Aryana Libris

Authors : Deadman Peter - Al-Khafaji Mazin
Title : A manual of acupuncture
Year : 2001

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Introduction. This book is deeply rooted in the classical tradition of Chinese acupuncture. The practice of acupuncture has grown spectacularly in the Western world over the last three or four decades. During the early period of this expansion there was scanty source material available. China was firmly closed to access by students of Chinese medicine, few textbooks were available in translation, and even fewer translators were skilled in the difficult task of rendering the terminology of Chinese medicine into other languages. As a result of these difficulties it was not easy to gain an understanding of the genuine and varied classical traditions of acupuncture, and there was inevitably a great deal of misunderstanding and much necessary invention to fill the gaps. In addition to these factors, acupuncture is a forgiving and extremely flexible science. The insertion of a needle into the body in order to contact the qi will usually produce some changes, whichever the points selected. In current practice throughout the world, there is enormous variety in point selection. Indeed this ‘fuzziness’ is not confined to the Western world. Within modern and classical Chinese traditions there is also enormous variation in understanding and predicting the effects of needling different points, and a great variety of ways of treating different diseases. ...