Autorentext

Ann Cecil-Sterman is the author of the widely acclaimed book, Advanced Acupuncture: A Clinic Manual, a required text in many acupuncture schools in the United States and the first and only text with complete protocols for the Complement Channels. Since the publication of Advanced Acupuncture in 2013, Ann has travelled the world, to Spain, Australia, Belgium, Italy, England, Canada, Mexico and all over the United States to teach the application and methodology of the Complement Channels, the art of pulse diagnosis, and the use of food as medicine. For many years she taught Advanced Clinical Observation and was a senior clinic supervisor at her alma mater: the school of acupuncture (founded as an arm of the Swedish Institute) by Dr Jeffrey Yuen in 1997 in New York City. She is a long-time student of Dr Yuen, having extensivelystudied acupuncture, diet, Chinese medical history, herbs, qigong, essential oils, stones and philosophy with him across North America. Ann was Director of the Classical Wellness Center in Manhattan where for many years she practiced and taught classes on advanced diagnosis and the theory and application of Classical Chinese Medicine.

Klappentext

The first book of its kind, the Advanced Acupuncture Clinic Manual contains detailed protocols for the application of the Complement Channels of acupuncture: the Sinew, Luo, Divergent and Eight Extraordinary Vessels. This is the first book to contain detailed protocols for the these channels. The book is now a required textbook in many schools across the United States and is in wide use in Europe and Australia. In the second edition all the points of all the channels are added to the illustrations. This unique book is indispensible in the clinic to practitioners interested in deepening their acupuncture practice by utilizing all the channels of acupuncture described in the classical texts, including the foundation of acupuncture, the Nei Jing. Many of these channels which were in disuse from the Tang Dynasty onward. The book includes over one hundred drawings, diagrams, detailed theories of the Sinew, Luo, Divergent and Eight Extraordinary Channels—collectively known as the Complement Channels—guides for diagnosis, needling techniques, illustrations of all the channels of acupuncture, protocols for the use of all the channels, indexes on equipment, safety, healing events, culativation, and much more, derived from the writer's years of intense study with Dr Jeffrey Yuen and years of practice in the clinic. 466 pages.