The first record of Acupuncture is found in the 4,700 year old Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine, the oldest medical textbook in the world. It is said to have been written down from earlier theories by Shen Nung, the father of Chinese medicine.

Hypnotherapy is the induction of a trance state during which there is access to that aspect of the mind which creates the experience of reality. During this state of relaxation and trance that aspect of the mind is open to suggestion. Because it has integral connections to the entire nervous system, and thus the entire body, skilled trance induction and proper suggestion has earned a place in medicine and dentistry for treatment of a variety of conditions. It has also earned a place as an adjunctive tool in the hands of psychotherapists.

For hypnotherapy, the road to acceptance met the usual barriers along the way by the closed- minded mental set of traditional medicine and dentistry, however the usefulness of hypnotherapy inspired its proponents to persist until the majority of the medical and dental communities at least acquiesced to its use. Ironically, nutritional medicine as well as other natural medicine approaches are now in the same position vis-a-vis the medical establishment which was endured by hypnotherapists earlier in the twentieth century and late in the nineteenth century.