The Origins of Needling Therapies
'Not Made In China'
The art of needling in its original form dates back thousands of years and is a practice that has been use by many cultures and groups of people from early civilisations. It is dates back to 4000 years BC in the times of ancient Egypt and even as far as 10,000 years BC in the times of the Stone Age and Neolithic times. It is understood that sharp stones and even fish bones were the instruments used to penetrate the skin.
It has always been known that needling the body at a point will have an effect on the body, to support relief of pain and aid in illness and disease. This comes well before the modern day understanding of anatomy and physiology and that every part of our physical body is connected in some way, either via the nervous system or by the fact that the human cell exists and ultimately we are a bundle of cells packed tightly together.
It has always been known that needling the body at a point will have an effect on the body, to support relief of pain and aid in illness and disease. This comes well before the modern day understanding of anatomy and physiology and that every part of our physical body is connected in some way, either via the nervous system or by the fact that the human cell exists and ultimately we are a bundle of cells packed tightly together.
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Carefully crafted pointed instruments were used ranging from thorns or the needles of a cactus plant to even the spikes of a porcupine animal in the North American region. In Africa it was known that scratching the surface of the skin on the body was used to aid disease. Discovery of ‘therapeutic tattoos’ on the skin of a mummified human indicates that needling had therapeutic consequences.
Ancient Egypt, Persia, India, Sri Lanka, North & South America, China and Japan are known to have been living with and using needling techniques to treat illness, disease and pain. The origins of needling span over many countries and cultures and date back to early civilization, then all the way through to the modern day. |
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Today acupuncture is practiced which is based on the theory of meridian and energy channels. Chakra-puncture is practiced based on the Science of the Nadis - the energetic cells of life.
Early man knew and understood that needle therapy has benefits, something that is still yet to be proven by modern science and how this actually works. However, it cannot be disputed that man has used needling as a form of healing due to its vast historical presence in many countries. It is proof that it was known on some level that inserting a needle like instrument had benefit and, that the fact that there is a connection between a point on the skin and some change or experience that occurs in the body.
What actually is this mechanism that seems to help and develop the human body in its physical form and also develop an awareness that is only in its embryonic state at present? If a measurement of vitality is found in ones state of awareness then the magic of accessing this is found in joining the dots to re-connect what is already living within, which is perhaps why needles of some form have been used to tap into this part of ourselves for many hundreds and thousands of years.
What actually is this mechanism that seems to help and develop the human body in its physical form and also develop an awareness that is only in its embryonic state at present? If a measurement of vitality is found in ones state of awareness then the magic of accessing this is found in joining the dots to re-connect what is already living within, which is perhaps why needles of some form have been used to tap into this part of ourselves for many hundreds and thousands of years.
