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Acupuncture for Brain
Tianjun Wang
Acupuncture for Brain Treatment for Neurological and Psychologic Disorders
Tianjun Wang TJ Acupuncture Academy and UK Centre for Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine London UK
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Foreword
Acupuncture and the Brain “Missing Links” Early on in my acupuncture practice back in the 1990s, a patient of mine asked me to visit her father who was in hospital after suffering a serious stroke. I have not forgotten the dreary ward where he and other patients lay wretched and helpless, struggling to comprehend the terrible loss of physical feeling and control. My patient’s father lit up at the possibility that the insertion of acupuncture needles might help in some as-yet unfathomable way. As I applied my traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) diagnosis of “internal Liver wind” and “phlegm channel blockage”, it struck me that there was a gaping hole in TCM organ physiology. How could a stroke, a condition that is essentially an injury of the central nervous system and thus of the Brain, not figure in TCM? Why was the Brain described as merely a “Fu”, or “extra organ”, of little consequence to either diagnosis or treatment? In the early days of practice, it was easy to gloss over such omissions and be smitten by the discovery of “stagnations”, “deficiencies” and “excess”, so eloquent in describing the symptoms that acupuncturists were taught to observe in their sick patients. Acupuncture practice has evolved in many ways since then, but it remains the case that the language of T
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