Acupuncture Points in Medieval European Medicine to Treat Pain and Inflammation

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.51507/j.jams.2024.17.6.187" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.51507/j.jams.2024.17.6.187</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.51507/j.jams.2024.17.6.187" target="_blank" >10.51507/j.jams.2024.17.6.187</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Acupuncture Points in Medieval European Medicine to Treat Pain and Inflammation

Original language description

In the previous article, the author demonstrated the close relationship between bloodletting practices in medieval Europe and acupuncture in Traditional Chinese Medicine. This study aimed to explore how acupuncture-based treatment was applied in medieval Europe. The author hypothesizes that the physical stimulation of acupuncture points associated with bloodletting was one of the main methods of pain management at that time. The study examined the indications for phlebotomy as depicted in the original illustration from Practica Medicinalis written by the 15th-century Archbishop of Prague, Sigismundus Albicus, supplemented by two other European medieval medical manuscripts. A total of 76 distinct symptoms (corresponding to 25 bloodletting acupuncture points) from the Practica Medicinalis illustration were assembled into four groups: 1) Pain and inflammation symptoms; 2) Symptoms commonly associated with pain and inflammation; 3) General symptoms affecting various organs and functions; and 4) Conditions unrelated to pain or inflammation. Among the 76 symptoms and 25 acupuncture points, only nine symptoms and a single bloodletting point were not associated with the treatment of pain or inflammation. This suggests that acupuncture-based therapy was an effective method for managing pain and inflammation in the Middle Ages and that such treatment could still be valuable from a modern clinical perspective.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30105 - Physiology (including cytology)

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Acupuncture and Meridian Studies

ISSN

2005-2901

e-ISSN

2093-8152

Volume of the periodical

17

Issue of the periodical within the volume

6

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

187-195

UT code for WoS article

001384861100001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85213933746