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Acupu BY BOB CRAFT Dr. C. Y. Ting, a practicioner of the Chinese medical art of acupun cture, gave a lecture and demonst ration of the art Thursday evening in the new B. A. building auditorium. Ting is a third generation Chinese doctor who practiced in Shanghai, before coming to the United States. He began his lecture with a his tory of acupuncture. Ting said acupuncture had been known for about 5,000 years but that the art had only found written expression in the last 2,000 to 3,000 years. Ting said that at first stone nee dles were used and were replaced by bone, bamboo, metal, gold and silver until the present stainless steel needle was introduced. Acupuncture treatment uses not only the needle, but also heat and herbal medicines. The theory of disease in acupun cture states that a disease enters the body through an imbalance in the yin and the yang or the positive and negative. Ting explained that this imbalance affects the entire body. He said that each organ had yin and a yang relationship with another organ and "if one is sick the other is sick also. If the blood has a prob lem then the liver has a problem," he said. He said because of this theory of balance there is no such thing as a specialist in Chinese medicine, because more than one organ must be treated. To diagnose a disease, "every part of the patient is observed including a patient's walk and color." Ting said that in an examina GAME The Gamecock is published twice we ing the fall and spring semesters with 1 and exam periods. Change of address forms, subscript should be sent to The Gamecock, Dra Subscription rate is $3 per semester 'from the student activity fund entitling Offices of The Gamecock are rooms WATEI Complete Line. C opening specialh SWEETW) 950 HARDEN ST. ( Phone: HE WAlN Ifrom 11:4 Part Time Nights 1211 College 3 ncture: tion if the patient yells, that even the length of the yell tells the doctor something about the nature of the patient's illness. Ting said each case is different and some symptoms are not treated alike. The treatment after the diagnosis is partially herb medicines and nee dle and heat treatment. Ting said that acupuncture came so late to the United States because acupuncture cannot be proven sci entifically. He said that the relation ship between the organs -and the procedures of acupuncture could not be proven by the scientific pro cesses. He said that there had been argu ments raised that acupuncture was a form of hypnotism, but Ting said acupuncture can be practiced upon animals and since animals cannot be hypnotized, acupuncture is not a form of hypnotism. Ting said that in Shanghai in 1948, that traditional Chinese doctors refer patients to Western doctors and that the reverse was also true. Ting said that traditional Chinese doctors have a four-year training period followed by a two-year internship before they are allowed to practice. Ting said that during his internship he learned to place the needles by practicing on him self. He said that all diseases could not be cured but that among that could be cured were cancer, arthritis, deafness. He said that his father had a case of a forty year old woman with breast cancer who had not wanted to have surgery. The doctor treated the woman by acupuncture. The pain went away, although the lump remained in the breat. The woman COCK ekly on Monday and Thursday dur he exception of university holidays ions requests and-other mail items wer A, USC, Columbia, S. C., 29208. The Gamecock received $38,000 full-time students to a subscription. 317. 319 and 319 in Russell House RBEDS ompare our grand a before you buy. ATER JCT. Across from Sears) 254-2376 LP TED 00- 2:9O Ancient Art i Bone, Bamb died when she was eighty. He said that there have been cases of deafness in children where as much as 40 per cent of the hear ing was regained through treatment by acupuncture. In cases of arthritis, Dr. Ting said the problem was that "the nerves couldn't stretch", he said he didn't mean this in a physical way, but that that was how the disease was treated. After the nerves had regained their "elasticity" the pain went away and the calcification in the joints receded naturally. Dr. Ting also said that acupun cture could be used to control inter nal parasites, could be used for birth control and for symptoms of paralysis following strokes as well as for anesthesia. He asked for volunteers from the audience to demonstrate the inser tion of the needle. Dr. Ting received a man who volunteered. Dr. Ting VVriter- In-R( Returning to campus after ter leave, George Garret, U; in-residence, read excerpt works to an audience of about Garret, more widely reco prose writer, featured some o particularly "Palm Sunday 19 M ised Stone, oo Needles inserted the two inch needle about a half an inch into the man's leg. The man reported feeling no pain, just a-slight pressure when the nee dle went in. When the needle was removed there was no blood or any trace that there had been any pun cture of the skin. Dr. Ting said that he did not have a license to practice in the U. S. He stated that a recent bill in California to allow acupuncturists to practice under the supervision of "western physicians" had been vetoed by the governor. Dr. Ting seemed to agree with the governor's action. He said that western physician's did not know enought about acupuncture to supervise it. Dr. Ting smiled when a member of the audience asked him how much were the charges fo. acupun cture treatment. He said that in China, it was not ?sidence Give his semes- In addition 3C's writer- Fox, his mos :s from his about the life 150persons. bulk of the gnized as a devoted to C f his poetry, Strip Tease, v 68." lished early ii onday Nig] uident Spec *2.99 U.S. Choice Sirloin Choice of Potato Salad Bar 741 SALUDA AVE.- F COLUt MBIA, SOUTH C 4, DR. C. Y. LING ...acupuncture expert. like the U. S. The patient pays what ever he thinks he can afford. The rich, therefore pay more than the poor. Dr. Ting said that the patient didn't cheat the doctor because the patients believed if he did, the treat ment would not work. s Reading he read from Death Of A t recently published work of Sir Walter Raleigh. The afternoon, however, was ~arrett's novel, The Magic ,hich is scheduled to be pub ri the fall by Doubleday. lit 1al Reservations Please IVE POINTS AROLINA 2905n