Before publishing the complete and voluminous exposition I prepared on acupuncture, with precise translations of the Chinese texts, references and quotations, I decided, in order to answer the questions of many physicians, to describe here the essential part of the method, the main points, and the way to treat some diseases, in front of which Europe is more or less unarmed. The public, on the other hand, by means of this volume, will be able to distinguish, among the physicians who practice acupuncture, those who have drawn on the sources, and those who, given the great development taken by this method, pretend to apply it without having studied it, relying either honestly on suggestion, or, less honestly, on the ignorance of their clientele or even on the power of publicity. In fact, since I was the first to introduce in France the method of needles and "Moxa", which I had studied in China since 1901, thus enabling scholars in America and Europe who had only vague and confused ideas about the method to put it into practice, the experiments have multiplied more and more. Success was confirmed. It could no longer be ignored.
Before publishing the complete and voluminous exposition I prepared on acupuncture, with precise translations of the Chinese texts, references and quotations, I decided, in order to answer the questions of many physicians, to describe here the essential part of the method, the main points, and the way to treat some diseases, in front of which Europe is more or less unarmed. The public, on the other hand, by means of this volume, will be able to distinguish, among the physicians who practice acupuncture, those who have drawn on the sources, and those who, given the great development taken by this method, pretend to apply it without having studied it, relying either honestly on suggestion, or, less honestly, on the ignorance of their clientele or even on the power of publicity. In fact, since I was the first to introduce in France the method of needles and "Moxa", which I had studied in China since 1901, thus enabling scholars in America and Europe who had only vague and confused ideas about the method to put it into practice, the experiments have multiplied more and more. Success was confirmed. It could no longer be ignored.
Nel Giappone del XVIII secolo una legge puniva con la morte tutti coloro che osavano far scorrere il sangue entro le mura della città imperiale, ma Asano Naganori, giovane guerriero coraggioso e intransigente, trasgredendo alla regola, sguainò la spada di fronte alle mirate provocazioni del ministro dei Riti, Kira. Il gesto gli costò la condanna a morte ma i suoi vassalli, quarantasette samurai ormai senza signore, giurarono di riscattarne la memoria. Per un anno intero pianificarono in clandestinità la vendetta, celando il loro sprezzo per non alimentare la diffidenza del ministro dei Riti. Una storia tragica realmente accaduta, giunta fino a noi attraverso la testimonianza dell'unico guerriero lasciato in vita per onorare degnamente il valore, la lealtà e l'eroismo dei suoi compagni: quei quarantasette ronin entrati nella leggenda, celebrati ora anche in uno spettacolare film con Keanu Reeves.
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