How long has acupuncture been practiced?
As a medical system, acupuncture is over 2500 years old, and may have been practiced in China in a rudimentary form 5,000, even 7,000 years ago. The oldest continuously used medical textbook is Huang Di Nei Jing (Yellow Emperors Internal Classic). Huang Di Nei Jing is the foundation of traditional Chinese medicine, and remains a valuable reference on the theory and acupuncture techniques that practitioners still use today. The practice of acupuncture has evolved and developed in the last 2500 years, many new techniques have been developed, and continue to be developed today.
