History and Mechanism for Treatment of Intracerebral Hemorrhage with Scalp Acupuncture

Table 1

Brief History of the Development of Scalp Acupuncture.

Year	Author and/or work	Contribution
5 BC	Bian Que’s biography	The earliest medical record for the application of SA therapy in China
221 BC–220 AD	Huangdi Neijing (Huangdi’s internal classics)	Establishment of the TCM theory basis for SA therapy.
220 AD–1950 AD	There were rich records of SA therapy in the medical books.	SA therapy developed through different generations, but it still belonged to the traditional acupuncture system.
1950’s	SA became one part of micropuncture systems.	SA began to form up an independent system.
1970’s	Jiao Shunfa SA therapy, Fang Yunpeng SA therapy, Zhu Longyu SA therapy, and Zhu Minqing SA therapy, Yamamoto et al. new SA	SA therapy developed rapidly and has formed various scalp acupoint nomenclature systems.
1980’s–1990’s	WHO Scientific Group on International Acupuncture Nomenclature	The international standard SA lines were approved by scientific group of WHO.

SA, Scalp Acupuncture. WHO, World Health Organization.