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Development and Contemporary State of Acupuncture and Related Techniques in Czechoslovakia

Development and Contemporary State of Acupuncture and Related Techniques in Czechoslovakia Developmentand contemporary stateofAcupunctureand Related Techniques inCzechoslovakia iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiil ~rl m. MUDr. R;('ha rd Umlauf,eli.:liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii. In Czechoslovakiaacupuncture and moxa havebeen known by physicians who have achieved specialisation in some since 1925 thanks to Prof. E.Cmunt from Prague who used clinical branches (including general medicine) and have it with success particularly in patients with rheumatic dis­ passed through a special training in acupuncture organised ease and lumbosciatica. However, the year 1961 became by the Institute for Further Education of Physicians and the decisive one for its further development, namely thanks Pharmacists in Prague, in Bratislava or in some of the to Prof. l. Vymaza! and Dr. R. Umlauf. The first original Regional Institutes of the National Health Service (courses paper on acupuncture was published in the Czechoslovak of acupuncture for beginners, advanced participants or Medical Journal in 1962 (its authors were Prec, A. and special courses of acupuncture). At the Medical Faculty of Umlauf, R.). In that year acupuncture wasdiscussedfor the I, E. Purkyne University in Brno obligatory informative lectures on acupuncture were introduced for medical stu­ first time in the Scientific Committee of the Ministry of Health of CSR in Prague with a positive standpoint. The dents in 1978. In the High School of Veterinary Medicine Stara Tura only in clinical national enterprise PREMA (now CHIRANA) at in Brno acupuncture has been used not began to produce the first sets of stainless steel needles practice but also experimentally, e.g. in analgesia and for acupuncture. The first scientific medical meeting of resuscitation of animals. acupuncture was held in Banska Bystrica in 1963, the first In October 1983 the Czech and Slovak sections of acu­ national conference on acupuncture with 150 participants puncture under the title of the Czechoslovak Medical took place in Ruzomberok in 1965. Since that time 10 Society of Acupuncture became a co-founding collective national conferences have been organised and Czechoslo­ member of ICMART (International Council of Medical vak congresses of acupuncture with international partici­ Acupuncture and Related Techniques) in Vienna. At the pation were held in Brno 1981 and in Bratislava 1985. 2nd World Congress of Scientific Acupuncture in May Since 1973 there hasbeen a working Committee for Acu­ 1986 in London it was charged with organising the 3rd puncture and since 1981 a Section of Acupuncture within World Congress of Scientific Acupuncture ICMART in the Czech and Slovak Medical Physiatric Society. In 1975 Prague from 28th May till 1st june 1988 as well as the the first independent department of acupuncture wasfoun­ International Theoretical and Practical Seminar of Acu­ ded within the common therapeutic and investigational puncture in Brno, 3rd-4th June 1988. Even the preliminary sections of the Faculty Hospital and Poli-c1inic in Brno­ applications allow one to suppose it will be one of the Bohunice and later two other independent departments of greatest and the most important meetings of physician­ acupuncture in Bratislava (Head: Dr.J. Smirala)and in Nitra acupuncturists not only from Europe but from all the con­ (Head: Dr. M. Mocik). tinents. It is also going to be an important step towards On the basis of methodical measures by the Ministry of granting to scientific acupuncture equal rights with other Health of CSR published in the Bulletin of this ministry branches of medicine, particularly in the industrially No. 41/1976, page 282, acupuncture and its variants were advanced countries. accredited officially as fully-approved interdisciplinary methods of therapeutic and preventive care in the Czecho­ PrimMUD, Richard Un/auf, esc slovak health service, made more accurate in the Bulletin Head ofAcupuncture Department, of Ministry of Health, No. 1/1981, pages 3-4. In Czechoslo­ Faculty Hospital Brno-Bohunice, only vakia acupuncture and its variants can be performed TOO, Jihlavska, 63901 Brno, CSSR. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Acupuncture in Medicine SAGE

Development and Contemporary State of Acupuncture and Related Techniques in Czechoslovakia

Acupuncture in Medicine , Volume 4 (2): 1 – Jan 1, 1987

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0964-5284
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10.1136/aim.4.2.7
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Developmentand contemporary stateofAcupunctureand Related Techniques inCzechoslovakia iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiil ~rl m. MUDr. R;('ha rd Umlauf,eli.:liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii. In Czechoslovakiaacupuncture and moxa havebeen known by physicians who have achieved specialisation in some since 1925 thanks to Prof. E.Cmunt from Prague who used clinical branches (including general medicine) and have it with success particularly in patients with rheumatic dis­ passed through a special training in acupuncture organised ease and lumbosciatica. However, the year 1961 became by the Institute for Further Education of Physicians and the decisive one for its further development, namely thanks Pharmacists in Prague, in Bratislava or in some of the to Prof. l. Vymaza! and Dr. R. Umlauf. The first original Regional Institutes of the National Health Service (courses paper on acupuncture was published in the Czechoslovak of acupuncture for beginners, advanced participants or Medical Journal in 1962 (its authors were Prec, A. and special courses of acupuncture). At the Medical Faculty of Umlauf, R.). In that year acupuncture wasdiscussedfor the I, E. Purkyne University in Brno obligatory informative lectures on acupuncture were introduced for medical stu­ first time in the Scientific Committee of the Ministry of Health of CSR in Prague with a positive standpoint. The dents in 1978. In the High School of Veterinary Medicine Stara Tura only in clinical national enterprise PREMA (now CHIRANA) at in Brno acupuncture has been used not began to produce the first sets of stainless steel needles practice but also experimentally, e.g. in analgesia and for acupuncture. The first scientific medical meeting of resuscitation of animals. acupuncture was held in Banska Bystrica in 1963, the first In October 1983 the Czech and Slovak sections of acu­ national conference on acupuncture with 150 participants puncture under the title of the Czechoslovak Medical took place in Ruzomberok in 1965. Since that time 10 Society of Acupuncture became a co-founding collective national conferences have been organised and Czechoslo­ member of ICMART (International Council of Medical vak congresses of acupuncture with international partici­ Acupuncture and Related Techniques) in Vienna. At the pation were held in Brno 1981 and in Bratislava 1985. 2nd World Congress of Scientific Acupuncture in May Since 1973 there hasbeen a working Committee for Acu­ 1986 in London it was charged with organising the 3rd puncture and since 1981 a Section of Acupuncture within World Congress of Scientific Acupuncture ICMART in the Czech and Slovak Medical Physiatric Society. In 1975 Prague from 28th May till 1st june 1988 as well as the the first independent department of acupuncture wasfoun­ International Theoretical and Practical Seminar of Acu­ ded within the common therapeutic and investigational puncture in Brno, 3rd-4th June 1988. Even the preliminary sections of the Faculty Hospital and Poli-c1inic in Brno­ applications allow one to suppose it will be one of the Bohunice and later two other independent departments of greatest and the most important meetings of physician­ acupuncture in Bratislava (Head: Dr.J. Smirala)and in Nitra acupuncturists not only from Europe but from all the con­ (Head: Dr. M. Mocik). tinents. It is also going to be an important step towards On the basis of methodical measures by the Ministry of granting to scientific acupuncture equal rights with other Health of CSR published in the Bulletin of this ministry branches of medicine, particularly in the industrially No. 41/1976, page 282, acupuncture and its variants were advanced countries. accredited officially as fully-approved interdisciplinary methods of therapeutic and preventive care in the Czecho­ PrimMUD, Richard Un/auf, esc slovak health service, made more accurate in the Bulletin Head ofAcupuncture Department, of Ministry of Health, No. 1/1981, pages 3-4. In Czechoslo­ Faculty Hospital Brno-Bohunice, only vakia acupuncture and its variants can be performed TOO, Jihlavska, 63901 Brno, CSSR.

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