Aryana Libris

Author : Seem Mark
Title : Acupuncture imaging Perceiving the energy pathways of the body A guide for practitioners and their patients
Year : 1990

Link download : Seem_Mark_-_Acupuncture_imaging.zip

Foreword. Acupuncture Imaging, a book about Mark Seem's style of acupuncture, is more than just a record of one practitioner's idiosyncracies. In ten years of developing this style of acupuncture, Dr. Seem has thought deeply about and commented on many of the most important questions raised by American acupuncturists. Dr. Seem here describes his own education, which resembles that of many of us who began practicing more than a decade ago. Like so many others, Dr. Seem came to acupuncture after receiving a Western education in the humanities rather than the medical sciences, and before most of the acupuncture and Chinese medical texts emanating from the People's Republic of China were available in the United States. He first studied the works of the French and Vietnamese acupuncturists, such as Soulie de Morant, Chamfrault, Schatz, Larre, and Nguyen Van Nghi, and was also influenced by Leamington acupuncture as developed by J. R. Worsley in England. By 1983, two books had revolutionized American acupuncture. Essentials of Chinese Acupuncture, published in the People's Republic of China, was a basic primer written in English specifically for foreign students at the three main Chinese acupuncture schools in the People's Republic: the Beijing, Nanjing, and Shanghai Colleges of Traditional Chinese Medicine. The Web That Has No Weaver was an introduction to Chinese medical theory by Ted Kaptchuk, an American graduate of a Chinese medical school in Macau whose teaching was based on the curriculum in those same Chinese medical colleges. ...