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Acupuncture in Cardiovascular Diseases

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Acupuncture is one of the Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) techniques, and its history has at least 3000 years. The origin is in China and the Chinese name is Zhenjiu meaning needle and moxa, the two ways used to stimulate the acupoint. The occidental word “acupuncture” comes from Latin word acu (needle) and punctura. Acupuncture is the treatment of illness by sticking needles in the skin in particular points on the body’s surface named acupoints. These points, described for the first time in a book in the second century BC, the Huang-di Nei-jing the Emperor Huangdi’s Canon of Medicine, are the same used today for the medical treatments [1].

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Lupi, G., Cormio, M. (2017). Acupuncture in Cardiovascular Diseases. In: Fioranelli, M. (eds) Integrative Cardiology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40010-5_4

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