North Carolina Administrative Code › Title 21 - OCCUPATIONAL LICENSING BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS › Chapter 01 - ACUPUNCTURE › Section .0100 - LICENSURE › Section 01 .0104 - DEFINITIONS

Current through Register Vol. 39, No. 2, July 15, 2024
In addition to the definitions contained in
				  G.S.
				  90-451, the following shall apply throughout
				  this Chapter:
(1) "Licensed
				Acupuncturist" or "Acupuncturist" is the title conveyed by the North Carolina
				Acupuncture Licensing Board pursuant to Article 30 of Chapter 90 of the North
				Carolina General Statutes. Licensed Acupuncturists or Acupuncturists may only
				refer to him or herself as a doctor in the state of North Carolina, if he or
				she has earned an educational degree of "doctor" or "doctorate" in accordance
				with G.S.
				90-458.
(2) "Acupuncture adjunctive therapies"
				include the adjunctive therapies listed in
				G.S.
				90-451(3). It also includes
				stimulation to acupuncture points and channels by any of the following:
				cupping, thermal methods, magnets, and gwa-sha scraping techniques.
(3) "Acupuncture diagnostic techniques"
				include the use of observation, listening, smelling, inquiring, palpation,
				pulse diagnosis, tongue diagnosis, hara diagnosis, physiognomy, five element
				correspondence, ryodoraku, akabani, and electro-acupuncture.
(4) "Acupuncture needles" mean the same as in
				21 CFR
				880.5580, which is hereby incorporated by
				reference, including subsequent amendments and editions, and can be found at
https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CFR-2016-title21-vol8/pdf/CFR-2016-title21-vol8-sec880-5580.pdf
at no cost. "Acupuncture needles" include solid filiform needles, intradermal,
				plum blossom, press tacks, and prismatic needles.
(5) "Dietary guidelines" include nutritional
				counseling and the recommendation of food and supplemental
				substances.
(6) "Electrical
				stimulation" includes the treatment or diagnosis of energetic imbalances using
				TENS, Piezo electrical stimulation, acuscope therapy, auricular therapy
				devices, percutaneous and transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation and Class
				IIIa, 5 milliwatt laser devices. All laser products shall meet the performance
				standards for light-emitting products as set forth in
				21 CFR
				1040.10 and
				1040.11, including subsequent
				amendments and editions, which can be found at
https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CFR-2012-title21-vol8/pdf/CFR-2012-title21-vol8-part1040.pdf
at no cost.
(7) "Herbal medicine"
				includes tinctures, patent remedies, decoction, powders, diluted herbal
				remedies, freeze dried herbs, salves, poultices, medicated oils, and
				liniments.
(8) "Massage and manual
				techniques" include acupressure, shiatsu, Tui-Na, qi healing, and medical qi
				gong.
(9) "Therapeutic exercise"
				includes qi gong, Taoist self-cultivation exercises, dao yin, tai qi chuan, ba
				gua, and meditative exercises.
(10)
				"Thermal methods" include moxibustion, hot and coldpacks and infrared lamps.
				The use of infrared heat lamps shall be done in accordance with
				21 CFR
				890.5500, including subsequent amendments and
				editions, which can be found at
https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CFR-2017-title21-vol8/pdf/CFR-2017-title21-vol8-sec890-5500.pdf
at no cost.
Authority
				  G.S.
				  90-451(3);
				  90-454;
Eff. July 1,
				  1995;
Readopted Eff. April 1,
				  2018.