Contemporary civilization has many opportunities to know the distant past. It is thanks to the great development of archeology, we can explore the roots and history of our ancestors. Archaeological excavations in China have provided us with a number of irrefutable evidence, as the rich and the high level of development and civilization of China was already many centuries ago.

Scientists discover more and more items such as stone, bone or bamboo needle acupuncture, attesting to the fact that acupuncture has been known and used already in the last centuries of the old era (1450-105 BC).

One of the largest and most interesting books is devoted to acupuncture physician work dwunastotomowe Huang-Fou-Mi (215 -282), Fri "Kia-yi-King", in translation: "The acupuncture and cauterized."

It houses a detailed description of the energy channels running through the human body and 649 acupuncture points located within them. We can know the exact indications for puncturing of each of them, including methodology of handling needles and learn more about the old "recipes" acupuncture diagnosis of disease in various bands.

While the distribution over wit acupuncture in Poland falls on the sixties of last century, it is more its origins we must go back to the seventeenth century. Polish pioneer of research on acupuncture was Michael Boym, a Jesuit priest and missionary. While in China from 1644 became interested in Europe is different from Chinese medicine, pharmacy and herbal remedies, rustic work of translating into Latin. He was also one of the first Western writers work on Chinese medicine, including Key works of Medicine, in which he described the right balance of Ying and Yang elements and the principle of five elements. He left many works unfinished manuscripts under which Western writers created their own works. In the works of Andreas and Wilhelm Cleyera This Rhyne been published anatomical plates made by Boym, with the selected acupuncture points and meridians.

In the nineteenth century, acupuncture in Poland were interested primarily in universities. Antoni Baranowski thanks to his work on Moxy received his Ph.D. from the University of Vilnius. Also referred to acupuncture Domaszewski Joseph, who in his scientific work has described the history of acupuncture, needles characteristics, indications and contraindications, and possible postoperative complications. Both works were among the first scientific texts of acupuncture in Europe and worldwide. However, it is difficult to answer the question of what attitude to acupuncture have remained Polish doctors at that time. Probably acupuncture used a small group of doctors, primarily for the treatment of headaches, nerve pain and paralysis of limbs. Some sources say that during the cholera epidemic in Warsaw (during the Napoleonic Wars), unknown physician acupuncture treatments applied to the treatment of patients, but to no avail. Also director of the Evangelical Hospital in Warsaw, he Dworzaczek Ferdinand acupuncture as a good method for treating diseases of functional origin.