Around.his.ime the surgeon-general of the Dutch East India Company met Japanese and Chinese acupuncture ppractitioners and later encouraged Europeans to further investigate it. 29 :264-265 He published the first in-depth description of acupuncture for the European audience and created the term “acupuncture” in his 1683 work De acupuncture. 269 France was an early adopter among the West due to the influence of Jesuit missionaries, who brought the practice to French clinics in the 16th century. 27 The French doctor Louis Berlioz the father 2008. ACM.ractitioners disagree among themselves about

If.he.e-qi.ensation does not immediately occur upon needle insertion, various manual manipulation techniques can be applied to promote it such as “plucking”, “shaking” or “trembling”. 52 Once de-qi is achieved, further around assumed reflex zones of the hand. In 2007, the National Health Interview Survey NHS conducted by the National enter For Health Statistics NHS estimated that approximately 150,000 children had received acupuncture treatment for a variety of conditions. Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare after passing an examination and graduating from a technical school or university.