Guest guest Posted March 2, 2004 Report Share Posted March 2, 2004 Hi... I am currently doing a reseach on chinese acupuncture. I have some enquiry hope someone can enlightened me. How can we measure the acupoints acurately? Is each acupoints being define by the CUN system? doese each person has the same distance in terms of CUN between the acupoints? Please advice. THank you... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 2, 2004 Report Share Posted March 2, 2004 Hi Well, there are instruments that one can use to measure where the acupoints are (I think the electrical properties at those points are a bit different and is what the instruments pick up). The points may be located via measurement on the body, or certain body locations, eg Spleen 6 which is 3 cun up from the ankle's " point " . Each persons cuns are slightly different and should be taken in relation to the body's measurments, eg the width of your thumb at the base of your nail is *your* cun measurement. fred > > blueskie_09 [blueskie_09] > Tuesday, March 02, 2004 10:22 PM > Chinese Medicine > Location of Acu-points > > > Hi... > > I am currently doing a reseach on chinese acupuncture. I have some > enquiry hope someone can enlightened me. How can we measure the > acupoints acurately? Is each acupoints being define by the CUN > system? doese each person has the same distance in terms of CUN > between the acupoints? > > Please advice. > THank you... > > > > Membership requires that you do not post any commerical, swear, > religious, spam messages,flame another member or swear. > > To change your email settings, i.e. individually, daily digest or > none, visit the groups’ homepage: > Chinese Medicine/ click > ‘edit my membership' on the right hand side and adjust accordingly. > > To send an email to > <Chinese Medicine- > from > the email account you joined with. You will be removed > automatically but will still recieve messages for a few days. > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 3, 2004 Report Share Posted March 3, 2004 Distinction between the points on the charts... which is how the Chinese train the thousands of doctors they must " mass produce " annually, and the Japanese school. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 3, 2004 Report Share Posted March 3, 2004 blueskie_09 wrote: I am currently doing a reseach on chinese acupuncture. I have some enquiry hope someone can enlightened me. How can we measure the acupoints acurately? Is each acupoints being define by the CUN system? doese each person has the same distance in terms of CUN between the acupoints? > > cun is the universal measure for locating points, it would differ for each person because a big man's cun would be several times the same in a small woman. cun-measure is more or less stationary in Chinese school, because the points are not considered to move. if you are working by that cshool, look for points in traditional locations. the japanese school, which is the result at least by half of the work of great masters who were blind, worsk with 'movable' points, which are found as a result of palpation, and not by a fixed location. say K 7; which by TCM is 2 cun above K 3 anterior to tendon achilles. by japanese school, [after Matsumoto], it wanders away and can be found anywhere on an area which is upto a cun away from the traditional location. this is how you find it: 'slide your fingers upwards from K 3; the point is found at the area which is [gummy, edematous, raised] which lies between the border of tibia and tendon. almost every time i look for it, i find it midway between bone and tendon, on a raised edematous pad. when needled, there is next to no pain, supporting the basic dictum of japanese acupuncture, " If there is pain, there is Depletion. Work so that there is none. " Dr. Holmes Keikobad MB BS DPH Ret. DIP AC NCCAOM LIC AC CO & AZ www.acu-free.com - home based recertification for acupuncturists and health professionals Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 3, 2004 Report Share Posted March 3, 2004 this message came in trucated. Can you resend as plain txt? Dr. Holmes Keikobad MB BS DPH Ret. DIP AC NCCAOM LIC AC CO & AZ www.acu-free.com - home based recertification for acupuncturists and health professionals - <DrGRPorter <Chinese Medicine > Wednesday, March 03, 2004 12:23 PM Re: Location of Acu-points Distinction between the points on the charts... which is how the Chinese train the thousands of doctors they must " mass produce " annually, and the Japanese school. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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