THE STUDY OF ACUPUNCTURE: SOURCES AND STUDY TECHNIQUES

Part 4
Philip A.M. Rogers MRCVS
e-mail : progers@grange.teagasc.ie
1980, 1982, 1984, updated 1990, 1993, 1995
Postgraduate Course in Veterinary AP, Dublin, 1996

APPENDIX

GENERAL INFORMATION

INTERNET (WWW) SITES ON AP

The Medical Acupuncture Web Page (Great site in Greece for medical acupuncture; will open a veterinary acupuncture site there soon)

Alternative Vet Medicine

American Soc of Dowsers

Osteopathy Links

The Mage's Guide to WWW)

EMAIL GROUPS :

Complementary and Alternative Med and Vet Med (CAM&VM-L): This List is confined to professionals, mainly medics, vets and students of these subjects. To join the group, email your application to: swynn@emory.edu, or swynn@mindspring.com, or jbergeron@monmouth.com

IVAS: You may contact IVAS by emailing IVASJAGG@msn.com

COMPUTER DATABASES OF AP:

IVAS (c/o David Jagger, 5139 Sugarloaf Rd., Boulder, CO 80302-9217, USA; Fax +1-303-449-8312) has a listing of computerised abstracts on AP (email: IVASJAGG@msn.com).
Professor Jean Bossy, Centre Hospitallier et Universitaire de Nimes, Nimes-Cedex, France has an extensive computerised bibliography of AP

JOURNALS ON AP AND ALLIED FIELDS

ACUPUNCTURE AS A KEYWORD IN ABSTRACTING JOURNALS

VETERINARY AP GROUPS/SOCIETIES/ASSOCIATIONS

Many of these groups run AP seminars or courses. Contact persons are given.

MEDICAL AP SOCIETIES AND SCHOOLS

Many Western countries have specialist AP schools (but whose teachers are not medically qualified). They provide classical training in AP and usually accept vet and med professionals but the courses are too long for most of those professionals.

Medical AP Societies and groups hold shorter AP courses and seminars. Most accept vets at these meetings. Other Institutes arrange short or longer crash-courses, as needed by professionals:

AP SUPPLY HOUSES (NEEDLES, BOOKS, EQUIPMENT ETC)

VETERINARY AP CHARTS

For practical purposes, most AP points in animals are located by transposition from human positions, making allowances for differences in anatomy. Traditional charts and accompanying booklets exist for horses, cattle, pigs, goats and camels. IVAS can supply charts for many species. (See also the Vet texts below). Although this is an incomplete list, other sources of animal AP charts are:

Primate/lab animal charts: by transposition from standard human texts

AP READING MATERIAL

BASIC TEXTS (those asterisked are suggested as essential texts)

CLASSIC CONCEPTS

OTHER TEXTS

MASTER POINTS FOR COS THERAPY

Taken together, the 66 Command/Su Points, plus the Shu, Mu, Luo, Xi, Test, Ryodoraku, HE, Hour and SP21 Points are called the Master Points of AP.

1. In disorder of the associated Channel-Organ System (COS), there is usually tenderness on palpation of the Yuan, Mu, Shu and Test points. The Test points may feel cold in Yin states and hot in Yang states. The RYODORAKU points are electro-sensitive diagnostic points used in Japanese diagnosis. Their readings are hypo- in Yin and hyper- in Yang states.

2. All Master Points, except Shu, Mu and HE points, are on their own Channels and lie between the elbow and finger or between the knee and toe.

3. The Yuan-Luo combination uses the Yuan of the affected COS with the Luo of the Phase-Mate COS, i.e in lung disease, LU09 (Yuan of LU) plus LI06 (Luo of LI).

4. SP21 is the Great Luo point (Luo point of all the Yin COSs).

                   
                   The Five Phase Points     Tonic Sedat.
Affected COS    Wood Fire Earth Metal Water  point point  Yuan  Luo
LV (Wood-Yin )    01   02    03    04    08     08    02    03   05
GB (Wood-Yang)    41   38    34    44    43     43    38    40   37
HT (Fire-Yin )    09   08    07    04    03     09    07    07   05
SI (Fire-Yang)    03   05    08    01    02     03    08    04   07
PC (Fire-Yin )    09   08    07    05    03     09    07    07   06
TH (Fire-Yang)    03   06    10    01    02     03    10    04   05
SP (Earth-Yin )   01   02    03    05    09     02    05    03   04
ST (Earth-Yang)   43   41    36    45    44     41    45    42   40
LU (Metal-Yin )   11   10    09    08    05     09    05    09   07
LI (Metal-Yang)   03   05    11    01    02     11    02    04   06
KI (Water-Yin )   01   02    03    07    10     07    01    03   04
BL (Water-Yang)   65   60    40    67    66     67    65    64   58
                            Xi-                  RYODO   HE
                            Cleft  HOUR   Test   -RAKU   (SEA)
Affected COS    Shu   Mu    point  point  point  point   point
LV (Wood-Yin )  BL18  LV14     06     01     08     03       -
GB (Wood-Yang)  BL19  GB24     36     41  33-39     40    GB34
HT (Fire-Yin )  BL15  CV14     06     08  07-09     07       -
SI (Fire-Yang)  BL27  CV04     06     05  03-04     05    ST39
PC (Fire-Yin )  BL14  CV17     04     08     04     07       -
TH (Fire-Yang)  BL22  CV05     07     06  04-10     04    BL53   
SP (Earth-Yin ) BL20  LV13     08     03     09     02       -
ST (Earth-Yang) BL21  CV12     34     36  34-36     43    ST36  
LU (Metal-Yin ) BL13  LU01     06     08     06     09       -
LI (Metal-Yang) BL25  ST25     07     01     11     05    ST37
KI (Water-Yin ) BL23  GB25     05     10     07     05       -
BL (Water-Yang) BL28  CV03     63     66  59-60     65    BL40

ROUGH GUIDE TO CHANNEL RELATIONSHIPS ON NECK, THORAX AND ABDOMEN

This is a guide to the major functions of AP points on the neck, thorax and abdomen. THERE IS CONSIDERABLE OVERLAP IN POINT FUNCTION ! It helps if you use good Channel charts when studying the anatomical relationships between these points and their relationships to vertebrae and spinal innervation.

                   FUNCTIONALLY RELATED Channel POINTS                  
 GV      BL      KI      ST     SP      CV    ORGAN/FUNCTIONS CONTROLLED

NECK
 15      10       -      09      -      23	head/pituitary/parathyroid/
					thyroid/neck/trachea/oesophagus
THORACIC AREA                                             
 14   11-12      27   10-11      -      22	head/neck/thyroid/parathyoid/
					upper limb/trachea/bronchi/
					oesophagus
 13      13      26      14      -      20	thorax/upper limb/bronchi/lungs/thymus/heart /oesophagus
 12      14      24      16     20      18	same
 12      15      22      18     18      16	same
 11      16      19      20   21/17     14	thorax/lungs/heart/oesophagus
 10      17   17-18      22     16      12	diaphragm/stomach
 09      18      16      24   16-15     10	stomach/liver/gallbladder      
 08      19      15      25     15      08	gastrointestine/spleen/pancreas										
07-06    20      14      26     14   07-06	gastrointestine/spleen/pancreas/
					urinary/reproductive/adrenal/
					pituitary
LUMBAR AREA
06-04 21-23      13      27     14   06-04	gastrointestine/urinary/
					reproductive/ adrenal/pituitary/
					ovary/testis/tubes/kidney/hindlimb

04-03 23-26      12      28     13   04-03	intestinal/urinary/reproductive/ovary/    uterus/cervix/testis/prostate/bladder/hindlimb

l/s       26      12      29     13      03	intestinal/urinary/reproductive/uterus/
					cervix/prostate/bladder/hindlimb

SACRAL AREA
02    27-30      11      30     12      02	intestinal/urinary/reproductive/cervix/
					prostate/bladder/urethra/rectum/penis/
					vagina/vulva/hindlimb
1        35      11      30     12      01	cervix/prostate/bladder/urethra/rectum/
					penis/vagina/vulva

Questions 1: http://homepage.eircom.net/~progers/ivasexam/qsoustu1.htm
Questions 2: http://homepage.eircom.net/~progers/ivasexam/qsoustu2.htm