Acupuncture Energetics

Acupuncture Energetics is the only professional textbook in English that presents the European approach to acupuncture rather than the approach currently exported from mainland China. It reflects two centuries of French scholarship and clinical integration of acupuncture into modern medical consciousness and practice. Its sources are from the classical literature of the Han and Ming dynasties, not the official line of Contemporary China.

Clearly written and crafted for clinical learning. Uses of vocabulary of contemporary medicine as well as traditional Chinese medicine. Illustrations of channels are useful and clear. Schematics are complete. Respects the knowledge base of readers grounded in or working within western medicine systems.

A full presentation of acupoints, concepts, diagnostics, relationships and clinical instructions. Dr Helms has expanded the root of his text's clinical validity from that of simple individual experience to that peer consensus. His case studies are the result of a co-operative endeavour with his colleagues working clinicians who provide a breadth of experience and expression. The text also sets a precedent by adapting modern graphical and textual techniques to the teaching of acupuncture, and by consistently examining the roots and sources of its clinical ideas so that their conceptual foundation may be more deeply understood.

The circuitry of acupuncture energy flow and the functions and symptoms of the organs linked to the energy circulation are presented systematically and clearly. The author's approach is to layer conceepts one atop the next, each one building on and reinforcing prior material. Central to the learning process are twelve archetypal patients, who are followed throughout the book as they present with minor and major problems that illustrate the circulation subunit under consideration.

The book is designed to take a physician with no acupuncture experience through the history and science of acupuncture, and lead him through the anatomhy, physiology, pathology, and treatment possible in this new discipline. It si also designed for the experienced nonphysician practitioner to expand from his knowledge base from traditional Chinese medicine into a more versatile acupuncture approach.

With a full presentation of acupoints, concepts, diagnostics, relationships and clinical instructions. In addition to drawing upon the well-developed body of French language acupuncture works, the references both basic and clinical research in Western languages. Dr Helms has expanded the root of his text's clinical validity from that of simple individual experience to that peer consensus. His case studies are the result of a co-operative endeavor with his colleagues working clinicians who provide a breadth of experience and expression. The text also sets a precedent by adapting modern graphical and textual techniques to the teaching of acupuncture, and by consistently examining the roots and sources of its clinical ideas so that their conceptual foundation may be more deeply understood.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Part One
Chapter One: Acupuncture in the West
Chapter Two: The Basic, Clinical, and Speculative Science of Acupuncture
Chapter Three: An overview of Acupuncture Paradigms

Part Two
Chapter Four: The Tendinomuscular Meridian Subsystem
Chapter Five: Auricular Acupuncture
Chapter Six: Contacting the Bodys Energy
Chapter Seven: The Distinct Meridian Subsystem
Chapter Eight: The Five Phases Paradigm
Chapter Nine: The Principal Meridian System and Its Command Group Points
Chapter Ten: Evaluation of the Patient
Chapter Eleven: The Acupuncture Treatment
Chapter Twelve: The Shao Yin Energy Axis
Chapter Thirteen: The Tai Yang Energy Axis
Chapter Fourteen: The Tai Yin Energy Axis
Chapter Fifteen: The Yang Ming Energy Axis
Chapter Sixteen: The Jue Yin Energy Axis
Chapter Seventeen: The Shao Yang Energy Axis
Chapter Eighteen: Additional Point Groupings
Chapter Nineteen: Treating Musculoskeletal Pain
Chapter Twenty: The Curious Meridian System
Chapter Twenty-One: Five Phases Dynamics and the Four Needle Technique

Part Three
Chapter Twenty-Two: Energetics of Living Systems
Chapter Twenty-Three: Energetic Equilibrium Treatments
Chapter Twenty-Four: From Matter to Energy: Selecting Therapeutic Inputs

Appendix A: Yin and Yang
Appendix B: Energetics of Living Systems
Appendix C: Atlas of Acupuncture Points

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