Acupuncture point therapy

Author: Li Pinghua
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Publish Date: 1996-03-01
Features: This book is a specialized work on acupoints, consisting of thirteen chapters. The first chapter introduces the concept, classification, meridian attribution, Five Elements belonging, cold-warm nature, multi-functionality, specific points, and therapeutic rules of acupoints in a concise manner. Chapters two to thirteen summarize and generalize the common characteristics of acupoints with different functions, and each acupoint is comprehensively and systematically discussed from ten aspects: naming, category, location, local anatomy, efficacy, indications, point explanation, needling and moxibustion methods, needle sensation, and references. This book is the first to discuss acupoints from perspectives such as their properties, point explanation, and functional classification. The content is novel, detailed, and highly readable, making it one of the important clinical reference books suitable for acupuncturists, traditional Chinese medicine practitioners, Western medicine practitioners of Chinese medicine, and.