Download or read book Contemporary Medical Acupuncture written by Guan-Yuan Jin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to connect and integrate classical acupuncture therapy and contemporary medicine. Based on updated reviews and systematic analyses, the meridians are actually systems of physiological and pathological reflexes in the body, and acupuncture therapy is a type of reflexotherapy. The systems methodology, together with the authors’ clinical expertise of 40 years, is applied to raise the reproducibility of effectiveness in treating various indications of acupuncture, especially intractable cases. Incisive and concrete theory and technique descriptions, a novel systems approach, and many case studies are included.