Yakchim
Yakchim is one of the many treatments in traditional Korean medicine treatment. It is also called pharmacopuncture, Korean herb acupuncture and acupuncture with medicinal herbs.
Definition
It is also known as Yakchim Immunization, Suchim, Yakchimyobeop, Hyeolwi needle therapy. It is a type of medical science of Immunity injecting to the important gyeonghyeol ingredients extracted from oriental medical herbs.It can also be said that the therapy of a needle for acupuncture is a method of treatment stimulating the human body externally and the medication therapy is stimulating the internal organs internally. It has an intention of improving the effectiveness of treatment by enforcing the two therapies simultaneously.
In western pharmacodynamic sense, direct injection of medicinal substances into the body promotes quicker steadystate levels of substances either in the local tissue or in the blood stream, thus improving time-efficacy of the medicine
Background
It was developed by Nam Sang Chun from South Korea who had researched the formation of kyungrak in 1956 and has strengthened the immunity developing into a specialty of acupuncture field and since 1963 he has examined closely the functioning of kyungrak using a syringe with herbal medication such as sanjoin, hwanggi, ginseng and nokyong.It is distinguished that gyeonghyeol has an effect by itself only with the stimulation of the needle, but can be achieved greater therapeutic effect with the injection of specific medicinal herbs. It is being researched and developed in several countries like South Korea, China and Japan and others, where the oriental therapies are prevalent.
The department of the career of Yakchim has been implemented in the Korean Oriental medicine institute on August 26, 1990 in South Korea and the research and the diffusion about Yakchim has been progressing actively.