dated
25/11/2003 prescribed that certain practices like
acupuncture and Hypnotherapy which qualified as modes
of therapy, could be allowed to be practised ... Ministry of Health and Family
Welfare which directed that certain practices such as
acupuncture and Hypnotherapy which were qualified as
modes of therapy, could
directing the second and third respondents not to
interfere with practice of the Acupuncture treatment by the members of the petitioner's
Association duly ... petitioners should
necessarily get a licence from the appropriate authority for practicing
Acupuncture, Siddha and Ayurvedha. Admittedly, the petitioners without obtaining
any valid licence under
that pending
consideration of the appeal he may be permitted to practice
Acupuncture.
2. I have heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the
learned
about 3,000 BC were discovered in China. Chinese Taoist priests
practiced ‘Qi Gong’ - meditative movement revealing and cultivating the
vital life force. Traditional Chinese ... traditional Chinese
medicine and took them back to Japan. In Japan the practice of
medicine mostly consisted of diagnosis and treatment with massage-type
methods
