.
According to China’s school of
acupuncture theory, it is said that two people by the name of “Tae Ho”
and “Bok Hee” were the first to practice acupuncture. Another story has
it that a Chinese Emperor practiced acupuncture by using a stone needle
to cure diseases. The book also cites a person by the name of “Shin Nong”
as the originator or founder of using herbal medicine for the purpose of
curing diseases.
However,
according to the “Han Dan” ancient historical records of Korea, in 3511
B.C., a King Hwan Oung Tai Ou had 12 sons, the first or eldest son was
the 6th King named “Da Bal”, and the youngest was “Htai Ho”, also
sometimes known as “Pok Hee”. It is written that Pok Hee upon receiving a
special spirit from three heavenly gods, became well-known for his
knowledge of world affairs, then later on, a minister’s position was handed down to him, and
he, along with a fellow by the name of “Yoo Soh”, gained a reputation
around the western territories. Likewise, it is also recorded in the Han
Dan ancient Korean records, that in 3229 B.C., during the time of the 8th
King “An Bu Ryun” a military commander by the name of “So Chun” had a son
by the name of “Shin Nong”, who, after receiving a special gift from
three heavenly gods, learned the nature of all vegetation and living
creatures and thereby, as the original expert in the art of Eastern
Acupuncture, handed this expertise down through generations in Korea.
The
relationship of the ancient Korean culture heritage and China.
At one time,
Korea was governed by three kingdoms, Shilla, Paikjae, and Koguryo, and
in time, Shilla, containing the 6 tribes of Gaya, and with aid from
China, took over the other two kingdoms, Paikjae and Goguryo, making the
three kingdoms into one under its rule. Shilla seized the land south of
the Taidong river which had been held by Paikjae, and also the region
north of China which was formerly known as Manchuria and which had been
occupied by the Koguryo kingdom. At around the 5th century B.C., the
glorious Korean cultural heritage that was passed down by Korean
forefathers was usurped by some promising Chinese Confucian scholars who
gradually reconstructed the yin/yang 5 elements theory and mixed it in
the Philosophy, Cosmology, views of life and views of nature. From 2nd
century B.C., parts of the Korean theory of Acupuncture was starting to
take hold and become recognized; but in the year 79 A.D., the Confucian
scholars, without referring to any books or records of acupuncture
medical science, started advancing this Chinese 5 elements theory made up
from sketches of their own imagination, and fabricated a text of internal
medicine as though it had been handed down by an Emperor who didn’t even
exist. They entered is as though it was from the book “YungChooKyung”
(referred to earlier) and promoted this book as the new theory of Chinese
medicine designed to treat the diseases of all people. These Chinese
Confucian scholars attempted to treat people with this new 5 elements
theory but illnesses were not being cured, so people were losing faith in
this new theory of acupuncture. People did respect the art of acupuncture
but through the powerful influence of the Confucian scholars, they were
able to defame the art of acupuncture, leading to its decline in
popularity. In the year 1822, the imperial family of China’s Chung
Dynasty permanently abolished the practice of acupuncture for fear it
would harm the health of the people.
The Peoples
Republic of China Government was founded in 1949 and soon after, in 1955,
a research institute for the art of acupuncture was established, ending
what was 133 yrs of the dark period for the practice of acupuncture.
In Korea,
however, some Confucian scholars founded a Korean medical practices
school, but unfortunately, Chinese Confucian scholars wielded a great deal
of influence on them, as they started teaching the unfounded and
fraudulent yin/yang 5 elements and the 12 meridian theory of acupuncture.
By doing so, acupuncturists following this fraudulent teaching, were
really deceiving and swindling the Korean people. These faulty
practitioners put a great deal of pressure on acupuncturists who were
practicing the correct art of acupuncture in the villages with alarmingly
good results. These faulty acupuncturists were losing patients seeking
acupuncture due to the fact that the correct acupuncturist were so
successful in healing people’s diseases, so they started a campaign to
attempt to discredit them even to a point of abolishing the association
of Korean acupuncture.
China’s
yin/yang theory of acupuncture
According to China’s “Soh Moon
Yin and Yang” relativity Discussion, the combination of yin and yang is
the core of all nutrition, the natural order of the universe, the
foundation of all living things, the source of all changes, and the root
of life and death. In China’s acupuncture theory, this combination of yin
and yang is the basis for treating all diseases. This theory presents the
sun as yang, the moon is yin, and water is yin, while fire is yang. The
interior of the human body is yin, the exterior of human body is yang,
the upper part of the body is yang, the lower part is yin, and the
countless multitude of earthly things are made up of yin and yang. The
Chinese theory insists that creating the balance between yin and yang is
the basis for healing all diseases, but clinically, since the yin and
yang are not divided or separated, the theory of creating a balance
between the two to heal all diseases is nothing but the figment of the
senseless imagination of certain Confucian scholars.
China’s theory
of 5 elements of acupuncture (Reference the Emperor’s medical book)
The 5 elements theory of
Chinese acupuncture was formed on the basis of some ancient Chinese
philosopher’s imagination of herbal medicine. From ancient times, Chinese
people, in counting numbers, the number 5 was considered the standard. It
was a godly number, from the earliest times, the Chinese named 5 colors,
5 charms, 5 smells, and 5 characters. Both before and after the 1st
century B.C., the 5 elements made their appearance; wood, fire, water,
earth, and metal. According to this 5 elements theory, wood was the color
blue and assigned to liver and gall bladder; fire was the color red and
represents the heart, small intestine, and pericardium; earth was the
color of yellow and represents the spleen and stomach; metal was the
color white and refers to the lung and large intestine; water, as the
color black referred to the kidneys and bladder. The human body’s energy,
i.e., wood, fire, earth, metal, and water somehow joins in wood, and
endlessly rotates from one to the other, and illnesses are caused when
this rotation gets out of order, e.g., the energy of the pulse, instead
of going from wood to fire, goes to earth and so on with the other
elements. In my more than 50 yrs of the clinical practice of acupuncture,
I maintain that this 5 elements theory does not exist, but, as I said
earlier, it is result of the nonsensical figment of imagination of some
ancient Confucian scholars, who absurdly contend dragons from the earth
ascend into the sky and return to earth in the form of rain. The Chinese
5 elements theory in the practice of acupuncture is not the least bit
helpful in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases.
The Chinese
theory of the 12 meridians therapy
According to China’s 12
meridians theory, they contend that there is an energy line that connects
between the epidermis and the internal organs of the body, through which,
they say, one can detect whether or not the internal organs are healthy.
One can say that this is simple advancement in the practice of
acupuncture; however, in clinical practice, there is no way to find 12
meridians, they are the product of the imagination of some ancient
Confucian scholar who set forth this theory based on the law of some 3
yins and 3 yangs, whereupon they draw a line between the upper and lower
parts of the human body. This theory cannot be validated in any clinical
acupuncture documents
This is
dialogue between the king and a royal doctor named “Qibo” about the law
of 3 Yin and 3 Yang
The interplay
of yin and yang
Huangdi asked
to qibo.
“Heaven is yang and the
earth is yin. The sun is yang and the moon is yin. The upper part of the
human body is yang while the lower part is yin. However, sometimes this
does not always follow. I think that there are situations where this rule
changes, like when there three yang and three yin.”
Qibo, in reply
to this question, replied:
“With yin and yang, there
are times you can separate the two; but one cannot always strictly
separate among above, below, outside, and inside, on the other hand, when
there are suitable circumstances, one can conveniently separate numbers,
such as, ten, hundred, thousand, and ten thousand.”
The Huangdi
then told Qibo he wanted him to explain the separation and the union of
the three yin and three yang.
Qibo replied
as follows:
“The taiyang is on the
surface, and its nature is open and expansive, it is the outside. The
yangming, however, is internal and its action is storing, thus it is the
inside. The shaoyang, which is between internal and external, acts as
abridge and is considered the hinge between interior and exterior. So,
the three yang do not act separately, but rather in union. Therefore,
collectively, we consider them one yang. Likewise,the taiyin is the most
superficial of three yin channels, and its nature is expansive. The
jueyin is the deepest inside of yin. Its nature is that of storing and
thus it is considered the house. The shaoyin is in between, and acts to
connect and is considered the hinge or door. The three yins must also work
in unison. Collectively, too, these are considered one yin”
The above statements
concerning the existence of three yin and three yang have no clinical
basis, and as stated previously, they are the product of the imagination
of certain ancient Confucian scholars who arbitrarily authored this
theory. This is true also of the idea of some 12 meridians, whereupon
certain acupuncturists, without any factual basis, proceeded to deceive
and exploit people with illnesses.
The type of
Korean acupuncture treatment in the Stone Age
In the Stone Age, three kinds
of stone were used in the treatment of a tumor; small, medium, and large.
If the tumor was large, then a large stone was used; if the tumor was
small, then a small stone was used. If there was a lot of muscle in the
area of the tumor, then a large stone was used; and not, then a smaller
stone was used. Similarly, in treating a hand, foot, face, and other
small areas, then a small stone was used. In today’s clinical practice,
however, only three kinds of acupuncture is used.
The nine
needle methods which are started 1 and finished 9 are followed the
principle of Yin and Yang of the world.
1. The shear needle, 1.6 inches long
with a round head and sharp tip like an arrow, is often used for
superficial diseases and that needle is appropriate in the sky.
2. The round-point needle, 1.6
inches long with a oval-rounded tip, is used for disorders of the muscles
or for massage treatment and that needle is appropriate in the land.
3. The spoon needle, 3.5inches long
with a round needle body and slightly sharp tip, is used for blood
vessels disease and pressing purpose and that needle is appropriate in
the human.
4. The lance needle, 1.6 inches long
with a triangle needle body and a sharp and pyramid tip, is served as a
scalpel for heat-toxin abscesses or for blood-letting and that needle is
appropriate in the seasons which are spring, summer, fall, and winter.
5. The stiletto needle, 4 inches
long, 0.25 inch wide, sharp as a sword, is used for pain and drainage of
pus and that needle is appropriate in the sounds.
6. The round-sharp needle, 1.6
inches long with a thin round body and a slightly large head, is mainly
used for sudden attack of rheumatic arthritis and pain and that needle is
appropriate in the rhythm.
7. The filiform needle, 1.6 inches
long with a sharp tip and a thin body, is used for cold, heat and painful
conditions and that needle is appropriate in the seven stars and seven
holes of human body.
8. The long needle, 7 inches long
with a round and sharp tip and big body, is used to treat disorders of
the deep tissue or persistent bi-syndrome and that needle is appropriate
in the eight winds.
9. The big needle, 4 inches long
with a slightly round tip shaped as a stick, is used to treat joint
disorders due to the retention of water and that needle is appropriate in
the nine fields.
In
conclusion, then, the Chinese theory or philosophy in the use of the nine
types of acupuncture is the product of the imagination of certain
Confucian scholar. However, in the current practice of clinical
acupuncture, these nine types of instruments are not used.
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