ABSTRACT
Acupuncture has been a continuously practiced medical tradition for over 2000 years, which is quite remarkable. Its longevity is largely a result of the way it has evolved and adapted over the centuries in reaction to changing social and political circumstances [1]. In the last century, acupuncture and its underlying theories were shaped as a result of contact with what was termed “Western medicine,” and the need for its proponents in China to provide a justi cation for traditional Chinese medicine in a way that was more consistent with the biomedicine that had arrived from the West [2].
