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CLASSICAL
ACUPUNCTURE
The meaning of life was for human beings to return
to the Dao in consciousness (or become ‘Immortals’). The
role of the alchemical acupuncturist was to educate people as to
how to live their allotted lifespan and, through judicious use
of bone and metal needles and burning herbs, to assist them in
completing their ‘curriculum’. It was always
stated that treating after the development of symptoms was, perhaps,
a little too late?
In 1935 John Blofeld met a Daoist monk at his
monastery in the mountains. This was what that monk had to
say about immortals:
“Immortals not
only break wind or belch like other people, they die.
Becoming immortal has little to do with physical
changes,
like the graying of a once glossy black beard;
it means coming to know something, realizing something –
an experience that can happen in a flash!
Ah, how precious is that knowledge!
When it first strikes you, you want to sing and
dance or you nearly die of laughing!
For suddenly you recognize that nothing in the
world can hurt you.”
THE DEVELOPMENT OF ACUPUNCTURE
AND ORIENTAL MEDICINE
By the time of the middle ages, acupuncture in China had been sidelined
in favour of herbal medicine and other oriental medical techniques. This
focus on integration and homogenization continued during the modernization
and westernization of China. Acupuncture in Japan, Korea
and Vietnam followed a different course with increasing diversification
and creation of microsystems. All of these traditions
are now emerging in the melting pot of western society.
FIVE ELEMENT ACUPUNCTURE
The theory of the Five Phases or Five Elements appears in many
acupuncture and Oriental medical traditions. One lineage
of Five Element Acupuncture became prominent in the UK in the
1960s (see Peter Eckman, In the Footsteps of the Yellow Emperor:
Tracing the History of Traditional Acupuncture) which in
turn gave birth to US Five Element colleges in the 1980s & ‘90s. The
Ongiara College of Acupuncture and Moxibustion is the first Canadian
college (in Ontario) to come from this particular perspective.
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Ongiara College
of Acupuncture and Moxibustion
1198 Ridge Rd. North, Ridgeway, Ontario, Canada, L0S 1N0. Telephone (905) 894 1323
info@ongiaracollege.ca
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