Chinese Acupuncture and Moxibustion [Hardcover]

Liang Yue Deng (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 544 pages
• Publisher: South San Francisco, California, U.S.A.: China Books & Periodicals (1987)
• ISBN-10: 0835121097
• ISBN-13: 978-0835121095
• Product Dimensions: 10.3 x 7.8 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,335,300 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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41 of 47 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars If you must pass NCCAOM read it, otherwise forget it, January 26, 2002

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Ron Morefield (Buford, GA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Chinese Acupuncture and Moxibustion (Hardcover)

The simple fact is that if you want to pass the NCCAOM acupuncture exam you will need this book. Otherwise don't waste your time. Even if you need to pass the exam, find other books first. This book is definitely not useful for understanding the "whys" of Traditional Chinese Medicine. It is mainly a poorly assembled mass of factoid minutiae that need to be memorized for the exam.

The language of the book is both confusing and contradictory. Often you don't know if particular terms are different because they actually represent different principles in TCM or just because it was translated differently. The diagrams for point locations are mediocre, at best. You will need to find better descriptions and diagrams to pass NCCAOM.

Most importantly, this book completely fails to provide beginning students with the conceptual overview of how TCM is used to actually diagnose and treat patients. The authors really got lost in the trees and forgot to describe the forest.

So, a big thumbs down here.

29 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Please Remember, January 7, 2004

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"the_ancient_doctor" (Kennewick, WA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Chinese Acupuncture and Moxibustion (Hardcover)

I have been studying oriental medicine for the past 5 years intensively. I am currently preparing for a trip to beijing to practice medicine in China as an internship.

After reading the previous reviews I picked up a distinct feeling from all of the reviews that is typical.

You must remember Chinese Medicine is not a light topic anyone can understand with a few reads. It is truly a differnt mindset and lifestyle.

This book is not meant as a book to teach one the precise form and techniques of acupuncture, hence the brief overview of techniques.It will be greatly appreciated once you do learn the techniques however as a guide.

If you are interested in learning TCM please keep this in mind. There is a reason all formal medicine schools in China use this book.

20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not all bad, but there are alternatives, September 25, 2005

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Philip Tan-Gatue "physician and acupuncturist" (Manila, Metro Manila Philippines) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Chinese Acupuncture and Moxibustion (Hardcover)

I was given a copy of this book when I signed up for training courses in the Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. It isn't all bad, and I learned a lot from it. The problem is that one can learn so much more from other texts such as Maciocia's Foundations of Chinese Medicine and Deadman, Mazin and Baker's A Manual of Acupuncture. This book tries to be comprehensive, but it is, at times, incomprehensible. For example, Maciocia's writings on TCM Syndrome Differentiation is much easier to comprehend than the equivalent chapters here. In fact, I found myself studying Foundations instead of this book for such topics as the 8 principles. This book also assumes too much. It does not recognize the fact that most westerners cannot readily grasp the marked differences in western and eastern philosophy. Again, this is a topic that Foundations (and Web that has no Weaver) covers much more excellently.

Ultimately, if you must purchase only ONE book on Chinese medicine, this is neither the best nor the worst you can find, but it will be adequate. Otherwise, I highly recommend that you check out various Listmanias (Jeffrey Chapman's is quite excellent) for alternatives.