The Way to Locate Acu-points

Acupuncture and moxibustion are two distinctive fields of traditional.Chinese medicine that have no known paraUel,in the West.Acupuncture treats diseases by puncturing certain points on the body cal,l,ed acupoints with tong metal.needl,es and inducing stimul.ation by various manipulation methods.Moxibustion invol,ves the sl,ow burning of moxa or other material.s to heat or steam the diseased area or acupoints.To achieve the desired therapeutic effect the significance of[ocating acupoints accurately cannot be overemphasized.Dr Yang Jiasan.associate professor and head of the Acupuncture Department at Dongzhimen Hospital.has been both a teacher and a cl,inician for decades.Through practice as wel,[as study of acupuncture l,iterature both ancient and modern.he has developed a method of l,ocating points that those tacking knowledge of traditional,Chinese medical.theory find easy to grasp because it uses modern anatomical.landmarks as much as possible.Its efficiency has been appreciated by students as wel,l,as patients of acupuncture treatment.