Overview
There are many reasons why Fundamentals of Chinese Acupuncture remains one of the most-used acupuncture books in the profession. Perhaps first and foremost it is because the authors have applied a precise method of translation that allows clinical experience to be directly transmitted. As well, they have drawn on both modern and classical clinical sources. Thus the text provides consistent information that can be cross-referenced not only to the several companion works but to any translation that maintains a reliable relation to the Chinese language. The information presented includes all the channels, including the extraordinary channels, the main, internal, branch, divergent, connecting, sinew, and alternate pathways as they are currently understood in the People’s Republic of China. The pathway-by-pathway descriptions are supported by sketches that follow the Chinese sources. Main pathologic signs, therapeutic capacities, symptoms, and T.C.M. pattern relationships are also detailed.
Information provided for each point includes Chinese, Pinyin transliteration, English translation, Western alphanumeric designation, anatomical location guide, and classical location, classical and modern indications and functions. Useful reference tables summarize current Chinese clinical experience. Finally, it is a compact, reliable source of practical information at a very reasonable price. In sum, it provides the material necessary for foundation course-work in the study of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Author Information
Andrew Ellis
Andrew Ellis first studied Chinese medicine with Dr. James Tin Yau So at the New England School of Acupuncture. He left New England in 1983 to study Chinese language in Taiwan and apprenticed with Chinese herbalist Xu Fu-Su for several years. Later he studied internal medicine and gynecology at the Xiamen Hospital of Chinese medicine. While there, he also specialized in the study of acupuncture with Dr. Shi Neng-Yun and dermatology with Dr. Zhang Guang-Cai.
Nigel Wiseman
Translator: Ten Lecutres on the Use of Formulas from the Personal Experience of Jiao Shu De
Author: Chinese Grammar for Life, Chinese Medical Characters Volume 1 to 5, Chinese Medicine Grammar and Vocabulary, Concise Chinese Materia Medica, Fundamentals of Chinese Acupuncture, Fundamentals of Chinese Medicine, Grasping the Wind, Introduction of English Terminology of Chinese Medicine, Jin Gui Yao Lue, A Practical Dictionary of Chinese Medicine,.
Nigel Wiseman received his bachelors degree in simultaneous German and Spanish interpretation and translation from Harriot Watt University in 1976, and his PhD in Complementary Medicine from the University of Exeter in 2000. He resides in Taiwan where he is a faculty member at Chang Gung University. He is an editorial board member of the Journal of Chinse Medicine (ROC), The China Medical College Journal (ROC), and Clinical Acupuncture and Moxibustion Journal (UK). He serves on the terminological standards committees of the People’s Republic of China and the World Health Organization.
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