Acupuncture Imaging

This guide for bodyworkers and their patients clearly explains the energetic systems of the body, and serves as an excellent teaching tool, enabling patients to better understand their own treatment.

This book introduces essential advances in acupuncture studies using multi-modality neuroimaging, which provides insights into how specific brain networks are involved in acupuncture effects in humans. Stimulating different acupoints to treat various clinical conditions is usually accompanied by multi-dimensional physiological as well as psychological responses, which are regulated by the central nervous system. The book addresses disease-specific neural correlates and acupuncture-targeted regulatory encoding in the brain, and explains the temporal-spatial encoding in brain networks to clarify the acupuncture mechanisms. By highlighting the targeting mechanisms of typical indications of acupuncture, this book provides a scientific explanation for acupuncture therapy.

The Chinese acupuncturists use needles to treat at least one hundred fifty kind diseases with successes for thousands of years on more than one billion people with remarkable success. But it has not been accepted by the main stream Western medicine, and taught in main stream medical school. Probably it is due to two factors: theoretically it has not been explained by modern science, and second there is no quantitative objective evidence for it. This book answers these two questions. It provides modern scientific explanation to important concepts, especially meridians and qi. What are meridians made up of? What are acupoints? What is qi? Can they be seen? This book presents copious pictures taken by infrared images method. They provide the objective evidence how acupuncture works, what are meridians made up of, and what is the measurable effect of qi. Each thermograph has more than ten thousand pixels. Each pixel is associated with one temperature to the accuracy of 0.1 0 C. So the science of acupuncture becomes a quantitative science with enormous accurate numbers as supporting evidence. This book contains twenty nine easy to read articles, which cover many important topics in acupuncture and Chinese medicine. Each essay has at least one infrared image, So the reader can see the images for himself, and understand that there are incredible accurate data supporting acupuncture and Chinese medicine.

This book explains how to use Tung acupuncture points to treat pain and internal diseases.

Acupuncture is rapidly moving out of the arena of "alternative" medicine, in large part because it is grounded more firmly than other alternative treatments in research. This book provides readers with the up-to-date information on the clinical bases of acupuncture.

Take away the guess work Eliminate the complexity Want to know what works? Our Master Tung book about images, Mirrors and relationships was NOT only written to help explain these concepts, it was written to help you choose the BEST image in your clinic. --- No longer will it take 50,000 patients and 10 years to "figure out" what works "best." This book has done this for you. Honest, open, factual and clinically effective based Acupuncture tips for the 21st century The first of kind written not by a scholar, but a practitioner who treats 110 patients per week. The first of its kind to tell what ideas work best, TODAY, in a Western patient based clinic. The first of its kind based on getting RESULTS Use this book and watch your clinical success skyrocket. Improved results, happier patients, a busier office, and finally UNDERSTANDING the "what" the "why" and "which one should I use." Table of contents: Chapter 1 Why does imaging and mirroring work? Chapter 2 Imaging and Mirroring Techniques -1 for 1 image -12 segments -Fully clothed acupuncture -Face on leg or arm -Top 3 keys to using images and mirrors -Face and groin area -Full image or mirror on half a limb -Tissue correspondence- Like for Like -Image and mirror, homologous structure -Quarter image -Three Jiaos -Theory -Inguinal Crease -Scalp Image- How to avoid Du 1 treatments -Belly Face Chapter 3 Secrets to Success Chapter 4 Where does distal acupuncture fall short? Chapter 5 Letters to Brad - Your Questions Answered -Achilles tendon pain -Bulging disc, back pain and pinched nerve -Can you combine Tung with TCM? -Dizziness in older people is damp and phlegm -Dysmenorrhea treatment - Tung style -How to treat your own hip pain -Inguinal hernia -Low back pain - treated using homologous scapula -Man fell on carpet, now has neck pain -Meniere's, tinnitus and dizziness -Menstrual cycles and fertility timing -Mixing Chinese and Japanese, is that setting up for failure? -Nocturnal enuresis in a 10 year old boy -Parkinson's treatment -Post herpetic neuralgia -Quick fix for calming people -Restless leg syndrome -Severe sciatica in Australia -Varicose veins Chapter 6 Acupuncture Meridian Images Chapter 7 Imaging Tables Chapter 8 Tung Acupuncture Point Illustrations Chapter 9 Anatomy references - muscles and bones Chapter 10 Correspondence Images

This book represents a significant advance in the field of evidence-based acupuncture, specifically in regard to neurological disorders. It is a testament to the promising future of acupuncture, integrating the complexities of the human brain with the healing art of acupuncture. Each chapter leads readers to an expanded perspective where past and future, tradition and technology, converge in the pursuit of healing and well-being. In recent decades, technologies like functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) have revolutionized our understanding of the human brain, enabling scientists to observe the brain’s response to acupuncture in real-time. Tracing the pathways from acupoint to brain structure reveals fresh insights on the therapeutic function of acupoints and meridians. Participate in this journey to understand how acupuncture influences the brain, exploring new frontiers in the treatment and understanding of brain-related conditions. This book offers a rich blend of traditional healing wisdom and contemporary scientific insight.