Beginning with traditional needling techniques, the text covers filiform needling, supplementation and drainage, needle with moxa-all with several approaches. Moxibustion is covered to an equally great extent and detail, as are instruments, intradermal needles, press tack needles and spheres. In addition to highly specialized Japanese techniques such as shonishinpo (treatment techniques for children), Hirata-zone therapy and Manaka wooden hammer and needle, techniques like cupping that are used throughout Asia are described in full detail. This book is more than just a fine collection of practical instruction. The introduction provides context through a brief but very accessible tour of modern Japanese training and practice that includes a highly useful guide to root treatment. Each of the techniques is also made more valuable by the description of treatment protocols with proven histories of successful clinical application.
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"The authors' sincere interest and scholarship are everywhere evident in this text. Its relevance makes it an ideal choice for students and practitioners." -- Junji Mizutani, Editor, North American Journal of Oriental Medicine
"What an impressive and enjoyable book! It is easy to read, and packed full of information for the novice as well as the experienced practitioner. Includes many treatment suggestions and case studies never before available in English." -- Martin Feldman, Director, Japanese Acupuncture Department, New England School of Acupuncture
Required reading for anyone with an interest in non-TCM acupuncture styles. It provides the essential clinical and practical context for any discussion of acupuncture originating in Japan. -- Charles Chace
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By 682, contact between Japan and China was curtailed. Japanese traditional medicine then developed distinctive features, and some of what people call ``Japanese Acupuncture'' today are among them. For example, moxibustion and acupuncture were separate practices in the Chinese texts of the transmission era and this was retained in Japan. In China there was a different evolution. However, like acupuncture everywhere, twentieth century events have had profound effects on acupuncture in Japan.
The seminal event for modern Japanese acupuncture is probably a post-war rally by blind acupuncturists protesting Douglas MacArthur's edict against traditional medicine. In Japan, acupuncture was a traditional employment for the blind and their Tokyo rally against its prohibition is credited with acupuncture's modern survival. There were also other influences on the technical qualities of acupuncture in Japan, but the predominance of blind practitioners in the immediate post-war period certainly emphasized palpation -- particularly of the pulse and abdomen -- and this emphasis was retained in the keriaku chirio (channel based) approaches even as the blind became less and less a percentage of Japanese practitioners.
Keep in mind though that there are Chinese practitioners who use abdominal diagnosis, light stimulation and techniques generally though of as ethnically Japanese, just as T.C.M. acupuncture is readily-available in Japan. Yoshio Manaka's work achieved prominence China just as it did in Japan. So, the issue of acupuncture styles is really much larger than can be expressed by saying that it is ``Japanese'' or ``Chinese.'' Although this book concentrates on technique developed in Japan, or prominent in Japanese practice, may of these are used world-wide. Japanese needles and Japanese insertion tube techniques are used virtually everywhere, and, for example, the one-hand insertion technique this book teaches is clinically useful for what ever reason you may need a hand free.
Japanese shoni shin - the use of specialized instruments to give light, painless stimulation at the body's surface is Japanese pediatric acupuncture in origin. Nonetheless, it is useful in any theoretical frame work and with any patient for whom highly-controlled stimulus doses is required. The same is true of cupping, moxibustion and many of the techniques explained in this text.
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A true guide of treatment techniques for the acupuncture and moxibustion.,
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All that that really intends to make an effective treatment, according to the Japanese line of the therapy of the meridians, he/she will never be able to stop reading and, mainly, to apply the techniques of manipulation of needles and use of the moxibustion. And the book is not only in this, because he/she teaches several another sort things out of treating a patient. And those that prefer the Chinese line or the Westerner will win and a lot with the teachings practical, simple and effective, taught in way easy to understand. The road for the effectiveness in the treatment will just be to follow step the step the teachings of this book. Therefore this book is indispensable to all and any acupuncturist doctor.
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Great Inheritance of Korean Acupuncture traditions!,
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This book 'Japanese Acupuncture: A Clinical Guide' is Great Inheritance of Korean Acupuncture traditions. Over 2000 years, attemps have been made in Japan to success all that is valuable amid the vast mass of traditional medical literature given from Korea.And many wise Japanese traditional doctors inherit and develop the Korean acu-methods and needling devices. They made it with eye-opening progress! The book is organized interactively, presenting information that will help you understand traditional acupuncture principle and doing-methods.
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japanese acupuncture : a clinical guide,
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this is what needed, i am learning new things,thats what life is al about.
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