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Time and Space in Traditional Acupuncture
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By
Roisin Golding, Acupuncturist, London, UK
Description
This exciting and comprehensive book gives a clear, detailed and accessible presentation of the stems and branches theory of acupuncture.
The majority of the principles behind Stems and Branches underlie the whole of acupuncture, regardless of the system being used. Fundamental
principles are outlined in a clear manner and each chapter covers philosophical theory in depth and uses practical examples and exercises
throughout, allowing any practitioner to integrate this form of acupuncture into practice as they progress throughout the book. Easy
to follow and easy to use, the book will guide practitioners in the use of a patient's Stem and Branches birth chart to allow them to
combine this information with their own therapeutic approach to formulate tailor-made treatments for each client.
Contents
Contents
Table of divisions, stems, branches,
24 solar periods, 28 lunar mansions
Preface
Acknowledgements
PART
ONE Time, space and the Dao
Chapter 1: Non-time
Four seas
Eight extraordinary meridians
Chapter 2: Sequential time
Reproductive
life
Ageing habits
Forbidden years
Death
Exercises
Chapter 3: Cyclical time
Day and night
The four seasons
The
five elements
Moon cycles
Case study
Recap
Exercises
Chapter 4: The calendar
Farmer's Calendar
Xia (Hsia) calendar
Lunar?solar
calendar
Ever increasing cycles
Chapter 5: Heaven, Earth and humankind (tian, di, ren)
Humans – between a rock and a high
place
The centre
The birth of humankind
Humankind's creativity
The middle region
The triple heater
Clear Heaven and
muddy Earth
Nine pulses of the three regions
Treatments using the principles of Heaven, Earth and humankind
Treatment of mental
and emotional disorders
Chapter 6: Wu xing – five elements
The sheng cycle
The ke cycle
Exercises
PART TWO Heavenly
stems and earthly branches – tian gan di zhi
Chapter 7: Divisions
Divisions of the body
Internal/external pairings of divisions
Host
divisions
Guest division
Treatment strategies
Case study
Exercises
Chapter 8: Great movements
Wood
Fire
Earth
Metal
Water
Treatment
Exercise
Chapter
9: Stem organs
Command points
Balanced qi
Unbalanced qi
Stem treatments
Divergent meridians
Prognosis
Chapter
10: Branches (di zhi)
Chinese clock
Branch inner energy
Branch meridian sequence – the sheng cycle
Anomalies
Branch treatments
Chapter
11: Putting it all together
The Stems and Branches Year Chart
Personal chart
Four pillars
Case studies
Herbs
General
rules
Exercises
Chapter 12: Open-hourly method of point selection
Methods based in branches – na zi fa
Methods using
stems – na jia fa
Intergeneration of points
Using the eight extra meridians
PART THREE The inner core of acupuncture
Chapter
13: The Chinese sky
Huang Di
The shape of the universe
Divisions of the heavens
Three enclosures
Five palaces
The 28
lunar mansions
Four palaces of the cardinal directions
Relationships with the stems and branches
Planets
Chapter 14:
Psychological profiles
Spirit
Emotions
Element types
Stems and the psyche
Branches and the psyche
Character and the
six divisions
Typing according to yin and yang
Clinical applications
Chapter 15: Numerology
The Hetu/Yellow River map
The
Luoshu magic square
Forbidden points
Needle technique
Chapter 16 Symbols
Early Heaven arrangement of trigrams – Fu Xi
Later
Heaven arrangement of trigrams – King Wen
Trigrams and the body
Eight extra meridians and trigrams
Appendices
Appendix
1: Charts
Appendix 2: Astronomy
Appendix 3: Star maps
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
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Hardbound, 320 pages, publication date: OCT-2008
ISBN-13: 978-0-7020-2961-5
ISBN-10: 0-7020-2961-0
Imprint: CHURCHILL LIVINGSTONE
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Last update: 25 Nov 2009
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