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Author:Wei
Chieh Young
Pages:N/A
Book Type:
Trade paperback book
ISBN:9780977902682
Year Published:N/A
Dr Young Wei Chieh, author of the well-known Tung acupuncture books, brings
students and practitioners a highly useful and clinically insightful text
dealing with the five transport points, the special acupoints found on each of
the twelve channels distal to the elbows or knees. Known as the jing-well
points, ying-spring points, shu-stream points, jing-river points, and he-sea
points, these five types of points all have spcial characteristics related to
the five phases, and thus they are sometimes called the five phases points. The
ancients used anaologies of these points to describe the movement and strength
of qi and blood, and thus each of the points has a unique function.The chapter,
"Nine Needles and Twelve Yuan-Source points" in the Ling Shu says: "...as the qi
ascends and descends, it emerges at the jing-well points, flows at the ying-spring
points, pours at the shu-stream points, moves at the jing-river points, and
enters at the he-sea points. As the twenty-seven kinds of qi move, it is all
done thus through the five transport points."
The text covers, in 26 chapters, their significance, characteristics, locations,
tenets and principles, applications, treatments, point combination methods,
restriction-based treatment methods, mother-child point selection, Yuan-source
points, using transport points as local points, spatial correspondences,
temporal correspondences, seasonal and hourly point selection, zi wu liu zhu
closed/open points, visceral correspondences, qi affinity point selection, I
Ching hexagram point selection, acupoint bleeding, taiji correspondences,
connecting channel point selection, combinatory principles and methods, notes
from Dr. Young's personal experience, and a synthesis of point applications.
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