East meets West – Contributions from veterinary research findings for an understanding acupuncture and related techniques from a western scientific view

Acupuncture - Acum Pungere: “to prick the point” - this is the translation from Latin. But (in one of the many westernized spellings) the Asian says “Zhen Jiu”: “Pricking and burning” - so it is not only the prick with the needle, but also other types of stimulation that offer somatomotor and somatovisceral diagnostic and therapeutic possibilities. The scientific justification of methods such as massage, acupuncture, thermotherapy (e.g. moxibustion), neural and electrotherapy will be explained to Western skeptics on the basis of various research (macro- and microanatomic, pathophysiological as well as behaviorism) results, especially from animal observations, experiments and veterinary empirical studies.