ACUPUNCTUREWORKS

Acupuncture is a healing technique with unknown origins which became popular in China sometime before the beginning of the common era. The oldest surviving Chinese medical texts mentioning acupuncture are over two thousand years of age... In 1991 a natural mummy of a man who lived some time between 3350 and 3105 BCE was found in the Italian Alps. Archaeologists called him Otzi the Iceman. Otzi had a total of 61 tattoos, consisting of 19 groups of black lines, including groups of parallel lines running along the longitudinal axis of his body and to both sides of the lumbar spine, as well as behind the right knee and on the right ankle, and parallel lines around the left wrist. 9 out of the 19 groups of his tattoos are located next to, or directly on acupuncture areas that are used today. The majority of the other tattoos are on acupuncture meridians, other acupuncture areas of the body, or over arthritic joints.