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EAR ACUPUNCTURE
Ear Acupuncture
A Practical Guide
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By
Kajsa Landgren, Practising Acupuncturist, Helsingborg, Sweden

Description
Ear Acupuncture provides an up-to-date practical guide to the principles and practice of Chinese and Western ear acupuncture. Written clearly with a practical and sensible approach, this book is aimed at both the student and also the practitioner. Excellent two-colour illustrations are used throughout to illustrate the text. Additionally, it integrates the Chinese and Western opinions and also includes chapters covering ear acupuncture used in the treatment of addiction and also the Western theories about how acupuncture works.

Audience
Students and practitioners of ear acupuncture (auriculotherapy).
All acupuncture and Oriental medicine students and practitioners
Manual therapists (including physiotherapists, chiropractors)

Contents
Chapter 1 The history of ear acupuncture

Chapter 2 A brief look at Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)

Chapter 3 Differences between ear and body acupuncture

Chapter 4 Other Microsystems

Chapter 5 Explanatory models for acupuncture

Chapter 6 The ear: its parts and acupuncture points

Chapter 7 The reflex points

Chapter 8 Functional points

Chapter 9 Equipment

Chapter 10 Examination of the ear

Chapter 11 Method

Chapter 12 Treatment suggestions

Chapter 13 NADA: using ear acupuncture to fight addiction

Bibliography

Point Index

Index

Bibliographic details
Hardbound, 224 pages, publication date: MAY-2008
ISBN-13: 978-0-443-06899-7
ISBN-10: 0-443-06899-2
Imprint: CHURCHILL LIVINGSTONE


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Last update: 10 Sep 2009
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