Practice of Acupuncture Hecker

Published 2005
Hardcover book
640 pages
ISBN 9781588902443

Includes
Illustrations: Exceptional
Practice of Acupuncture
By (author) Hans-Ulrich Hecker
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This German author team presents a modular TCM educational approach synthesized from their extensive study, teaching, and practice. It provides a thorough model of systematic acupuncture (with references to TCM and practical guides), topography training following the head-to-toe pattern, and TCM training for practice-oriented learning. A substantive text, it covers the basics of locating, measuring, and identifying acupuncture points and channels an overview of TCM syndromes TCM identification of disharmony patterns understanding and addressing conditions of the musculoskeletal system and internal diseases using the modular system psychosomatic medicine and cupping. Medical doctors and physicians are perhaps the most intentional audience for this work, as it presents a method of understanding acupuncture that is compatible and approachable for those with years of Western medical training and