Chinese food, acupuncture, martial arts, Chinese medicine reputation overseas, to be called the "new four quintessence of Chinese culture." Acupuncture is the second meal is another spread in the West, the essence of Chinese culture, but also China's real impact of Western science and technology, an area. Although Chinese medicine with the very early Chinese immigrants to the United States, whether private or official have recognized acupuncture therapy is officially introduced as the Nixon visit to China the United States. Many Americans are aware of that year caused "acupuncture fever" of the fuse is published in the New York Times a story.
In the United States acupuncture community and the medical profession the most widely circulated a rumor on the acupuncture into the United States is this: In the Nixon Delegation members, accompanying a young reporter in China, is suffering from appendicitis, was admitted to the Chinese Hospital. Chinese doctors are doing appendectomy surgery, there is no use of acupuncture analgesia local anesthetic but with anesthesia, surgery was very successful. The reporter back to the U.S. after the New York Times published an article about his personal experience, which led to the United States, acupuncture heat.

The story of the medical profession may be called "beautiful legend," then what is historical fact do?
The original New York Times author is well-known American journalist James Luo Sidun (JamesReston) President, then he is the Washington correspondent of The New York Times station director, specializes in political and current affairs coverage, and his extraordinary performance, interviews and a few collected from Roosevelt to George W. Bush Annual Meeting of American presidents and Zhou Enlai, and Khrushchev and other countries leaders. Luo Sidun won many press awards, and later served as vice president of the New York Times, died in 1995.
The fact is that Sino-US relations began to ease after President Nixon's visit to China before July 1971, Luo Sidun was sent to cover events in China, in Beijing, visited a number of units, including the Chinese Medicine Hospital visited the acupuncture treatment. However, during his visit, unfortunately, is suffering from acute appendicitis, in China, the hospital received appendectomy surgery, intraoperative use of conventional medicine anesthesia, postoperative abdominal distension feeling unwell, received acupuncture treatment, followed by on July 26, 1971 at the The New York Times published his famous documentary reports: "Now let me tell you my appendectomy surgery in Beijing."
1971 Luosi Dun is a senior reporter with more than 60 years of age, and because of his extraordinary experience and the status of the New York Times in the press, in the eyes of ordinary Americans, so that journalists write articles, credibility is extremely high, and there was also a time when the White House just announced that President Nixon would visit China in 1972, the American public for their great power --- not to mention the East China there is a sense of mystery, while the Luo Sidun the article just to satisfy the majority of the reader's curiosity.

Luo Sidun in the article wrote:
To commemorate the loss of the appendix and published obituary seems a little absurd, but it is because of this, the author in the past 10 days have the opportunity to learn from within a major hospital in China's political and business developments. This report is my record of experience and informative.
In short, the Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai invited 11 medical authorities in Beijing for my consultation, and then by the Anti-Imperialist Hospital (formerly the Beijing Union Medical College Hospital, Translator Note) surgeon Dr. Wu on July 17 using the conventional abdomen local anesthesia, injections of lidocaine and stupid Zocca because, in order to I have done appendectomy.
Surgery without any complications, there is no nausea and vomiting. I have been throughout the surgical process in a conscious state. Through the translation of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, in my surgery done in full accordance with the requirements of Professor Wu, the two and a half hours after the successful return to my room.
However, after the second night, my stomach hurt like a kind of non-pain feeling uncomfortable. Dr Lee Acupuncture Division of the hospital with the approval of my consent, with a thin needle in my right elbow and both knees under the bar outside the three-pin, while needles to stimulate the hands twisting my stomach in order to reduce peristalsis abdominal pressure and bloating.
Acupuncture to produce bursts of pain in my body, but at least distracted of my abdominal discomfort feeling. At the same time, Dr Lee again two burning like a cheap cigar-style herb Ai volume on my stomach at the top of BBQ from time to time to twist my body moving needle.
All this took 20 minutes, however, when I would like to use this method of treatment of abdominal pains is a bit too complicated, but less than one hour, I felt significantly reduced abdominal distension, and never after the recurrence.
According to my information, most recently from China on the acupuncture cure blindness, paralysis and mental illness are many reports have speculated that the Chinese people to make the United States is likely to acupuncture and herbal medicine has made a new major breakthrough. But I do not know these speculations are correct, I am not qualified to make such judgments.
On the other hand, some people talk about my accident, or at least the experience of acupuncture is only to make a reporter look insignificant skills in order to achieve the purpose of acupuncture anesthesia. While this criticism is not entirely unfounded, but it is my imagination, courage and spirit of sacrifice flattering. In order to be made into the news well, I really can make a lot of sacrifices, but not a surgery or take the initiative to go middle of the night to go to the Netherlands when the experimental pigs.

Read the original, I am Luo Sidun worthy of known international journalist. The article is not only clear, concise, but also humorous and interesting. More importantly, the author simply and accurately report their own their knowledge and experience, are not familiar with his own medicine, acupuncture does not make improper comments, a mere description of the facts, and no grandstanding, made news of the move. However, this article on the popularity of the historical role of acupuncture, I think even the author does not expect.
It is said that in the acupuncture hot at first, because United States has not yet established diplomatic relations in the United States very few people understand acupuncture, so a time "Luoyangzhigui." Every day, in patients with large buses pulled from Washington to New York to find acupuncture doctor, acupuncturist business is hot, terribly busy, so consulting room is not enough patients in the rented hotel reception. Zhigu acupuncturist too busy to give the patient an acupuncture treatment, even taking the time needles were not, had to hire assistants to needle injection. Some acupuncturists do business well, a week of income could buy a house. Of course, due to understandable reasons, this early acupuncture fever did not last long.
The true story with the United States "folklore" in comparison, although on the face of thing in detail, but the story is still largely the same. This folk "oral literature" Although credibility is not high enough to serve as historical evidence, but the fact that folklore during the course of rendering itself fully reflect the spread of the good wishes of people the story.
The Chinese saying goes, is called "draft forget dig wells," and remembering our ancestors invented acupuncture and has created a proliferation of the Chinese nation's health and prosperity, while the West should remember that and then done a lot for the contribution of acupuncture Chinese and foreign doctors and scientists, social activists and patients were also not forget that American journalists Luosi Dun and his 30 years ago was published in The New York Times on the "trip to Beijing."