An Old Technique Brings a New World

　　Life ages and gets sick. For such a long time, people have been used to take drugs and have injections, while they do not work very well, though. The same old syndromes or symptoms occur time to time. They are not cured actually. For suffering the pain, our ancestors have been engaged in finding ways to keep health and stop aging. In modern time, the travel of discovery is still going on, for the people nowadays are suffering more and more endless pressure. We do not do helpful exercise any more. We are too busy to have a nice bath. Unconsciously, health is gone away.
　　 Irony is that we did not notice the change. Many people grant staying up late, ill-balanced feeding, smoking, sore waist or aching back as normal things in daily life. Invisible dangers in losing health are neglected. More and more the twenties go to the hospital to do rehabilitation, and the forties, look like old men. We all know it is not caused by disease. However, we can not stop it either. Go to see a doctor? Yes, but we usually get the answer that you are just tired and you'll be fine after taking some pills and a rest. However, we are not fine after taking some pills and having a rest because the life style is not changed. Gradually, the western medicine we are used to believe seems to do no favor any more in the modern life. The same questions may be asked all the time, "Why can't my syndrome disappeared after taking pills so many years?" "Does the doctor make the right diagnosis in two minutes?" "I am used to take hypnotics. Now I have to take more pills then ever had every time."
　　 These are the problems that western medicine has to solve eagerly today. These changes remind us that human beings still belong to the nature instead of being controlled by chemical matters. Thus, the eastern medicine which is lasting for more than two thousand years stands out conspicuously once again. It is noticed by the whole world to take us away from pain and stay young by natural approaches. It is called Alternative Medicine - also Folk Therapy in Chinese. A century ago, the alternative medicine is not accepted by science yet. Until the middle period of the 90s, it is still not granted as the main stream of medicine. Senator Tom Harkin noted that we do not pay enough attention to the medicine and that we should change our sense, manners and concept to prevent diseases and take care of our own health. What he said is the reason why alternative medicine can remain unshakable and even firmer as time goes by.

63% of Our Maladies Can be Cured by The Body's Natural Defense System ~ Statistics from WHO ~

　　In fact, each people with long culture and civilization has its own folk therapy. It is handed down generation to generation. Some of the therapies lost their textual criticism, such as the grandmother's egg liquors, ginger soup and the curing herbs of Indian tribe. Even nowadays, in Taiwan and other areas, people still believe that burning a joss stick can get rid of sickness. It cured the mind before the body, even not encouraged in science field. However, sometimes two cats with the same wound, the one who took drugs and had injections is not remedy as fast as the other one who was only licked by its mother. It is the magic power of the original potential of the living!
　　 How can our ancestors know so many ways to make people feel comfortable? One of the simple answers is that they observed and found the advantage of our natural body energy. There are many forms of energy existing in the universe, for example, light, heat, wave, magnet, electricity, pressure, etc. The bio-energy of human body is one of them. The name of "energy" may be too unfamiliar to the Chinese, while the "Chi" shall be more understandable. It travels around our body to make us be as a projectile and receiver. We contact and react to the message from outside world. The nervous sensor near the skin surface is just like a radar system to take the responsibility of receiving and projecting energy. Only healthy energy brings us health body.
　　 The alternative therapy is the therapy that takes the advantage of acceptable signal stimulus, such as cold, heat, pressure, electricity, etc. to excite the potential energy to carry out normal functions of all organs and tissues. The methods include taking vital food, palm treatment, massage, sit in meditation, Yoga, deep thought, breathing technique therapy, Chinese medicine, medicinal herbs, aroma-therapy, crystal treatment, bee-sting treatment, energy treatment, acupuncture, bio-electrotherapy, etc. They are used to operate in coordination with each other to recuperate physical harmony, strengthen our resistance to infectious diseases, and tone up the immunity against diseases. Among these, the treatment with electricity is the more effective one.

Alternative Therapy Fires the World

　　According to the 1997 statistics, the cost took in alternative therapy in America is 27 billion dollars, and the number of people who took alternative therapy is 83 millions, 31% of all Americans. The Australians also spend about one hundred million of Australian dollars (about 2 billions NTD) in alternative medicine. In present Taiwan, there have been more than 80% of high-educated people accepted alternative therapy, not to mention the Chinese herbal stores prevailing on streets for a very long time. Now W.H.O. and F.D.A./USA begin to pronounce the therapy. They even set hundreds of millions of yearly expenditure in research institutes and required credits in medical schools. Before the main medical stream solving the modern healthy problems, the alternative therapy that aims at prevention and radical cure becomes a new star in medicine. The medical institutions in many countries have recognized its concepts, principles and philosophy.
　　 In 1996, the alternative medical institution was established in America. The American national hygiene research station also starts doing a lot of studies and examinations about alternative therapy. Taiwan's hygiene researchers do the same thing too. With these institutions established, a new perspective of treatment and remedy is pictured to all doctors, patients and common people.
　　 At the time of carrying out "medicine for everyone", "family medicine" and "prevention medicine" by the government, we are inculcated that one shall reduce relying on drugs, decrease medicine dosage, tone up the body potential function, coordinate with the natural treatment and then reach the result of healthcare and preservation. From now on, we suggest you to cut down medicine gradually, because our body would pay hard for overtaking drugs and it is not worthy.
　　 The alternative therapy not only cures the diseases but also the discomforts in psyche. Its final destination is to make people live happier and easier.

Electro-acupuncture

1. Acupuncture

　　Acupuncture is the pride of Chinese. Thousands of years ago, before the anatomy developing, Chinese ancestors had figured out a whole body meridian graph (the Yellow Emperor Internal Meridian). Passed generation to generation, we still found very few mistakes from it. However, when the Chinese people granted it as declined tradition, the western world begins to be crazy about it. Until the foreigners cherished the unique treatment didn't the Chinese turn back to re-concentrate on it.
　　Why does acupuncture capture the whole world in decades? The invisible and inaudible power of the body meridians gives a shock to the people who are used to believe the science that everything must be proven as data. Even the most delicate device cannot verify the existence of the meridian. Nevertheless, the truth is that only a tiny needle injecting into the auricle, one is local anesthetized. Since the anesthesia is deep enough to have a heart operation, not to mention the acupuncture efficacy on stopping bleeding, losing weight, and relieving pain.
　　 The traditional acupuncture theory is based on the meridians. There are 14 known meridians in our body, each of them with many acu-points. The matter traveling on the meridians is the body energy called Chi. It is the fountain of the life composed with Yin and Yang. When Chi flows through these meridian paths, it would keep changing with the body motion and outside stimulation. The destination is the organs. Once the meridians get hurt or sick, the Chi would be stopped or disturbed, and the organs, imbalance. Thus, one feels under the weather and gets sick. The principle of acupuncture is to use needles stimulating the acu-point and then tone up the meridian. When the meridian is normal again, the Chi would flow smoothly too.
　　 The acupunture entered the western world in 18^th century. But it had been listing on the investigational items of the FDA legal documents for a long time till November 3^rd, 1994. In 1994, a national coalition of acupuncture needle manufacturers, schools, organizations, and individual acupuncture practitioners and users petitioned the FDA, the national medical devices regulator, to change the legal status of acupuncture needles from "investigational" to "safe and effective for intended use." The approval of FDA is always granted as world hygiene standard. That is, from then on, the patients got one more trusted choice to treat their diseases and syndromes.

2. Electro-acupuncture

　　Electro-acupuncture is combined with needle and electricity for clinical treatment. It is the same to the traditional acupuncture on basic principle but the method. The body energy mentioned above is from the elements that constructed our tissues, such as oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, chlorine, phosphorous, potassium, calcium, iron, etc. They exist in our body as ion status, organic molecules or inorganic molecules in the blood, lymph, cerebrospinal fluid and body fluid among tissues. They produce energy whenever they action. Later we found that the inherent energy is like electricity and call it bioelectricity, with the flowing of the ions. It is very important to our normally physical functions.
　　 The bioelectricity changes because of different stimulation from the outside world. Under the worsening circumstances, the bioelectricity does not stay calm. On the contrary, if we input suitable stimulation to the body, the body would revive. For this reason, various stimulating parameters of different devices, including, amplitude, pulse width, pulse rate, presetting time, rhythm, are designed by engineers. The enrichment of body energy is based on the principle of complement of Yin and Yang. With the efficacy of exciting and steadiness, cells are vibrant, potential energy is balanced, immunocompetence is strengthened, and organic functions are increased. The effect is obvious on homecare, healthcare, pain relief, and chronic disease prevention.
　　 The idea of the electro-acupuncture was from the French in the 19th century. Since the day traditional acupuncture spread into the French in the 17th century, vest interests began surfing through the Europe. During 200 years, the traditional needle had been combined with electrical medicine and the electro-acupuncture developed. The first person used electro-acupuncture on curing neuralgia and rheumatism was a French doctor. By a century of tests and studies, British and French doctors finally announced that neuralgia could be cured by electro-acupuncture.
　　 The approved procedure of electro-acupuncture is not so smooth, but luckier than the traditional acupuncture. However, the foundation of acupuncture is so firm that no one can overthrow it even the medical science. The principle is to stimulate the abnormal meridian via the acu-points to reach the same result of penetrating a needle into the skin. The research of electro-acupuncture in Mainland China has been lasting for half a century. They declare the electro-acupuncture at least possesses following good points:

1. When one is treated with electrotherapy, the bioelectricity would be excited. Especially for treating the diseases that is hard to be cured, the electro-acupuncture gives a better remedy.
2. Electro-acupuncture provides a long-term and multi-waveform treatment. One would cost little energy and time to get a better effect.
3. The intensity of electro-acupuncture is adjustable for suiting different syndromes and requires. Meanwhile, the therapeutic parameters can be recorded and leave for further researches.
4. For those ones who need stronger stimulation, the stimulation by electro-acupuncture is more acceptable than that by twisting with hand.

　　The good points of electro-acupuncture are not only figured out on medical field but also in our daily life. After work, city people are getting to leave their own health to other people, such as having a steam bath or a massage by a machine chair. They may have effects in preserve, by wasting too much time and money. But it still wastes too much space. By the way, all these treatments are according to the principle of toning the meridians up in our body, only that the electro-acupuncture spends the least time and energy to reach the best result. General treatments usually have drawbacks such as the following: First of all, one has to find the exact acu-point. The acupuncture specialist can find the exact point in the tolerance of 0.5mm . However, we do not suggest common people to take the adventure. However, the finger-point massage and having a bath are not work on the acu-point exactly so that the effect is not so good as what we looked forward to. That is why we have to find the right place of the acu-point. The second is that one has to give the suitable intensity and frequency of stimulation. Even on the right acu-point, wrong stimulation may waste your energy too. The treatment time of stimulation is the key point too. The third is that one can not do the massage on any region of the body by oneself, such as the back or the shoulder. Even one can do this, his/her hands would never be relaxed by keeping pressing for a long time. Therefore, we designed the electro-acupuncture to revive the bio-energy by electric pulses. Anyone can adjust the intensity and frequency to process electrotherapy without any help. No doubt, the electro-acupuncture has become a personal healthcare treatment.