Tapping needling
As Klopfnadelung ( Jap. 打鍼法 , dashinhō even uchibari ) refers to a Japanese acupuncture technique , which is carried out with thicker needles and a small hammer.
Historical background
The Zen monk Mubun ( 無 分 ,? –1616) is considered to be the inventor . According to tradition, the therapy associated with a specific diagnosis was then developed by Misono Isai ( 御 薗 意 斎 ) and published towards the end of the 17th century in the "Collection of Secrets of the Needle Path" ( Shindō hiketsu-shū ).
The first western illustration of the hammer and the needle was presented by the Dutch doctor Willem ten Rhijne , who worked in the Dejima trading post ( Nagasaki ) from 1674 to 1676 . The term "acupunctura" also comes from him. The Lemgo doctor and Japan researcher Engelbert Kaempfer , who lived in Nagasaki from 1690 to 1692 , provided a similar illustration and a detailed example of therapy . None of the western authors realized that this was a new Japanese therapy that did not exist in China.
After the state-mandated introduction of western medicine in 1870, tapping disappeared from the arsenal of traditional therapists. In the seventies of the 20th century. it came to the resuscitation by Fujimoto.
Instruments
Gold or silver needles are used, which are thicker than conventional acupuncture needles because they are not screwed in, but tapped. The hammers are usually made of ebony or paulownia wood. A piece of metal is embedded in the head to weigh it down. The handle was often hollowed out to accommodate the needle after use.
execution
The traditional Chinese meridians play no role in tapping needle therapy . Instead, the abdominal region serves as a representation area for the individual organs. Their condition is determined by palpation . When needling, the fingertips of the left hand sit lightly on the skin. The needle is caught between your fingers. With the hammer you drive it in flat at the relevant point. Depending on the therapeutic goal, a number of techniques are differentiated, such as "fire needling" ( hihiki no hari ), "alternating needling " ( aihiki no hari ), "gastric relief needling" ( ikai no hari ), etc. a. m.
swell
- Anon .: Shindō hiketsushū . 1685 ( 『鍼 道 秘訣 集』 加 賀 屋 卯 兵衛 貞 享 2 年刊 ).
- Hongō Masatoyo: Shinkyū chōhōki , 1718 ( 本 郷 正 豊 『鍼灸 重 宝 宝 記』 享 保 3 年刊 ).
- Willem ten Rhijne: Dissertatio de Arthritide: Mantissa Schematica: De Acupunctura: Et Orationes Tres . London, 1683.
- Engelbert Kaempfer: Amoenitates Exoticae . Lemgo, 1713.
- Engelbert Kaempfer: The History of Japan . London, 1727.
literature
- Fujimoto, Rempū: Benshaku Shindō hiketsushū - dashinjutsu no kiso to rinshō [Annotated "Collection of the secrets of the needle path" - Basics and clinical practice of the knocking needle technique]. Tōkyō: Midori Shobō, 1977 (藤 本 蓮 風: 弁 釈 鍼 道 秘訣 集. 緑 書房)
- Kosoto, Hiroshi / Nagano, Hitoshi / Shukuno, Takashi / Ōura, Jikan (ed.): Nihon fukushin no genryū - Ichū Gen'ō no sekai [Source of the Japanese abdominal diagnosis - The world of writing Ichū gen'ō]. Rikuzensha, 2003 (小 曽 戸 洋, 長野 仁, 宿 野 孝, 大 浦 慈 観: 日本 腹 診 の 源流 ー 意 仲 玄奥 の 世界. 六 然 社).
- Michel-Zaitsu, Wolfgang: Traditional Medicine in Japan - From the early days to the present . Kiener Verlag, 2017. ISBN 978-3-943324-75-4
References and comments
- Jump up ↑ Kaempfer misunderstood the Japanese diagnosis in question , ie , the accumulation of qi in the abdomen, as "colic"
- ↑ Nagano / Shukuno / Ōura (2003), p. 115ff .; Michel (2017), pp. 78–81.
- ↑ The relationship between the two has not been clarified due to the lack of written sources. Some authors believe that it is one and the same person, others suggest a father-son relationship.
- ↑ Fujimoto (1977)
