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- Title
Électroacupuncture: épistémologie historique.
- Authors
Stéphan, Jean-Marc
- Abstract
The oldest therapeutic use of electricity seems to be that of the electric catfish during the 5th Egyptian dynasty of the Old Kingdom (around 2500 BC). Pliny, Plutarch and then Galen in the 2nd century AD also mentioned it in their writings. But it was not until the Chevalier Jean-Baptiste Sarlandière in 1825, then Edmond Hermel and Guillaume-Benjamin Duchenne de Boulogne, that more was known about what was then called electropuncture, a therapy related to galvanism, and then faradisation. The twentieth century will see the true appearance of electroacupuncture (EA) with De la Fuÿe and Reinhold Voll, but an EA tainted by questionable paradigms, such as diathermic homeosiniatrics or electroacupuncture according to Voll (EAV). The scientific approach to AE did not really appear until 1965 with Han Ji Sheng, Cheng and Pomeranz, etc., who objectified the intervention of endorphin receptors. From that moment on, interest in AE did not wane and the number of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and experimental animal studies continued to increase each year, making it a major component of acupuncture and related techniques.
- Subjects
ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; ACUPUNCTURE; ELECTRICITY; CATFISHES; OLD Kingdom, Egypt, ca. 2686-ca. 2181 B.C.; ENDORPHIN receptors; RANDOMIZED controlled trials
- Publication
Acupuncture & Moxibustion (1633-3454), 2021, Vol 20, Issue 2, p142
- ISSN
1633-3454
- Publication type
Article