针炙医学起源于我国远古时代。古代原始社会的人类,由于居住在山洞,里面阴暗潮湿,再加上与野兽搏斗,经常会发生风湿痛、创伤痛。当身体某处有了痛楚时,除了祈祷鬼神外,很自然地会用物件去揉按、捶击,以减轻痛苦,或用一种楔状石块叩击身体某部,或放出一些血液使疗效更为显著,从而创用了以砭石为工具的医疗方法,这就是针刺的萌芽。《山海经》记载有“高氏之山,有石如玉,可以为箴。”这是远古人类以砭石代针治病的佐证。 Acupuncture medicine originated in ancient China. Ancient primitive society of mankind, living in the cave, which is dark and humid, coupled with the beasts fighting, often rheumatic pain, traumatic pain. When there is a pain somewhere in the body, apart from praying for ghosts and gods, it is natural to use objects to knead and thrash to ease the pain or knock a certain part of the body with a wedge-shaped stone or to release some blood for healing More significant, thus creating a medical stone tools as a tool, which is the germination of acupuncture. The Book of Mountains and Seas records that “the mountains of Mt. Gao and jadeite can be Probes.”