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Principles and Practice Contemporary Acupuncture Sung Liao, Mathew H. M. Lee, Lorenz K.
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Acupuncture has been practiced for centuries on an essentially pragmatic basis. Its practitioners make no claim to understand why it is effective and to what extent it is Even though great efforts have been made since ancient times to explain it, acupuncture has remained basically at the medieval level. the Western-trained mind, this is an intolerable predicament. The authors of this book, basically clinicians in the field of chronic pain abatement and rehabilitation, have had extensive experience in basic and clinical research academically, and have also been practicing acupuncture since Collectively, we have treated tens of thousands of patients and have learned enormously from caring for them. This experience has convinced that acupuncture does have an important place in the clinical management of chronic pain and other disease conditions, complementary and supplemental to mainstream Western medicine. Our interest in utilizing acupuncture as a therapeutic modality combined with our desire to advance its scientific foundation compels to share our experiences and our ideas in this book, however personal and anecdotal, with physicians, dentists, other health-care professionals, and all others who wish to gain some insight into this fascinating healing art. efforts, if they appear controversial, must by no means be misconstrued as derogatory. Our hope is to upgrade this ancient healing art to complement mainstream modern medicine in order to, the Chinese say, ferry all the sufferers drowning in the bitter sea across to the shores of happiness. Hence, humanity will be better served. We trust our readers will concur with us. This book was originally started in the early by one of The real impetus to write this current book collectively started when first and then LKYN determined that there