What traditional Chinese medical procedure involves sticking small needles into the body?
Treatments for PTSD clinical trials. While it is not yet excepted medical treatment, there are often studies being done to test its effectiveness. Usually, it is used as a last resort due to the failure of conventional treatment. Acupuncture is one of the most practiced forms of alternative medicine. It involves the insertion of needles into the body by a trained and licensed medical doctor. The needles are extremely thin and are placed at strategic points throughout the body. Acupuncture has long been part of traditional Chinese medicine. The Chinese explain acupuncture as "a technique for balancing the flow of energy or life
Traditional Chinese medicines derived from the human body "Three Corpses; demonic spirits believed to live in the human body and hasten death" and "gǔdú" 蠱毒 "gu poisoning"; a poison produced by venomous insects; cast a black magic spirit possession over someone". The first "Bencao gangmu" prescription for human nails is not from Chinese medical texts but from Daoist rituals for expelling what (Cooper & Sivin (1973: 220) describe as the "Three Corpse-Worms 三尸, the chief of the "inner gods" who are to the individual microcosm what the celestial bureaucracy is to the cosmos." Prescription 52.6.1, the 斬三尸法 "Method of Beheading the Three Corpses", involves supernaturally cutting the nails