Advanced Acupuncture, A Clinic Manual

About this book

The first book of its kind, the Advanced Acupuncture Clinic Manual contains detailed protocols for the application of the Complement Channels of acupuncture: the Sinew, Luo, Divergent and Eight Extraordinary Vessels. This is the first book to contain detailed protocols for the these channels. The book is now a required textbook in many schools across the United States and is in wide use in Europe and Australia. In the second edition all the points of all the channels are added to the illustrations. This unique book is indispensible in the clinic to practitioners interested in deepening their acupuncture practice by utilizing all the channels of acupuncture described in the classical texts, including the foundation of acupuncture, the Nei Jing. Many of these channels which were in disuse from the Tang Dynasty onward. The book includes over one hundred drawings, diagrams, detailed theories of the Sinew, Luo, Divergent and Eight Extraordinary Channels--collectively known as the Complement Channels--guides for diagnosis, needling techniques, illustrations of all the channels of acupuncture, protocols for the use of all the channels, indexes on equipment, safety, healing events, culativation, and much more, derived from the writer's years of intense study with Dr Jeffrey Yuen and years of practice in the clinic. 466 pages.