• DOI:10.1136/aim.5.1.6
• Corpus ID: 70372649

Acupuncture in France

@article{Bossy1988AcupunctureIF,
  title={Acupuncture in France},
  author={Jean Bossy},
  journal={Acupuncture in Medicine},
  year={1988},
  volume={5},
  pages={6 - 8}
}

• J. Bossy
• Published 1 August 1988
• Medicine, Biology
• Acupuncture in Medicine

Over the past few years in France, the evolution of acupuncture has been very rapid. From a marginal therapeutic method 50 years ago, acupuncture is now part of current medical practice and has even sometimes an excessivefollowing. Actually the situation is now beginning to normalize. This evolution was brought about by several factors, .firstly in 1972, the revelation of acupuncture analgesia, secondly the explanation of various effects of acupuncture by, neurophysiology and neurochemistry, thirdly the side-effects of some modern therapeutics (iatrogenic and unpleasant for the patient), and finally some.indisputable successes where modern medicine has failed.