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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. Name in front. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Although most people believe that acupuncture encom- passes a homogeneous body of knowledge and meth- ods of practice; in reality the theory and practice of acupuncture varies from country to country school to school and practitioner to practitioner. Since its origin in China about 4000 years ago acupuncture has spread all over the world initially from China to Japan and Korea and more recently to the West. This together with centuries of experience in using acupuncture to diagnose and treat various diseases and symptoms has resulted in many revisions modifications expansions and adaptations of the techniques. For example ‘medical acupuncture’ as practised in the West bears very little resemblance to the method of acupuncture envisaged by its Chinese forefathers apart from using needle insertion. Compared with other forms of treatment such as allopathic medicine or homeopathy the differences and the lack of unifor- mity is huge indeed. Every approach has its merits and disadvantages. My approach – since the inception of my practice of acupuncture – has been that of ‘energy balancing – choosing points that would cause energy flow between organs in order to balance their quality and quantity. I firmly believe that energy balance as defined by the original scholars of Chinese Medicine is fundamental to the understanding of the healthy and diseased states of the body; and that correcting the imbalances in energy flow is the very essence of acu- puncture. Moreover it is in keeping with the basic prin- ciples of Chinese Medicine as set out in the classics. (MP)