A Personal Acupuncture Handbook: Create Your Own Textbook of Acupuncture Points [Spiral-bound]

Jennifer Sobel (Author, Editor), David Knox (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2003

The ideal accompaniment to any acupuncture training program. A Personal Acupuncture Handbook lets you create your own textbook of acupuncture points by allowing you to create a permanent record of all your acupuncture notes from both classes and clinical experience, as well as other texts. Instead of having one's notes disorganized and scattered throughout numerous notebooks and in the margins of books, you have within a single resource all the classical information about each acupoint on the same page with your own personal notes. Finally, a book that brings logic to acupuncture note-taking!

Editorial Reviews

Review

Excerpt from "Acupuncture Today", January 2004: "It combines point locations, insertions and indications with extra space for the practitioner to write what he or she has found effective. For instance, when looking up Heart 7 in the book, "paralysis of the hypoglossus muscle" was listed under indications, but it said nothing specifically about the ability to swallow water. It does now. This book is light, durable, and a perfect accompaniment. It includes the standard points, scalp points, and ear points. Additionally it has distal local point combinations and just about anything else acupuncturists are likely to use. The entire book makes us aware of an interesting proposition. Whatever style we wish to practice by doing it ourselves, we have created a new amalgam. It is better to perform our technique in a conscious mode, rather than being unaware. There is an old bromide in law about verbal contracts which states that they are worth the paper they are written on. Clearly, one still needs classics such as "Chinese Acupuncture and Medicine" and Deadman's "A Manual of Acupuncture", but something new and different has emerged, which is known as vade mecum. The Random House Unabridged Dictionary has two definitions for it: "something a person carries about for frequent or regular use" and "a book for ready reference; manual; handbook." This book qualifies under both cases, and for doing both things well, rates a 10. By the way, vade mecum is Latin for "go with me". In my case, that is exactly what this book will do. Dr. Lavitan's rating: 10 out of 10 --Acupuncture Today

Excerpt from The Medical Acupuncture Journal, Volume 15, Number 3, 2004: "I was fortunate enough to review "A Personal Acupuncture Handbook". This spiral-bound book is appropriately sized for the desk or briefcase, but has plenty of white space that the acupuncturist may use to annotate his/her thoughts. Each acupoint is listed and diagrammed on the top half of its own page, and the bottom half is left blank. While this might seem wasteful, it creates a format that is easy to read, and is very forgiving of our notes and comments in each case. Remember the "Gross Anatomy" texts where we tried to cram notes into the margins while working on the cadaver? This concept precludes such cramped and illegible results. This book is not for the experienced practitioner who believes he/she knows all the points and their purposes all the time. But for the rest of us and especially for those learning their craft, it is a real find. This is an excellent gift for most active practitioners as well as for the acupuncturist who deals with some clinical scenarios infrequently." --The Medical Acupuncture Journal

About the Author

As a second year acupuncture student at Yo San University, I was feeling overwhelmed studying and memorizing the vast amounts of information that make up the acupuncture curriculum. With each acupuncture class I took, it became harder and harder to integrate and organize all my classroom notes into a single resource. I would constantly be flipping through pages of old notebooks to find the relevant information I was looking for. My desire for such a single resource went unsatisfied until I created this book.My goal was to have a Master Notebook that I could bring to class that would contain all the classical information about each point, as well as serve as a lasting notebook to record the notes from my acupuncture classes. In this way, I could keep all the important acupuncture information in one place. It took five years to complete this book, but I am pleased to announce that it is now available to acupuncture students throughout the country who are finding it an essential accompaniment to their acupuncture education. Each student is able to create his or her own Personal Acupuncture Handbook that is a permanent notebook to record acupuncture notes and provide a continuity to the educational experience from year to year, and beyond... After receiving a B.A. in English from UCSB, Jennifer Sobel graduated summa cum laude from Yo San University of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Los Angeles. Miss Sobel is licensed by the State Board of California to practice acupuncture, and has a Diplomate in Chinese Herbology from the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine.

Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 501 pages
• Publisher: Acupuncture Books; 1st edition (January 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0972215301
• ISBN-13: 978-0972215305
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.5 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,557,703 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Resource !!, November 28, 2008

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This review is from: A Personal Acupuncture Handbook: Create Your Own Textbook of Acupuncture Points (Spiral-bound)

When I started studying acpuncture I was looking for some type of note pad that had all the acu points and meridians in it. That I could write my own notes on during lectures and home study.
This hand book is that and so much more.
It simplifies taking notes during lectures because each point has it's own page which has a diagram, point location, insertion, what each points are used for and most importantly lots of space to write your own notes .
anyone studying or practicing acupuncture I can't recomend this handbook enough it's a Gem .

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great quick resource!, November 22, 2008

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studentforlife - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Personal Acupuncture Handbook: Create Your Own Textbook of Acupuncture Points (Spiral-bound)

This is a must for all acupuncture students! I use this manual daily and always keep it handy. Its divided by meridian clearly and has great illustrations for each point. My favorite part about it is that pages each have much room for you to write further information on point location, energetics, and uses while youre sitting learning in class. Definately a great resource to have!