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Richard
A. Freiberg, O.M.D., N.M.D, D.Ac., A.P., (Board Certified Diplomate
in Oriental Medicine Family Practice - AAOMFP) began his study of Chinese
Medicine in 1971 and began to study acupuncture in 1985. In 1994, he attended
school for formal licensure finishing what is now referred to as a Bachelor
in Science and a Masters in Acupuncture & Oriental Medicine. Richard
is credentialed and recognized by Alternativa Medicina in Sri Lanka as
a Doctor of Oriental Medicine and holds two Naturopathic Medical degrees
(one from St. Luke Medical School, a recognized World Health Organization
{W.H.O.} medical school). He is a senior graduate doctor apprentice with
the world famous AIDS expert Prof. Dr. Wu, Boping M.D., Ph.D. of China.
Richard's clinic is in Pompano Beach, Florida.
Previous articles on
Chinese Medicine (CM) have addressed the use of herbs and dietary changes
to treat HIV-positive people. Moxibustion is used along with these treatments.
It is a type of therapy that has an effect on Acupuncture points, channels/meridians
and organs.
Moxibustion is more beneficial
for patients than the use of Acupuncture needles, which offers limited
benefit for people with HIV/AIDS. Although Acupuncture is very popular,
needles in reality are not the primary method of CM.
The origin of Acupuncture
and Moxibustion as a subset of Traditional CM (TCM)therapeutic techniques
appeared about 4,000 years ago with Fu Xi's creation of stone needles.
(1) Fu Xi and the Yellow Emperor (Huang Di) actually were the more modern
representatives of the clan commune of China's primitive society. TCM activities
in China first appeared about 1.7 million years ago, while clan commune
activities appeared about 100,000 years ago.
The Chinese term, ZHEN-JIU
translates as 'needle-moxa', which is a more accurate term for this branch
of ancient Oriental Medicine.
The 1997 National Institute
of Health (NIH) consensus development conference on Acupuncture offered
it's resulting key definition as: "Acupuncture describes a family of
procedures involving the stimulation of anatomical locations on the skin
by a variety of techniques." There are a variety of approaches to diagnosis
and treatment in American Acupuncture incorporating medical traditions
from China, Japan, Korea, and other countries.
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