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Author : Lee Miriam
Title : Master Tong's acupuncture An ancient alternative style in modern clinical pratice
Year : 2008

Link download : Lee_Miriam_-_Master_Tong_s_acupuncture.zip

Preface to Master Tong's Acupuncture : 2nd Edition by Richard Tan, O.M.D., L.Ac. After coming to the U.S. some 20 years ago I was astounded at the relatively low level of clinical efficacy accepted as normal by the American TCM trained acupuncture community. The highly standardized TCM format adopted for curriculum purposes by U.S. acupuncture colleges does make it possible to educate and test large numbers of practitioners in a consistent way. Establishing a baseline level of competency is an important service, and the schools do this job well. However, standardization causes TCM acupuncrure to suffer from the serious side effect of oversimplification. In terms of the rich and diverse tradition of theory and practice that has evolved through the centuries into Chinese medicine, what is taught in the U.S. as TCM represents only a conceptual skeleton and one with a few bones missing at that. As a result, acupuncturists in this country are often at a disadvantage when it comes to obtaining a consistently high level of clinical results. Due to my concern regarding this clinical deficit, in 1991 I enlisted the aid of my longtime apprentice and co-author Stephen Rush to publish my first book, Twelve and Twelve in Acupuncture. This book utilizes some of Master Tong's points to give practitioners an easily accessible source of reference material that would instantly upgrade their clinical effectiveness in specific treatment scenarios. I have found thac Master Tong's points and their effects are very compatible with my own explanation of acupuncture channel theory which, in turn, relates to my study of the I Ching as a mathematical system of philosophy. While living and learning acupuncture (first from my family and later in apprenticeship to several other masters) in Taiwan, Master Tong was renowned as one of the greatest acupuncturists in the country. In Taiwan, the number of impressive-looking letters following a practitioner's name was not nearly as compelling a form of advertisement as the number of patients found waiting at his clinic for treatment. In Master Tong's case, the line of patients was often said to stretch far out into the street. This in spite of the fact that he could treat patients very quickly, often seeing upwards of 100 per day ! ...