The Art of Acupuncture (DVD)

This is a best-selling acupuncture training DVD in Japan, and is now available in English. It was produced and directed by Masakazu Ikeda and Edward Obaidey.

Ikeda Masakazu graduated from the Meiji College of Oriental Medicine in 1968. Since then he has been in practice, researching and clinically employing acupuncture, moxibustion and herbal medicine according to the theories contained in the classic texts of Oriental Medicine. A prolific writer, Ikeda Sensei is the author of countless journal articles and 23 published books including the popular Classics of TCM Handbook Series (Su Wen Handbook, Lings Shu Handbook, Shang Han Lun Handbook, etc. Ikeda Sensei has served as the president of the academic department of the Society of Traditional Japanese Medicine and is the current academic director of the Japanese Meridian Therapy Society. He continues to lecture in Japan, Australia, and the U.S.

Designed specifically for training purposes, this DVD demonstrates the acupuncture and moxibustion techniques of Ikeda Masakazu, a master Japanese acupuncturist whose methods are grounded in the theories of classical Chinese medicine.

In this DVD, Ikeda Sensei demonstrates the fundamentals of:

Diagnosis

Point location

Needling techniques for yin and yang syndromes

Moxibustion techniques for yin and yang syndromes

This DVD is ideally paired with Ikeda Masakazus book, The Practice of Japanese Acupuncture and Moxibustion: Classic Principles in Action, also published by Eastland Press.