Acupuncture Today and in Ancient China Contributor(s): Kovich, Fletcher (Author) |
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ISBN: 1916483070 ISBN-13: 9781916483071 Publisher: Fletcher Kovich OUR PRICE: $67.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2019 |
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BISAC Categories: - Health & Fitness | Acupressure & Acupuncture (see Also Medical - Acupuncture) - Medical | Acupuncture - Medical | Alternative & Complementary Medicine |
Physical Information: 0.95" H x 7.5" W x 9.25" (1.78 lbs) 474 pages |
Themes: - Topical - Health & Fitness |
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Publisher Description: Chinese acupuncture is a mixture of ideas from ancient Chinese scripts (the Nei Jing ) and from the 1970's reinterpretation of the Nei Jing . Parts of the Nei Jing are fact based, parts are metaphorical, and parts are based on theories that are simply untrue. However, this is not usually acknowledged and instead the Nei Jing is only selectively quoted and presented as though it were all factual. This has produced a medical system that is notoriously difficult for Westerners to understand, has no scientific basis, and is at odds with today's physiology. |
Contributor Bio(s): Kovich, Fletcher: - Fletcher Kovich was born in 1960 in the UK. His early training was in electronic engineering and music, and he worked as a music teacher, then a technical author in the software industry. In 2001, he began training in Chinese acupuncture and in 2005 he set up his own Chinese acupuncture practice in Bristol, UK. In 2016, he published a groundbreaking book on Chinese acupuncture, which provides a new explanation of how acupuncture works and also clearly describes the key aspects of Chinese medicine in terms that today's readers can understand. Since 2017, he has been conducting a research project to obtain objective scientific data to validate his "intelligent tissue" hypothesis on what acupuncture is and how it works. He has already published several scientific papers describing the results. |