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The barefoot doctor system still forms the backbone of the

medical services in rural China. In many backward areas of the

world such as countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America, and even

in the affluent countries with large rural areas cut off from the

population centres, the barefoot doctor experiment could be

adopted with a certain degree of success. A very large part of the

world’s population lives, in fact, in rural and sometimes inaccessible

areas where Western medicine, due to the constraints of its

sophistication, cannot easily be made available. The most potent

therapeutic weapon of the barefoot doctor is the acupuncture

needle. It is safe, simple, effective and economical, and can be

used by personnel after a short period of training. Acupuncture,

therefore, is the short term, as well as the long term answer, to

the health needs of the greater part of the Third World in many

everyday illnesses.

This is not to say that acupuncture should be used only in the

absence of Western medicine. Many people, even in the West, are

becoming more aware of the manifold and horrendous complications

of drug therapy, and are seeking alternative forms of therapy.

But a large quantity of drugs is still consumed as home remedies

in minor self-limiting illnesses like the common cold, tonsillitis,

insomnia, constipation, headache and gastro-enteritis. It is incumbent

for the cultured mind of today to have an elementary understanding

of acupuncture and to employ it in such common disorders,

before reaching for the bottle of pills.

Acupuncture is eminently applicable also in such modern situations

as submarine missions, off-shore oil rigs, polar research

missions and space travel*, where groups of workers are cut off

from the rest of the world, for prolonged periods.

This elementary book is written mainly as a guide to the barefoot

doctors of the world. It is hoped that it will also serve as a reference to every initiated person for methods of first aid in minor

and uncomplicated disorders. It is also directed at the Western

trained physician as a first step in understanding the methodology

of acupuncture, which can be usefully combined with scientific

medicine, to create a wide-spectrum weapon in the fight against

disease. In modern China the approach today is to combine

Western with traditional methods, both in diagnosis and therapy

(and this in fact is the approach of the teachers at the Academy

of Traditional Medicine in Beijing). The Western trained doctor will

find this approach particularly meaningful as the diseases discussed

in this book are in the terminology and semantics familiar

to him.

This book is the synthesis of the experience of treating a very

large number of patients daily at the Institute of Acupuncture of

the Colombo South General Hospital, and the teachings of the

great masters at the Academy of Traditional Medicine in Peking,

the Institute of Physiology, Shanghai, and other centres in the

People’s Republic of China, where I had the privilege to study. This

book, in fact, is a synopsis of the short teaching courses conducted

by us at the Institute of Acupuncture, Sri Lanka*.

I wish to place on record my grateful thanks to the World Health

Organization for the granting of a Fellowship in 1974 which resulted

in my obtaining the Diploma in Acupuncture in Peking, and

to the Foreign Office of the People’s Republic of China for invitations

in 1976, 1977 and again in 1979 to study the latest advances

in acupuncture therapy and anaesthesia in China.

To Professor Zhang Xiang-Tung of the Institute of Physiology,

Shanghai, a man for all seasons, who taught me the neurophysiology

of acupuncture, my special thanks for many helpful criticisms.