The Introduction And Local Practice Of Electrotherapy In Modern China

During the late Qing Dynasty,electrotherapy was introduced to China,and the foreign knowledge of electricity and medicine met with the traditional Chinese medical knowledge to form the "electromagnetic body view"."Electricity" and "qi" in Chinese traditional medicine have similarities,they are both ubiquitous,and have two opposite properties of yin and yang,the channel of qi running in the human body is meridians,electricity running in the human body is the channel of "brain qi They both have an impact on human health,which forms the first electromagnetic view of the body.In addition,the "sexy electrical theory" imported from Japan combined with other ideas and knowledge resources at that time,forming another electromagnetic view of the body,that the two sexes have two different nature of electricity in the body,they will interact with each other,affecting human desire and fertility.Electrotherapy in the West has experienced the development from electric fish to artificial electricity,in modern times gradually perfected,the market also appeared a lot of electrotherapy goods.In the late Qing Dynasty,electrotherapy was first introduced by missionaries,and the earliest group of people in China who were exposed to electrotherapy were probably government envoys sent abroad,in addition to some overseas students and local Chinese high officials who were also exposed to electrotherapy.During this period,some electrotherapy commodities also appeared in China,mainly advertised in the press.Among them,the most influential electrotherapy commodities originating from the United States,the Chang-ming-tien-che-dah,embodied the first electromagnetic view of the body and participated in shaping this electromagnetic view of the body.During the Republican period,more articles and books introducing and promoting electrotherapy appeared,mostly by Chinese people.However,due to the different understanding of electrotherapy,there is a difference between the broad and narrow sense of electrotherapy.Generally speaking,the broad sense of electrotherapy corresponds to the direct and indirect effects of electricity on the human body,while the narrow sense of electrotherapy corresponds to the direct effects of electricity on the human body;when taken in the broad sense,electrotherapy includes X-ray and ultraviolet therapy,while when taken in the narrow sense,it does not.During this period,the Chinese had a more systematic and in-depth understanding of electrotherapy,which could be broadly divided into two categories: direct current electrotherapy and alternating current electrotherapy.In addition,the education of electrotherapy and the practical application of electrotherapy were developed in China,some universities and private colleges offered courses in electrotherapy,many hospitals had electrotherapy equipment,some hospitals also established electrotherapy departments,and more and more people had access to electrotherapy.Due to the inherent dangers of electrotherapy,there were some electrotherapy accidents at that time,but there were some difficulties in determining liability regarding electrotherapy accidents.