Acupuncture Institute pins down secret of rehabilitation success


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HA NOI — The Viet Nam Acupuncture Institute has annually received
between 30-40 per cent of patients nation-wide requiring acupuncture
in medical treatment, providing successful remedies for 80 per cent
of them.

These statistics were unveiled on Friday at the Institute's 20th
anniversary, where it was presented with the President's first-class
Labour Order.

Professor Nguyen Tai Thu, the current President of the Institute,
said acupuncture treatment for drug addicts has been their greatest
achievement during the past two decades.

Thu, who is also President of the Viet Nam National Association of
Acupuncture, claimed in addition that acupuncture has had an 82 per
cent success rate at relieving paralysis, an 87 percent success rate
with the alleviation of pain and a staggering 91 per cent success
rate with drug, tobacco and alcohol addiction.

The institute has applied electropuncture for 2,200 drug addicts,
curing 92 per cent of them.

More than 4,000 foreign physicians have attended courses and 1,000
foreign patients have been treated between 1997-2002.

Most of the foreign students came from Indonesia, Mexico, France,
America and Italy.

In 2002 the institute collaborated with Mexico's Zacateca University
to organise the first Masters course on acupuncture for 30 Mexican
acupuncturists.

The association now has 21,000 members nation-wide. — VNS