A comprehensive guide to acupuncture that explains what acupuncture is and what its benefits are, how it can be used to treat various ailments, what it feels like, how to find a practitioner, and other related topics.
Challenging those who believe acupuncture to bear no relation to Western medicine, this witty, accessible and highly original book shows how Chinese medicine can explain mysteries of the body and how an integration of Chinese and Western medicine can lead to a fuller understandi…
"Why can salamanders grow new legs, and young children grow new finger tips, but adult humans can't regenerate? What is the electricity that flows through the human body? Is it the same thing that the Chinese call Qi? If so, what does Chinese medicine know, that western medicine…
"Based on many years of experience in private pediatric practice, the author presents well-documented case histories in which patients were successfully treated without the use of pharmaceutical products. He demonstrates that allergies can be healed when they are recognized as b…
Alternative medicine: the new mainstream
[In this book], introductory chapters describe and illustrate the channels and collaterals, the various categories of points, and methods of selection, location, and needling. Ensuing chapters present each of the points of the 14 channels as well as the extra (miscellaneous) poi…
Once in a great while an extraordinary book is published that sets an entirely new standard in its field. A Manual of Acupuncture, published by Journal of Chinese Medicine Publications, is just such a book. Painstakingly researched over many years by Peter Deadman, editor-in-chi…