Ting Point is misnomer for Jing-Well Point

[Guest guest]

The French acupuncture school also called the jing point 'ting' points. When

I studied acupuncture here in Belgium they were still called ting points,

and for all that I know that may still be the case.

 

 

 

Tom Verhaeghe

 

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8770 Ingelmunster

 

www.chinese-geneeskunde.be

 

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zondag 19 oktober 2008 19:18

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Ting Point is misnomer for Jing-Well Point

 

 

 

Hi Wendy, & All,

 

> Can anyone tell me the etymology of " ting points " ? The main references

> to them on Google seem to be in Equine acupunture - Ting point therapy

> devised by a Norwegian Dr Thoresen. I believe them to be the same as

> Jing-Well points, but I do not have any reference to them as Ting

> points in any of my TCM books, and that name was never used on our

> Acupuncture course.

 

You are correct. The term Ting point is a misnomer for Jing3 xue2

(Well Points), the terminal points on each of the 12 main channels.

 

In vet AP training courses, the term Ting point is used because that

is what Are Thoresen (who pioneered their use in horses) called them

originally. But we also know them as the Jing-Well points.

 

IMO, the original term probably was a mis-read (from hand-written

notes) of a capital T instead of a capital J.

 

Best regards,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Hi Wendy, & All,

 

> Can anyone tell me the etymology of " ting points " ? The main references

> to them on Google seem to be in Equine acupunture - Ting point therapy

> devised by a Norwegian Dr Thoresen. I believe them to be the same as

> Jing-Well points, but I do not have any reference to them as Ting

> points in any of my TCM books, and that name was never used on our

> Acupuncture course.

 

You are correct. The term Ting point is a misnomer for Jing3 xue2

(Well Points), the terminal points on each of the 12 main channels.

 

In vet AP training courses, the term Ting point is used because that

is what Are Thoresen (who pioneered their use in horses) called them

originally. But we also know them as the Jing-Well points.

 

IMO, the original term probably was a mis-read (from hand-written

notes) of a capital T instead of a capital J.

 

Best regards,