Why Acupuncture Is The Fear Of Pain

Vietnamese traditional medicine has always been under the shadows of Chinese medicine. During the fourteenth century, a Vietnamese physicist by the name of Tran Canh practiced acupuncture on his patients. He used acupuncture to save the life of a King from drowning. Acupuncture involves pricking the skin with needles to relieve pain and to treat multiple physical, emotional, and mental conditions. Another medical physician by the name of Nguyen Dai Nang wrote a book called “Collection of Acupunctural Techniques and Methods” which served as a reference for later medical findings. So the question is, Does acupuncture hurt? The most common reason why people forgo acupuncture is the fear of pain. Acupuncture is actually not unpleasant although