The Miracle of Acupuncture

The Miracle of Acupuncture, English edition
By Tu Xi
Foreign Language Press, Beijing, 1993
Hardcover: 127 pages
ISBN: 7119015303 more info

Chinese acupuncture-moxibustion therapy not only deals successfully with a hundred-odd common diseases - in internal medicine, surgery, obstetrics, gynecology, pediatrics, etc. - but is of high value in the treatment of some difficult and complicated cases considered quite hopeless by Western medicine. It is welcomed by people in China and also people in different parts of the world for its unparalleled safety, low cost, lack of side effects and simple equipment. In December 1979, the WHO adopted a resolution saying acu-moxi therapy would be applied to treatment of forty-three kinds of diseases.

The book introduces etiology and pathology, differentiation of common diseases, treatment with acupuncture and moxibustion: apoplexy or stroke, the common cold, heat stroke, cough, asthma, vomiting and hiccups, choking, food retardation and nausea, diarrhoea, dysentery,constipation, prolapse of rectum, retention of urine, urination disturbance seminal emission, impotence, pulmonary tuberculosis, insomnia and amnesia, palpitation of the heart, depressive and manic mental disorders, epilepsy, vertigo, malaria, jaundice, edema, testis pain and swelling, beriberi, headache, hypochondriac pain, epigastric pain, abdominal pain, low back pain, obstruction syndromes, atrophic syndromes and sequelae of poliomyelitis, polyneuritis facial paralysis, sciatica, trigeminal neuralgia, menstrual irregularities, dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, uterine bleeding, morbid leukorrhea, prolonged labour, lactation insufficiency and lactifuge method, prolapse of uterus, malposition of the fetus, acute infantile convulsions, chronic infantile convulsions and sequelae of encephalitis, infantile malnutrition, nocturnal enuresis, erysipelas urticaria, furuncle (malignant boil), parotitis (mumps), acute mastitis, appendicitis hemorrhoids, scrofula, thyroid enlargement, sprain and stiff neck, tinnitus, deafness and deaf-mutism, swelling and pain of the eyes and night blindness, rhinorrhea, epistaxis toothache, swelling and pain in the throat, shock hepertension, angina pectoris, thromboangiitis obliterans, urinary-tract infection, acute lumbar sprain, periarthritis of the shoulder, soft-tissue injury in the knee region, neurasthenia, glaucoma, retrobulbar neuritis, myopia, gastroptosis, spasm of esophagus and cardia, intestinal obstruction morning sickness, hysteria.

100 Diseases Treated by Single Point of Acupuncture and Moxibustion

100 Diseases Treated by Single Point of Acupuncture and Moxibustion
Written by Chen Decheng
English Text Revised by Linda Gale Sampson, Cynthia J Chan
Published by Foreign Languages Press, Beijing, 2001
Language: English
Paperback, 200 pages
ISBN 7119027441 more info

Single point therapy is an independent treatment method, derived from acupuncture and moxibustion. It refers to the application of stimulation at one point or one small local area of the superficial of the body in order to treat and prevent diseases.

Single point therapy consists of many methods of acupuncture and moxibustion, such as acupuncture, moxibustion, auricular acupuncture, head acupuncture, cupping therapy, bleeding therapy, point injection and laser therapy. It also consists of medicated compress, acupressure and massage, which are exceptional category of acupuncture and moxibustion.

Single point therapy uses fewer points with less pain, and is easy to master, with good and quick effect.

This book introduces different therapies for the treatment of 100 common diseases by single acupoint, including the point, location, method, result, case study and discussion, with the author's personal experiences.

This book is suitable for TCM doctors, teachers, students and acupuncture practitioners.

Foreword

Chinese acupuncture and moxibustion is an essential component of traditional Chinese medicine and has a long history. The single point therapy has an important position in acupuncture and moxibustion. It refers to the use of a single point of acupuncture and moxibustion to treat and prevent diseases.

The single point therapy has the characteristics of good curative effects, a wide range of indications, simple application, low cost, safety and easy acceptance by the patients.

I published the book The Chinese Single Point Acupuncture and Moxibustion in China in 1992. The book becomes very popular and has been accepted by the general readers at home and abroad. Now I choose some of the methods, which are of good results, simple manipulation, easy to study and use, to compile this book.

This book consists of five chapters: painful diseases, internal diseases, surgical diseases, obstetrical, gynecological and pediatric diseases, and ophthalmic and E.N.T. diseases, 100 diseases in total. The book has a wide range of indications and is useful for clinic.

The book has a unified style throughout the book. In each disease, the point, location, method, result, case and discussion are introduced.

I am deeply indebted to Egyptian Doctor Aly Bayomy who works at the Cairo University and to Mrs. Ye Brathaver for their support during the writing of the book.

Dr. Chen, Decheng
In Beijing, China March 2000

Related Links

• Chinese Acupuncture and Moxibustion
• Acupuncture, Meridian Theory and Acupoints - the definitive book on the subject of acupuncture and will also be of use for those who practice acupressure and pressure points in martial arts.
• The Location of Acupoints - State Standard of China - The State Standard for the Location of Acupoints presents a thorough and accurate location of the points of the 14 meridians and a part of the extra points.
• Skill with Illustrations of Chinese Acupuncture and Moxibustion - a monograph of acupuncture-moxibustion techniques.
• The Miracle of Acupuncture - Introduces etiology and pathology, differentiation of common diseases, treatment with acupuncture and moxibustion.
• Charts: Standard Meridian Points of Acupuncture (in English)
• English-Chinese Applied Anatomical Atlas of Acupoints
• 100 Diseases Treated by Single Point of Acupuncture and Moxibustion
• Handbook to Chinese Auricular Therapy (in English) - For Western learners of Traditional Chinese Medicine who wish to master the unique manipulation methods of Chinese auricular therapy and the current Chinese charts.
• English-Chinese Practical Anatomical Charts of Acupuncture and Moxibustion
• Wrist-Ankle Acupuncture (English)