Deases and treatments

Accupenture,a systen of treatment of diseases,has been practised in china for nearlyfive thousand years,it consists in the rapid insertion of fine steel needle,about six centementers long ,in particular spots on the doctor tiwrls it between his thumband forefinger.There are hundreds of acupunture points on the body when a puncture is made on spot on the body ennergy flows from there along lines known as 'meridians to the diseased organs.This flow of energy helps to restore the balance of the system and thus correct the disorder.This points of treatment may be far form the seat of the disease.For example ,to cure a toothace ,the acupunturist may insert a needle on the palm of the patient.
Althrough China is considered to be the country where acupunture orginated.some forms of treatment resembling it have been reported form other parts of world by anthropologists.Among some ancinet tribes,stones and arrows were used to prick the skin.In another form of treatment the skin on paticular spots of the bodywas burnt to effect a cure for certain diseases.Whether these kinds of treatment can rightly be classed with acupuncturre can be known only after further research.