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Sentinel Star, Monday June 8, 1981 3-B Acupuncture a prickly topic in China Pulse, tion of how much of the art the doctors have mastered." Dr. He admits the best treatment is a combination of Western medicines and traditional Chinese medicine such as acupuncture and herbal tonics. Dr. Liu Zeng, vice-director of the hospital, said that if acupuncture didn't work as a pain-killer, for example, in teeth extraction, "then the patient wouldn't allow me to pull his teeth, even if there was only a little pain. He wouldn't let me." But critics are now unafraid to question the practice revived and championed by the late Chairman Mao Tse-tung.

By TIMOTHY McNULTY Chicago Tribune PEKING Chinese doctors are needling each other about acupuncture. Though once heralded as a wondrous ancient art and cure for various diseases, acupuncture now is the center of a debunking movement and controversy in China. "Doctors should not force patients to use this kind of treatment," declared one investigative team in Shanghai in an unusual swipe at the medical profession. Alleging a history of false medical reporting, the investigators said: "In the past some hospitals used Western pain-killers before giving patients acupuncture. Then they reported to their leaders, saying that acupuncture had proved effective.

This is a lie." Those fighting words were printed in the respected newspaper Wen Hui Bao not long ago and from that time the battle was joined. The investigators claimed that acupuncture has a spotty record at best and also showed, through a study of People's Liberation Army treatment of soldiers, that acupunture is used as overall treatment in only about 1 percent of their medical cases. Later, a doctor in coastal Zhejiang province wrote that patients were lied to with claims that acupuncture could cure cancers and they were also given modern pain-killers before acupuncture treatments. Adding to the fury of the acupuncturists, doctors here at capital hospital are now openly telling patients that the insertion of needles into various points of the body is useless. "We only used it," sniffed one Western-trained doctor, "because sometimes we didn't have anything else." older people seek acupuncture," said another physician in the city of Taian.

"Because they believe in it, it works. But most of us don't think much of it." Despite such disclaimers, the true believers in acupuncture still are spreading their faith far beyond China. Acupuncture clinics have been set up from Malaysia to America. An international acupuncture training forum, with doctors from dozens of countries, was held in Peking recently and other symposiums have attracted more than 150 foreign scholars and physicians. The emphasis now is on acupuncture as anesthesia rather than cure and acupuncturists claim the year history of their art is justification enough for ita use.

"It has made a real contribution to the existence and development of the Chinese nation," said Dr. He Puren of the Peking Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital. Acupuncturists claim the insertion of needles mea-'. suring from one to four inches affect the nerve system 'Ot patients. The traditional 361 points are linked by 14 lines or channels which signal the brain to release the tody's natural pain-deadening chemicals.

Some claim the proper use and placement of nee-', -I dies can cure more than 300 diseases as well as acting as a pain-killer for every type of surgery from heart and brain to Caesarian sections. Live demonstrations of acupuncture patients under the scapel have been performed before trained Western observers and they have come away believing it can be effective. One doctor, however, claims that not all patients were as happy as they appeared: "Some were feeling great pain," he said, "but they did not cry out in front of the foreigners for fear of being criticized." Dr. He, an acupuncturist for 41 years, pooh-poohs such talk. "In the past 20 years more than two million people have been cured of pain.

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