Traditional Japanese Acupuncture: Fundamentals of Meridian Therapy (Paperback)

by Society of Traditional Japanese Medicine (Corporate Author), T. Koei Kuwahara (Editor)

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Product Description
The authors, who are among Japan's foremost teachers and clinicians, have compiled a work that provides a broad, accurate, and detailed foundation for students learning acupuncture or for clinicians who wish to improve their clinical results. This is an important and pivotal contribution to the acculturation of classical acupuncture in the West.

From the Publisher
Meridian Therapy is a system of clinical acupuncture utilized in Japan and rooted not only in the acupuncture classics (the Su Wen, Ling Shu, and Nan Jing) but also in the modern clinical experience of highly successful Japanese clinicians. It is a very sophisticated modality that offers Western students, practitioners, and their patients a practical way of choosing and applying treatment in the light of clinical reality. The authors, who are among Japan's foremost teachers and clinicians, have compiled a work that provides a broad, accurate, and detailed foundation for students learning acupuncture or for clinicians who wish to improve their clinical results. This is an important and pivotal contribution to the acculturation of classical acupuncture in the West.

Contents include: the development of Meridian Therapy in light of the historical circumstances of acupuncture in Japan; an introduction to the basics--Yin and Yang, Five Phases, Ki, Blood, Fluids, deficiency, and excess; an overview of the meridians and acupuncture points, with detailed channel-by-channel descriptions; and much more.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 364 pages
• Publisher: Complementary Medicine Press (August 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0967303443
• ISBN-13: 978-0967303444
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 8 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,158,263 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Traditional Japanese Acupuncture, April 16, 2006

By	Kevin Anderson (United Kingdom, www.acupunctureclinic.info) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is a great book for those who use Meridian therapy in thier clinic, this can be seen from some of the authors of this book Ikeda Masakazu and Shudo Denmei. The fact it uses the term traditional in the title simply indicates that the sources for this book/Meridian therapy are from the classical texts of Chinese traditional medicine such as Su Wen and Ling Shu. This reflects the common use of the word traditional in the names of many of the Japanese acupuncture societies in Japan. The book fills in many of the gaps that Shodu's book did not, remembering that Meridian therapy was first introduced to those who had no knowlege of TCM, this is not the case today with many acupuncturist's having a grounding in modern TCM.

3 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not actually traditional japanese Medicine, March 12, 2005

By	Acupuncture Guy - See all my reviews

This book is titled TRADITIONAL Japanese Acupuncture. Unfortunatelty it is not really that at all though it may contain elements of some traditional Japanese styles. It seems that the esteemed authors have made an attempt to fuse Chinese TCM with elements of Japanese Meridian Therapy and have come up with something that to many Meridian Therapy practitioners (myself included)seems unrecognizable as TRADITIONAL anything. I do not mean to criticize the authors theories or his approach but to call this traditional Japanese acupncture in any sense seems a bit of an inaccurate statement.

Chinese TCM and Japanese Meridian Therapy are both relatively new (20th century in fact) traditions though they are based on very old Chinese medical texts. This work however represents nothing I nor anyone I have spoken with in the field of Japanese Medicine can call traditional. Indeed it seems an entirely new approach based on two older systems.

There is a movement going on in some circles to create a TJM. However, the Japanese tradtions are so diverse that I think this would be a mistake. Certainly it could be argued that in the creation of TCM in China much was lost. The works of Dr. Tin Yau So or (Miriam Lee's book on) Master Tong's works are examples of affective approaches that are no longer taught in China due to the forced standardization of acupuncture. I hope this book is not an attempt to standardize Japanese acupuncture.

This may be a very good approach, I do not know, I just wish the author hadn't tried to call it traditional.

0 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Traditional Japanese Acupuncture....., February 10, 2007

By	Lyubov Kondranina "book eater" (N.Y. USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The book is O.K. but on the last week I have gotten the second the same book (I never asked about the second the same book and also in very bad condition-the cover of the parcel was broken and it was no bill or statement inside) I sent the message to the company but they did not answer me how can I return this broken parcel without pay money. Please, answsre for my problem.Lyubov Kondranina.