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The only [verification needed] ambiguity with this unique systemized method is on the urinary bladder meridian, where the outer line of 14 points found on the back near the spine are inserted in one of two ways; following the last point of the inner line along the spine (會陽) and resuming with the point found in the crease of the buttocks ...
There are about 400 acupuncture points (not counting bilateral points twice) most of which are situated along the major 20 pathways (i.e. 12 primary and eight extraordinary channels). However, by the second Century AD, 649 acupuncture points were recognized in China (reckoned by counting bilateral points twice).
Over the course of his life, Tung trained 73 students who went on to continue teaching his style of acupuncture. [3] In 1973, Tung authored his publication Tung’s Acupuncture, Its Regular Channels & Unique Points. [5] [3] Dr. Miriam Lee and Dr. Wei-Chieh Young, two of his students, introduced Tung's Points to the U.S. [1]
As can be seen the names of the levels are the same as the names of the head and foot pairs of acupuncture meridians. The order is roughly the order that a disease takes as you go from health to death. In some disease levels are skipped or the order can change.
Acupuncture points not found along a meridian are called extraordinary points and those with no designated site are called A-shi points. [ 105 ] In TCM, disease is generally perceived as a disharmony or imbalance in energies such as yin, yang , qi , xuĕ, zàng-fǔ, meridians , and of the interaction between the body and the environment. [ 106 ]
Various classic texts cite different arrangements to the pairings of organs, some omitting the second organ from the pulse entirely while others show organ systems reflecting the acupuncture channels (Wuxing, five phase pulse associations), and another the physical organ arrangement used in Chinese herbal medicine diagnosis (Li Shi Zhen [8]).
Pressure points [a] derive from the supposed meridian points in Traditional Chinese Medicine, Indian Ayurveda and Siddha medicine, and martial arts. They refer to areas on the human body that may produce significant pain or other effects when manipulated in a specific manner.
As distinct from the Western medical concept of the pericardium, this concept from traditional Chinese medicine describes a set of interrelated parts rather than an anatomical organ (see Zang Fu theory).