Did you know that, unlike other acupuncture theories, the connection between tongue acupuncture and autism was first shown before a gathering of scientists and doctors?

Tongue acupuncture and autism were subjects of a 2001 paper presented at the 17th World Congress of Neurology in London.

This surprised the scientific community familiar with this mode of healing because before then the tongue was never among the common acupuncturist targets.

The University of Hong Kong’s Division of Child Neurology was represented by Dr. Virginia Wong, who revealed that she and colleague Dr. JG Sun believe they have found the tongue’s acupuncture points that affect the organs in the human body – particularly those that give relief from the symptoms of autism.

To test autism sympathetic points in tongues, the doctors chose 30 random subjects: kids from ages 3 through 15. One set of kids got standard education and therapy, while the other got the standard program and tongue acupuncture. All kids had reached plateaus on the standard program when the study began.

Children who underwent tongue acupuncture showed an average change of 12 points in the Functional Independence Measure, compared to 0.005 in the other group.

What’s more there was a big improvement in self care and cognition, plus a big difference in the Parental Stress Index, the Ritvo-Freeman Real Life Index, the Caregiver Global Impression Scale, among other communication and relational indices.

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