Asia- A Healing History

Traditional Chinese Medicine, also known at Traditional Asian Medicine, was born in China as herbology and acupuncture. In China the categories of herbology were grafted onto the parallel system of acupuncture in a way that doesn’t do acupuncture justice, in spite of their common heritage. Both methodologies migrated around Asia and were the dominant healing method for hundreds of years. During the modern era in Japan western medicine predominated and included acupuncture. Herbology fell out of favor but acupuncture grew and flourished. As a result herbology is much more developed in China than in other countries and the acupuncture practiced in Japan has more in common with science than Chinese style acupuncture. This is primarily because of the work of Yoshio Manaka, MD.