Acupuncture (from Lat. acus, "needle" (noun), and pungere, "prick" (verb) or in Standard Mandarin, zhēn jǐu (針灸), is one of the main branches of Traditional Chinese Medicine (others being herbal medicine and tui na). It is a therapeutic technique from that framework intended to restore health and well-being. The term acupuncture is often used by Westerners to refer to Chinese medicine generally. The technique involves the insertion of needles into "acupuncture points" on the body by trained practitioners. Th ...

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A private watchdog group, the National Council Against Health Fraud has stated: Acupuncture is an unproven modality of treatment. Its theory and practice are based on primitive and fanciful concepts of health and disease that bear no relationship to present scientific knowledge. Research during the past 20 years has not demonstrated that acupuncture is effective against any disease. Perceived effects of acupuncture are probably due to a combination of expectation, suggestion, counter-irritation, condit ...

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Acupunture is the Chinese healing art that can be dated back at least two thousand years. Some authorities maintain that acupuncture has been practiced in China for even four thousand years.
On the most basic of levels, acupuncture can be described as the insertion of very fine into the skin at specific acupuncture points in order to influence the functioning of the body.

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Acupuncture and acupressure are two non-drug therapies which are making their presence felt in the complementary medicine scene. And acupressure and reflexology are getting the crowds because of ease of practice. But how do these gentle systems work?

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Acupuncture points针灸穴位 (also called "acupoints or tsubo") are specific anatomical locations on the body that are believed to be therapeutically useful for acupuncture, acupressure, sonopuncture, or laser treatment. Medical science does not currently understand how these points work, but cheap commercial devices can detect changes in the electrical conductivity of the skin at these points. Most of the resear ...

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Benefit may refer to: Money, goods, or services provided by a social welfare program. Employee benefits: non-monetary employment compensation. An activity performed for a charitable purpose, as in benefit concert. Benefit, an album by Jethro Tull. Other related archivesBenefit, Employee benefits, Jethro Tull, benefit concert, social welfare

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Unemployment benefits are sums of money given to the unemployed by the government or a compulsory para-governmental insurance system. Depending on the jurisdiction and the status of the person, those sums may be meager, covering only basic needs (thus a form of basic welfare), or may compensate the lost pay somewhat proportionally to the previous earned salary. They often are part of a larger social security scheme. Unemployment benefits are generally given only to those registering as unemployed, and often on conditions ensuri ...

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A benefit concert is a concert featuring musicians, comedians, or other performers that is held for a charitable purpose, often directed at a specific and immediate humanitarian crisis. Such events raise both funds and public awareness to address the cause at issue. Benefit concerts typically feature popular performers working for little or no pay. The largest such effort in recent memory was the multi-venue Live 8 concert organized by Bob Geldof, who has arranged a number of similar events. Benefit concerts were also arranged ...

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Under statute law there were historically two verdicts: guilty and not proven. The latter was a statement by the court that the prosecution had presented insufficient evidence of proof and the person was then to be acquitted. A not proven verdict is the equivalent of not guilty in that it is an acquittal. A jury in the 19th Century, rather than delivering the verdict as not proven, returned not guilty. Thus the three verdict system was born. N ...

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Much has been written about the precurseurs de Felibrige, and critics are sorely at variance as to the writers that most deserve this appellation. We shall not go far wrong if we include in the list Hyacinthe Morel (1756-1829), of Avignon, whose collection of poems, Lou Saboulet, has been republished by Frédéric Mistral; Louis Aubanel (17~8-1842), of Nîmes, the successful translator of Anacreon's Odes; Auguste Tandon, the troubadour of Montpellier, who wrote Fables, contes et autres pièces en vers (1800); Fabre d'Oli ...

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Provençal literature, Provençal literature - Introduction, Provençal literature - Origin, Provençal literature - Poetry of the Troubadours, Provençal literature - France, Provençal literature - Spain, Provençal literature - Italy, Provençal literature - Form, Provençal literature - Narrative Poetry, Provençal literature - Didactic and Religious Poetry, Provençal literature - Drama, Provençal literature - Felibrige

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In modern usage, the jury is stating the person was connected with the crime but there remains considerable doubt regarding the offender's innocence. The defendant is released without punishment or criminal record. It also provides protections from double jeopardy. The effect on public opinion can be quite different, however, as it suggests that the person is thought to be guilty but was released only because the pr ...

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The dramatic literature of southern France belongs entirely to the religious class, and shows little originality. It consists of mysteries and miracle plays seldom exceeding two or three thousand lines, which never developed into the enormous dramas of northern France, whose acting required several consecutive days. Comic plays, so plentiful in medieval French literature (farces, sotties), do not seem to have found favor in the south. Specimens which we possess of Provençal drama are, comparatively few; but researches in local archives, esp ...

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Medical acupuncture was created for Western practitioners such as medical doctors, physiotherapists and osteopaths who wish to practice acupuncture without the lengthy study of traditional Chinese Medicine theory which is usually required for acupuncturists. This Western version of acupuncture is lesser known than the traditional Chinese, but is increasing in popularity as otherwise mainstream medical practitioners in the West are taking more interest in alternative medicine. Medical acupuncture can also been seen as an attempt by orthodox W ...

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The main differences between traditional Chinese and Western medical acupuncture are as follows. The traditional theory of "points" and "meridians" is either ignored altogether or is radically reinterpreted. The concepts of disease are derived from modern Western pathology instead of Chinese medical theory. Medical acupuncture is understood to work via the modern understanding of anatomy, physiology and biochemistry. The principal di ...

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Starting in the 11th and 12th centuries in several centres it thence gradually spread out, first over the greater portion, though not the whole of southern France, and then into the north of Italy and Spain. It never felt the influence of the neighboring literatures. At the time of its highest development (12th century) the art of composing in the vulgar tongue did not exist, or was only beginning to exist, to the south of the Alps and the Pyrenees. In the north, in the country of French speech, vernacular poetry was in full bloom; but betwe ...

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The prophecy was first published in 1595 by Arnold de Wyon, a Benedictine historian, as part of his book Lignum Vitæ. Wyon attributed the list to Saint Malachy, the 12th‑century bishop of Armagh in Ireland. According to the traditional account, in 1139, Malachy was summoned to Rome by Pope Innocent II. While in Rome, Malachy purportedly experienced a vision of future popes, which he recorded as a sequence of cryptic phrases. This manuscript was then deposited in the Roman Archive, and there ...

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Prophecy of the Popes, Prophecy of the Popes - Provenance, Prophecy of the Popes - Scepticism and authenticity, Prophecy of the Popes - Interpretation, Prophecy of the Popes - Popes and corresponding mottos, Prophecy of the Popes - Contemporary Popes and the Prophecy, Prophecy of the Popes - Pope Pius X Ignis ardens, Prophecy of the Popes - Pope Benedict XV Religio depopulata, Prophecy of the Popes - Pope Pius XI Fides intrepida, Prophecy of the Popes - Pope Pius XII Pastor angelicus, Prophecy of the Popes - Pope John XXIII Pastor et Nauta, Prophecy of the Popes - Pope Paul VI Flos florum, Prophecy of the Popes - Pope John Paul I De medietate Lunae, Prophecy of the Popes - Pope John Paul II De labore Solis, Prophecy of the Popes - Pope Benedict XVI Gloria Olivae, Prophecy of the Popes - Petrus Romanus

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It was in the 11th century, and at several places in the extensive territory whose limits have been described in the foregoing account of the Provençal language, that Provençal literature first made its appearance. It took poetic form; and its oldest monuments show a relative perfection and a variety from which it may be concluded that poetry had already received a considerable development. The oldest poetic text, of which the date and origin are not surely determined, is said to be a Provençal burden (Fr. refrain) attached to a La ...

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Originally the poems of the troubadours were intended to be sung. The poet usually composed the music as well as the words; and in several cases he owed his fame more to his musical than to his literary ability. Two manuscripts preserve specimens of the music of the troubadours, but, though the subject has been recently investigated, we are hardly able to form a clear opinion of the originality and of the merits of these musical compositions. The following are the principal poetic forms which the troubadours employed. The oldest and most usu ...

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List of proven conspiracies - 1810 to 1850 the Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad was a network of clandestine routes by which African slaves in the United States escaped to freedom, with the aid of abolitionists. It consisted of clandestine routes, transportation, meeting points, and safe houses maintained by sympathizers. These individuals were organized into small groups who, for the purpose of maintaining secrecy, knew only of connecting "stations" along the route. List of proven conspiracies - 1865 Th ...

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List of proven conspiracies, List of proven conspiracies - 1st century BC, List of proven conspiracies - 44 BC Caesar assassination plot, List of proven conspiracies - 1800, List of proven conspiracies - 1810 to 1850 the Underground Railroad, List of proven conspiracies - 1865 The Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, List of proven conspiracies - 1894 The Dreyfus affair, List of proven conspiracies - 1900, List of proven conspiracies - 1919 Black Sox Scandal, List of proven conspiracies - 1950 Project MKULTRA, List of proven conspiracies - 1953 Operation Midnight Climax, List of proven conspiracies - 1953 Operation Ajax, List of proven conspiracies - 1954 Operation PBSUCCESS, List of proven conspiracies - 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion, List of proven conspiracies - 1961 The Cuban Project, List of proven conspiracies - 1962 Operation Northwoods, List of proven conspiracies - 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident, List of proven conspiracies - 1981 to 1986 Iran-Contra, List of proven conspiracies - 1993 Assassination plot against President George H.W. Bush, List of proven conspiracies - 1993 WTC terrorist attack, List of proven conspiracies - 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, List of proven conspiracies - 1998 United States and Taliban meeting regarding Osama Bin Laden, List of proven conspiracies - 2000, List of proven conspiracies - 2000 United States and Taliban meeting regarding Osama Bin Laden, List of proven conspiracies - 2001 September 11 attacks, List of proven conspiracies - 2005 Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, List of proven conspiracies - 2005 DRAM price fixing

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