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a) When the coupled Meridians of the same Element are out of balance with each other, tonify the Connecting Point of the Deficient Meridian.
b) When two Meridians along the Creative Cycle are out of balance, and the Mother Meridian is Excess with respect to the Child Meridian, tonify the Mother Point (Tonification Point) of the Child Meridian. Both Meridians must be of the same (Yin-Yang) polarity.
c) When two Meridians along the Control cycle are out of balance, and the Controlling Meridian is Excess with respect to the Controlled Meridian, tonify the Controlling Point of the Controlled Meridian. This protocol only works for the Yin Meridians.
The common aspect of these three protocols is needling the Deficient Meridian to attract energy from the Excess Meridian.
23. SPIRIT OF THE POINTS. Each acupuncture Point has one or more traditional names which are purported to be emblems of their individual esoteric therapeutic potentials. This aspect of traditional teaching can be used to select Points to best match the level of imbalance. For example, some Points such as the group called “Windows of the Sky” are preferentially indicated in Spirit level imbalances because they all contain the term “Sky” or “Heaven” (tian) which is related to Spirit in Chinese metaphysics. The “Windows of the Sky” were originally mentioned in Ling Shu Chapters Two, Five and Twenty One, and found their way into LA from Mann-1, pps. 133-134. Like the doctrine of the Officials, the Spirit of the Points involves a kind of personification of components of the human microcosm. This Point personification was an important development of the medically inclined religious Daoists, and is exemplified in the Yellow Court Classic (c. second century) a component of the Daoist Patrology (Dao Zang). Contemporary Daoist practitioners such as Jeffrey Yuen in New York make extensive use of the Spirit of the Points in teaching and practicing acupuncture. Worsley’s inclusion of this concept in LA most likely reflects the influence of Lavier, who gave multiple examples of how to choose Points based on their traditional names in his 1966 work (pps. 245-248).
24. SEVEN DRAGONS FOR SEVEN DEVILS. This picturesque phrase is the name for a formulaic protocol for treating cases of demonic possession due to either External Devils (GV 20, B 11, B 23, B 61) or Internal Devils (CV 15 or the Master Point halfway from CV 15 to CV 14, S 25, S 32, S 41). Worsley claimed to have learned this treatment from his “Master Hsiue.” Historically, a similar protocol called the Thirteen Ghost Points was used by Sun Si-miao in the Tang dynasty. The Internal Dragons treatment, including the Master Point on the conception Vessel was identified as a Tang dynasty prescription for hysteria by an aged acupuncturist interviewed by Allegra Wint at the Yunnan College of TCM in Kunming in 1982 (personal communication from Ms. Wint).
25. NEEDLE TECHNIQUE. LA employs a considerably different needle technique than is typical of TCM. The goal of TCM acupuncture is for the patient to experience a sensation called “de Qi,” which can be perceived as heaviness, soreness, aching or distention. In LA on the other hand, it is the practitioner who feels the “Qi” through the handle of the needle, and it is not considered necessary for the patient to feel anything at all. Worsley’s clinical nickname, “the Feather,” undoubtedly refers to this delicacy of touch. This aspect of LA needle technique is shared with the majority of Japanese styles of practice, to which Worsley was exposed. A second aspect of LA needle technique which distinguishes it from TCM is the rapidity of needling in tonification, a procedure which is accomplished in a few seconds. Again, this echoes the practice in many Japanese styles (see Ohsawa-1, p. 258). It was also the technique taught by Lavier which would have prepared the way for Worsley’s subsequent Japanese teachers. In both of these styles antecedent to LA, sedation or dispersion is accomplished by a more prolonged retention of the needle, from twenty to thirty minutes being typical.
26. RAPPORT. Successful treatment in any medical system depends on many factors including the intangible doctor-patient relationship. Thus, rapport between practitioner and patient is important in TCM as well as in LA, but in the latter approach it has added significance. Unlike training in TCM, in LA the single clinical skill which receives the most time and attention is learning to develop one’s rapport with individual patients. In my mind there is no question that this harkens back to LA’s roots in shamanistic practices. Also, it is only when rapport is achieved that the patient’s true identity–not only persona, but also color, sound, odor and emotion–will reveal themselves behind the habitual social mask. Thus, the practitioner must join with the patient in a vision of themselves, not only as they are at the moment, but as they would be if they were totally healthy in Body, Mind and Spirit. This ideal is based on the practitioner as educator, and is firmly rooted in the Nei Jing. It also calls on the practitioner to himself embody the highest standards of knowledge, skill, wisdom, compassion and humility. In the words of Christoph Hufeland (see Fig.111) presaging a virtually identical statement by J.R. Worsley some two hundred years later, “Never forget that it is not you but only Nature who can heal disease. You are only an assistant who increases Nature’s capacity and performance.” b
ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
LISTED BY FIGURE NUMBER
Neal White: frontispiece, 17, 23, 32, 50, 52, 53, 55, 140A
Pedro Chan: 1
Tobe Soshichiro: 2, 10, 78, 119, 120, 129, 130, 132, 141, 142, 143, 150, 151, 152, 153, 155, 157, 158, 159, 160, 177, 184B, 187, 204, 205, 209, 216, 217
Traditional Acupuncture Society: 4, 35, 36, 37, 193
Xinhua News Agency: 5
Sally Reston and the New York Times: 6
People’s Medical Publishing House 15, 16
Yul-Hwa-Dang: 24
British Museum, London: 25
National Museum, Tokyo: 26
Foreign Languages Press: 27
Chengdu College of TCM: 28
United Features Syndicate: 30
China Welfar Institute: 33
Sheng-chi t’ u: 34
National Museum of Korea: 39
Joseph Needham: 40, 212
Oriental Healing Arts Institute: 41, 57, 59, 72, 73, 77, 93, 95, 161, 174, 218
China Books: 42, 62, 64, 68
Seligman Collection: 43
Alan Covell: 44, 45, 46
Editions Payot: 47
Jon Covell: 48, 49
Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine: 54
Wolfram Eberhard: 56
National Palace Museum, Taipei: 58, 62
Johns Hopkins Press: 60
Hamard Foundation: 61, 65, 66, 70, 71, 74, 75, 76, 79, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 87, 88, 89
University of California, San Francisco: 67
K. Chmin Wong and Wu Lien-Teh: 69, 122
Blue Poppy Press: 86
Lok Yee-Kung: 90
Wu Liu: 91A, 219
Stephan Palos: 91B
Ren Jianning: 92
Gilian Foulkes: 94, 195, 196
John Worsely: 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 166, 176, 207, 229
Robert Felt: 103, 220
Harry Cadman: 104
Joyce Lawson-Wood: 105
Royston Low: 106, 107
Peter Firebrace: 108
George Ohsawa Macrobiotic Foundation: 109
Ronald Kotzsch: 110, 115, 116, 215
Frankfurt Goethe Museum: 111
Trevor Cook: 112, 113
East West Journal: 114
Meridiens: 117, 121
Hashimoto Mariko: 118, 125, 126, 127A and B, 128, 131
J.R. Worsley: 123, 181B
Roger De la Fuye: 124
Takenouchi Misao: 127C and D
Norman Ozaki: 133, 134, 135, 135, 136, 137, 138
H. Ota: 139
Masaru Toguchi: 140B
Shudo Denmei: 144
Fukushima Kodo: 145
Association Française d’Acupuncture: 146
Mme. J. Schatz: 147, 190, 191
Johannes Bischko: 148
Margaret Ho: 154, 156, 198, 199, 200, 201, 202, 203
Eric Tao: 162
Je
an Niboyet-fis: 163
Pat Rose-Neil: 164
Kenneth Basham: 165
Nicholas Sofroniou: 167
G.T. and N.R. Lewith: 168
Philip Chancellor: 169, 170
Denis Lawson-Wood: 171, 172
Mary Austin: 173
Cuang Yu-min: 175
Ryoichi Gunji: 178
Luying Liaw: 179, 181A, 206, 228
Kuon Dowon: 180
Nagayama Toyoko: 182
Anton Jayasuriya: 183
Ralph Thambirajah: 185
A. Duron: 186
Mario Wexu: 188, 189
Nguyen Van Nghi: 192
Jean Marc Kespi: 194
Easland Press: 197
Ono Bunkei: 2080
W.R. Morse: 213
The Dr. Edward Bach Centre: 214
Renmin Weisheng Chubanshe: 221
Handok Medico-Pharma Museum: 222
Jean Borsadello: 223, 224, 225, 226, 227
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