Koryo
medicine is a national medical science created and developed by
Koreans in the long historical days of treatment of disease.
Applying
rich resources of Koryo medicines, needle, moxa cautery, cupping,
massage and other specific remedies, the medicine has contributed to
preventing and curing human diseases and protecting people’s
health.
From
old times needle was of different material, type and size.
In
the Stone Age needle was made of stone. It was called Phyomsok.
Phyomsok,
as remains of over 5 000 years ago, was unearthed at Kulpho-ri, Rason
City.
Remains
and relics of the Neolithic Age show that Koreans made stone needle
and bone needle to treat diseases.
The
Korean, living as a homogenous nation for thousands of years,
conducted steady medical activities.
With
the development of iron–making technology they made 9 types of
needle.
In
modern times more types were added.
Recently
electric needle and laser needle have been developed and used.
According
to data acupuncture and moxibustion developed more rapidly in the
17th
century and many books were published
The
book “Chimgugyonghombang”
(Empirical Acupuncture and Moxibustion ) compiled by a Korean Ho Im
(1570 ~ 1647) was widely distributed in Japan, too.
It
was published in Osaka in 1725, greatly influencing the development
of acupuncture and moxibustion in Japan.
It
is said that a Japanese learned acupuncture and moxibustion in Korea
in 642 to become a doctor of acupuncture.
Acupuncture
and moxibustion, long traditional curative methods of Korea spread to
many countries of the world in the 20th
century.
Clinically,
acupuncture and moxibustion were applied to some 300 types of
diseases in the 1970s, but to over 800 types in the 1990s.
Now,
one hundred and scores of countries are applying acupuncture and
moxibustion in preventive and curative medical care in close
combination with modern medical science.
Highly
effective view of treatment methods are being created and developed
steadily to cure obstinate diseases.
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