Aryana Libris

Author : Mole Peter
Title : Acupuncture for body, mind and spirit
Year : 2007

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Preface. This book is intended to be a source of information on the subject of acupuncture to patients, prospective patients, prospective students and lay-people in general. It is not intended to be a sort of ‘home doctor’ that the reader can consult in order to make an acupuncture diagnosis of her own or others’ symptoms. One of the intentions of the book is to show that acupuncture has a complex and intricate diagnostic method which takes a practitioner many years in which to become adept. If the book serves to show that acupuncture offers a radically different approach to Western medicine and that symptoms can rarely be seen out of context of the person as a whole, then it will have gone some way to fulfilling its purpose. This edition is a revised version of a book I wrote in 1991, called Acupuncture: Energy Balancing for Body, Mind and Spirit. The first publisher went bankrupt and the second lost interest in its Complementary Medicine catalogue. I am greatly indebted to How To Books for this edition. I decided to resolve the problem of whether to use the masculine or feminine pronoun throughout the book by using them alternately in each chapter. Unfortunately the book has seven chapters and, decided by the toss of a coin, this has meant that the masculine pronoun has been used in one more chapter than the feminine. I would like to thank all the people who by their lectures, books, friendship and example have contributed to my education in the art and science of acupuncture. In particular my first teacher J.R. Worsley, whose inspiring use of acupuncture to treat the person’s mind and spirit has profoundly influenced me; Allegra Wint, my companion and fellow-acupuncturist since my early days in practice; Angie and John Hicks, Giovanni Maciocia, Claude Larre and Elizabeth Rochat de la Vallée. I would also like to thank all the people who have been kind enough to read sections of this book and who, by their comments and suggestions, have helped to clarify my thinking and writing: Rebecca Avern, Amanda Thurston, Margaret Mole, Ken Shifrin, Alan Hext and Freda Wint. Mark Bovey was very helpful with his knowledge of acupuncture research. And special thanks to Mary Cavanagh, without whom this edition of the book would never have been published. Finally I would like to dedicate this book to my wife, Rebecca Avern, and my four children; Guy, Toby, Jessica and Alathea, in the hope that one day they will read this book and gain some understanding of the nature of their father’s work and why he stopped playing with them sometimes. Peter Mole. ...