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Fundamentals of Chinese Acupuncture (Paradigm Title)

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"By transmitting a comprehensive and holistic picture, Fundamentals of Chinese Acupuncture offers readers the opportunity to appreciate the practical images of the Chinese cultural legacy. The classical insights and efficient modern methods presented in this text provide the student and clinician a more sophisticated view and a richer clinical potential. Contents include: Materials and methods; The channel system (regular channels, extraordinary vessels, connecting vessels, channel divergences, channel sinews, cutaneous regions, channel distribution); Channels and points (pathways, pathological signs, location and nomenclature, clinical indications, traditional indications, point functions, point combinations, technical instructions, contraindications); Point selection and application (by traditional principles, by channels, by point group, by point combination); Channel and point location illustrations; English/Chinese/Pinyin glossary, clinical reference tables, indexes."--Back cover