Acupuncture (TCM Study Guide Series)

Acupuncture (TCM Study Guide Series)

TCM Study Guide Series: Acupunture provides resource material and multiple-choice questions designed to help TCM practitioners and students prepare themselves to take acupunture board tests. The book's 2,200 questions cover point location and function, needling techniques, moxibustion, ear and head acupunture, case diagnosis, and treatment strategies. Answers to all of the questions are found in the back of the book. The book's resource material provides the location of every primary meridian point, information on point function, special points, points of intersection, ear acupuncture, and a table of terminology equivalencies. "If you enjoy studying, being tested, and learning by searching source material, this is a great book. It even has all the answers in the back." (Journal of Chinese Medicine Number 49, September 1995) "This text makes a valuable contribution to the study of acupuncture and moxibustion and would be an asset to both student and practicioner alike. It makes you think deeply and reflect, and is excellent for revising the basic foundations which we all know are easily forgotten." (Kerry Watson, OMD Victoria University of Technology Australia) "The book has been well designed and presented. The difficulty of designing unambiguous questions has been has been achieved and the format of multiple-choice questions is appropriate. The book is a handy study guide to students both advanced and beginning and can also be used by practitioners to refresh and test their knowledge of acupuncture." -- Christopher Zaslawski Meeting Point Newsletter Shi Cun Wu began his formal education in Traditional Chinese Medicine at Jilin Medical University in Jilin, China, where he graduated in the 1950s. His understanding of TCM began much earlier than this, however, under the tutelage of his father, who was himself a TCM physician. After graduation, Shi Cun Wu engaged in 20 years of TCM clinical practice and research in Chinese hospitals and herbal research bureaus. He authored articles on herbal research for the Journal of Chinese Herbal Medicine and presented his findings at academic conferences. He participated in the project to compile the 1977 edition of the People's Republic of China Pharmacopoeia, helping to define quality standards for the sections on Traditional Herbal Medicine and Herbal-Based Patent Medicine. In addition, he helped write the Guangdong Provincial Traditional Herbal Medicine Preparation Handbook as well as the Traditional Herbal Medicine section of the 1978 edition of the Guangdong Provincial Medicine Standards Manual. After this work, Shi Cun Wu emigrated to the United States, where he has operated an herbal store and taught classes on all aspects of TCM for two decades. He is an NCCA Diplomate in Herbology and Acupuncture.