Five Element Constitutional Acupuncture

Peter Mole, Hicks John, Angela Hicks

Description

This exciting new edition of Five Element Constitutional Acupuncture gives a clear, detailed, and accessible presentation of the main features of constitutional Five Element acupuncture. It covers the context and history of this form of acupuncture, as well as the relevant Chinese medicine theory. After examining the Elements themselves and the functions of the Organs, the book explores the basis of diagnosis in Five Element acupuncture, possible blocks to treatment and the treatment itself. It puts this style of treatment into the context of other styles of acupuncture treatment — especially Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) as it is used in the West today.

Features

• The Five Elements referred to in the title are Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water.
• Gives a clear, detailed and accessible presentation of the main features of Five Element Constitutional Acupuncture treatment.
• Covers the context and history of this form of acupuncture, as well as the relevant Chinese medicine theory.
• Includes an unambiguous description of the principle aspects of diagnosis within a system, ironing out inconsistencies often present in discussions of these aspects.

This edition has been thoroughly revised throughout and includes a new and improved colour page design.

Quotes from the foreword to the first edition by Peter Eckman, San Francisco:

"...the authors have shown how their approach can even integrate with TCM findings to treat patients more completely and rapidly. As the case histories illustrate, Five Element Constitutional Acupuncture is a style of practice that is second to none, and this innovative text is an excellent resource for learning it"

Sujets

• Complementary Medicine
• Alternative Medicine
• Medical

Informations

• Publié par: Churchill Livingstone
• Date de parution: 18 octobre 2010
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9780702044489
• Langue: English

Extrait

Table of Contents

Cover image
Front matter
Copyright
Introduction
Foreword to the first edition
1. The philosophical foundations of Five Element Constitutional Acupuncture
2. Five Element theory
3. The importance of the spirit
4. The Constitutional Factor
5. The causes of disease
6. The inner development of the practitioner
7. Introduction to the Five Elements
8. Wood – key resonances
9. Wood – The Organs
10. Patterns of behaviour of Wood Constitutional Factors
11. Fire – key resonances
12. Fire – The Organs
13. Patterns of behaviour of Fire Constitutional Factors
14. Earth – key resonances
15. Earth – The Organs
16. Patterns of behaviour of Earth Constitutional Factors
17. Metal – key resonances
18. Metal – The Organs
19. Patterns of behaviour of Metal Constitutional Factors
20. Water – key resonances
21. Water – The Organs
22. Patterns of behaviour of Water Constitutional Factors
23. Some common confusions between different CFs
24. Diagnosis – the purpose and process
25. Diagnosis – the key methods
26. The body language of the different CFs
27. Diagnosis – levels and golden keys
28. Diagnosis by touch
29. The Five Element blocks to treatment
30. Aggressive Energy
31. Possession
32. Husband–Wife imbalance
33. Entry–Exit blocks
34. Needle technique
35. The use of moxibustion
36. The use of acupuncture points in Five Element Constitutional Acupuncture
37. Using points to treat the spirit
Chapter 38. Lung and Large Intestine points
39. Stomach and Spleen points
40. Heart and Small Intestine points
41. Bladder and Kidney points
42. Pericardium and Triple Burner points
43. Gall Bladder and Liver points
44. Ren and Du channel points
45. Treatment planning
Chapter 46. Treatment – pulling it all together
47. Integration with TCM – a brief introduction to how a practitioner can integrate the two styles
48. Case histories illustrating integrated diagnosis and treatment
Appendix A. Different terms used to describe the spirit
Appendix B. The external and miscellaneous causes of disease
Appendix C. Four Needle Technique
Appendix D. Blocks from scars
Appendix E. Treatment reactions
Appendix F. Checklist for a traditional diagnosis
Appendix G. Outcomes for treatment
Appendix H. Diagnosing and treating element within element
Bibliography
Glossary
Index
Front matter
Five Element Constitutional Acupuncture
For Churchill Livingstone
Commissioning Editors: Karen Morley, Claire Wilson
Project Development Editors: Natalie Meylan, Louisa Welch
Project Manager: Alan Nicholson
Designer: Stewart Larking

Five Element Constitutional Acupuncture
SECOND EDITION
Angela Hicks , MAc, DIP CHM, MBAcC, MRCHM, Joint Principal of the College of Integrated Chinese Medicine, Reading, Berkshire, UK
John Hicks , PhD, DR Ac DIP CHM, MBAcC, MRCHM, Joint Principal of the College of Integrated Chinese Medicine, Reading, Berkshire, UK
Peter Mole , MA (OXON), MAc, MBAcC, Dean, College of Integrated Chinese Medicine, Reading, Berkshire, UK
Copyright

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First edition 2004
Second edition 2011
ISBN 978-0-7020-3175-5
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Notices

Knowledge and best practice in this field are constantly changing. As new research and experience broaden our understanding, changes in research methods, professional practices, or medical treatment may become necessary.
Practitioners and researchers must always rely on their own experience and knowledge in evaluating and using any information, methods, compounds, or experiments described herein. In using such information or methods they should be mindful of their own safety and the safety of others, including parties for whom they have a professional responsibility.
With respect to any drug or pharmaceutical products identified, readers are advised to check the most current information provided (i) on procedures featured or (ii) by the manufacturer of each product to be administered, to verify the recommended dose or formula, the method and duration of administration, and contraindications. It is the responsibility of practitioners, relying on their own experience and knowledge of their patients, to make diagnoses, to determine dosages and the best treatment for each individual patient, and to take all appropriate safety precautions.
To the fullest extent of the law, neither the Publisher nor the authors, contributors, or editors, assume any liability for any injury and/or damage to persons or property as a matter of products liability, negligence or otherwise, or from any use or operation of any methods, products, instructions, or ideas contained in the material herein.


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Introduction

Chapter contents

Recent history xiii

Diversity in Chinese medicine xiii

The recent history of Five Element Acupuncture in the UK xiv

What is Five Element Constitutional Acupuncture? xv

About this book and its authors xv

Notes to the edition xvi

Acknowledgements xvi

Recent history
The practice of Five Element Constitutional Acupuncture in the form described in this book is of relatively recent origin. It is based on the style developed some time in the late 1960s and 1970s by J. R. Worsley (1923–2003), an Englishman. He drew on passages in the Nei Jing and Nan Jing , as well as what he learnt from a number of teachers in the East and West in the 1960s ( Eckman, 1996 ). J. R. Worsley and some of his students have subsequently taught this style of treatment to thousands of acupuncture students and practitioners in the UK and the USA, and to a lesser extent in other countries such as Norway, Holland, Canada, Switzerland and Germany. A survey carried out in 1995 of members of the British Acupuncture Council in the UK showed that 38% of practitioners were using this style ‘regularly’ compared with 66% using Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and 8% using Japanese Meridian Therapy ( Dale, 1996 ). (Note that throughout this book the abbreviation TCM is used to describe that style of Chinese medicine currently practised in China.)

Diversity in Chinese medicine
The history of Chinese medicine has been characterised by diversity and innovation. Its principles were laid down in antiquity and its style of practice has varied according to where and when it has been used. Recent scholarship has given us some glimpse of just how varied and innovative the practice of acupuncture has been (see Unschuld, 1992 ; Hsu, 2001 ; and Scheid, 2002 ).
It is inevitable that Western practitioners, steeped in the philosophical and intellectual traditions of the West, will continue to evolve new ways of practising acupuncture that honour traditional Chinese concepts and introduce ideas and practices from Western traditions.
There are currently a number of styles of acupuncture being practised in Western countries. Some have little or no basis in the classics of Chinese medicine. All were essentially formulated in the late twentieth century. Some were developed in countries with long traditions of traditional acupuncture; some arose in the West. Styles that draw on traditional concepts include TCM (China; the countries in brackets indicate the country of origin), Tong family style (Taiwan), Eight Constitutions (Korea), Meridian Therapy (Japan), Six Energetic levels (France), Stems and Branches (China), and Five Element Constitutional Acupuncture (UK). Even within these styles, individual practitioners and teachers practise in quite different ways from each other.
There is as yet no adequate research that establishes the relative efficacy of these various styles of diagnosis and treatment. TCM, with the backing of the Chinese government, is currently the style practised by the majority of practitioners. It has contributed greatly to the spread and acceptance of acupuncture throughout the world. The other styles, however, with their emphasis on other traditional concepts, have much to offer both patients and practitioners.
Chinese medicine has always had a ‘continuous tendency toward a syncretism of all ideas that exist (within accepted limits). Somehow a way was always found