Equipment for the Insertion Tube method of acupuncture (Kanshino)

Made:: 1980-1985 in Japan

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Equipment for the Insertion Tube method of acupuncture, also known as Kanshino, consisting of two packets of all silver needles and a box containing a silver insertion tube, from the surgery of a British practitioner c.1996, handmade by Kinichi Aoki, Tokyo, Japanese, 1980-1985.

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Category:: Asian Medicine

Object Number:: 2002-485

Materials:: complete and silver

type:: acupuncture needle

credit:: Kelley, R.

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Equipment for the Insertion Tube method of acupuncture (Kanshino)

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