Acupuncture in Europe, and banned in China

Acupuncture was introduced in Europe in the seventeenth century by Willem Ten Rhyne, physician of the Netherlands East India Company (1679) at Nagasaki in Japan, where he stayed for two years and by Kaempfer.

A century later, Dujardin Vicq Azyr recounted the process in their respective works.  However, it seems that Louis Berlioz, the composer’s father was the first to attempt the practice in France (1810), then was imitated by many doctors.  From 1853, the Dabry consul involved it in its distribution in Europe, but it was not until after 1927 it become popular through the work of George Soulie de sinologist Morant.
Industrial Era
Acupuncture was banned in 1822 by the Chinese emperor and abolished the program at the Imperial Medical College. But it survived.  Mao Zedong also tried to eliminate this practice – because of its foundations Taoist was incompatible with the Marxist ideology – before the rehabilitation.

Today, acupuncture in China occupies an important place in medicine for a wide range of pathologies, including hospitals, some of which have been processed in high places.  Colossal experiments were undertaken, not always in agreement with traditional Orthodox principles, leading to the proliferation of non-meridian points, and the advent of new techniques.

Taiwan found refuge acupuncturists whose teachers escaped the purges of Mao in their rise to power, remaining one of the high places of traditional acupuncture.  A French consul in China, George Soulie de Morant (1878-1955), studied acupuncture during his long stay in the Middle Kingdom, and published on his return to France a massive treaty that still refers to our days.