Acupuncture for Emergencies

Acupuncture is one of the therapies in Chinese medicine. It has been used for thousands of years for the treatment of various diseases. It is getting known by people in Western countries that it is useful for chronic diseases, such as chronic arthritis, migraine, diarrhea, but it can actually also be used for the treatment of many severe and emergent conditions, such as shock, coma, heavy bleeding, stroke, drowning, CO toxic, etc. Though the conventional medicine is good at saving life in emergency room, but it cannot prevent a later terrible trouble, such as a persistent vegetative status of the survivor, and it needs complex equipments to work. We believe that the combination of the conventional and the traditional ways would work better to solve emergency conditions faster and more efficient. This book intends to give an introduction for how acupuncture is used in these emergency conditions.