A Practical Guide to Acu-points

A Practical Guide to Acu-points
Author: Chris Jarmey
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2008
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9781556436963

An understanding of acu-points is vital not only for acupuncturists but also for bodyworkers. This user-friendly manual contains current, comprehensive information for both groups, with special emphasis on how shiatsu and tuina therapists can best utilize point knowledge in their practice. Renowned experts Chris Jarmey and Ilaira Bouratinos use succinct text, a well-organized framework, and detailed color anatomical illustrations to clarify the complexities of acu-points. In keeping with normal practice, the authors give the precise anatomical location of a point and illustrate it with a dot, along with alternative locations where relevant. However, the book goes further by delineating the larger area where the point can be activated by pressure, gua sha, and other means. In addition, it explains the optimum physical position for treatment via acupuncture, acupressure, and other strategies, as treatment positions can vary according to the method of point stimulation. The book also documents the distribution of sensation resulting from point stimulation, and differentiates between pressure and needle application where appropriate. A Practical Guide to Acu-Points presents a wealth of carefully researched information equally valuable for professionals, students, and conscientious practitioners.

Pocket Handbook of Particularly Effective Acupoints for Common Conditions Illustrated in Color

Pocket Handbook of Particularly Effective Acupoints for Common Conditions Illustrated in Color
Author: Guo Changqing Guoyan
Publisher: Singing Dragon
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2013-02-28
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0857010948

The study of acupoints plays an essential part in the effective practice of acupuncture. This book provides a practical guide to the key acupuncture points that aid the treatment of many common conditions. It covers the most important acupuncture points located on the fourteen meridians, from the five-shu points to the confluence points of the eight extraordinary vessels. With full color illustrations, it offers practical information on the locations, functions and indications for the points and how they should be needled or otherwise treated. The names of the points are presented in both English and Chinese, providing readers with a comprehensive pocket reference for the treatment of common conditions using acupuncture. Compiled by professors of the School of Acupuncture and Massage of Beijing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, this is an authoritative handbook that will be of interest to acupuncturists as well as teachers, students and practitioners of Chinese medicine.

Acupressure's Potent Points

Acupressure's Potent Points
Author: Michael Reed Gach, PhD
Publisher: Bantam
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2011-11-09
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0307794032

With your hands you have potential to relieve everyday aches, pains and ailments without taking drugs, to improve your health, and to increase your vitality. Acupressure is an ancient healing art that uses the fingers to stimulate key points on the skin that, in turn, activate the body's natural self-healing processes. With this book, it is a skill you can learn now--and use in your own home. In Acupressure's Potent Points, Michael Reed Gach, founder and director of the Acupressure Institute of America, reveals simple techniques that enable you to relieve headaches, arthritis, colds and flu, insomnia, backaches, hiccups, leg pain, hot flashes, depression, and more--using the power and sensitivity of your own hands. This practical guide covers more than forty ailments and symptoms, from allergies to wrist pain, providing pressure-point maps and exercises to relieve pain and restore function. Acupressure complements conventional medical care, and enables you to take a vital role in becoming well and staying well. With this book you can turn your hands into healing tools--and start feeling good now.

Ear Acupuncture

Ear Acupuncture
Author: Kajsa Landgren
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2008-01-01
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0443068992

An up-to-date guide to the principles and practice of Chinese and Western ear acupuncture, this book is aimed at both the student and practitioner. It includes chapters covering ear acupuncture used in the treatment of addiction and Western theories about how acupuncture works.

Acupuncture Points Handbook

Acupuncture Points Handbook
Author: Deborah Bleecker
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2017-01-11
Genre:
ISBN: 9781940146201

Point location book written in easy to understand terms, for the layperson.

Grasping the Wind

Grasping the Wind
Author: Andrew Ellis
Publisher: Paradigm Publications
Total Pages: 476
Release: 1989
Genre: Acupuncture
ISBN: 9780912111193

Point names, the traditional means of identifying acupoints, have meanings that are hard to grasp. This text promotes understanding of each point's use in acupuncture practice by considering the meaning, context and significance of each. The 363 points covered are listed according to the system currently in use in China.

A Manual of Acupuncture

A Manual of Acupuncture
Author: Peter Deadman
Publisher: Journal of Chinese Medicine
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007
Genre: Acupuncture
ISBN: 9780951054659

Established as the most complete work on the channels, collaterals and points in English, A Manual of Acupuncture has become the gold standard text for students and practioners of acupuncture. Introductory chapters on the channels and collaterals, point categories, point selection models, point location and needling. Illustrations and text descriptions of all primary, extraordinary, divergent, luo-connecting and sinew channels. The points of the fourteen channels and the extra points with their English name, Chinese name, and Chinese character. the most exacting and accurate anatomical point locations yet published in any English text with practical point location notes to assist in easy location. Nearly 500 illustrations, with a single dedicated illustration for every point. Point actions to aid the understanding and memorization of each point's prinicpal qualities. Extensive lists of point indications taken from numerous classical and modern source texts and grouped for ease of reference. Substantial commentaries explaining in detail the principal historical and modern applications of the point, and drawing on classical and modern texts and the extensive clinical experience of the authors. Numerous classical prescriptions showing how the points have been used and combined through nearly two millenia of practice. Area illustrations showing the locations of the major points in each region of the body. Extensive idexes including an index of every point indication.

Chinese Auricular Acupuncture

Chinese Auricular Acupuncture
Author: Skya Abbate
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2003-10-16
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0203493648

In classical Chinese medicine, the ear is considered an extraordinarily powerful nexus of energy through which the entire body can be treated. Unlike numerous texts that apply Western approaches to Eastern medicine, Chinese Auricular Acupuncture explains ear acupuncture within the framework of traditional Oriental energetics consistent with the use

Acupuncture Point Combinations

Acupuncture Point Combinations
Author: Jeremy Ross
Publisher:
Total Pages: 476
Release: 1995
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780443050060

This book covers the principles and practice of combining acupuncture points - expanding a practitioner's repertoire and increasing their skills - enabling them to use a balanced and appropriate choice of points in the treatment of patients. Information onthe combination of the main points of the fourteen channels is covered in the book prior to outlining specific point combinations for selected disease syndromes. Discussion of combining points according to dermatome theory and according to the energy centres of the body is also discussed, as is combining points for the mind end emotions, and for lifestyle and behaviour. No existing book covers this aspect of clinical practice in such thorough and wide-ranging detail.