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Chinese Acupuncture and Moxibustion
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April 1, 1999 |
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 Three Stars, January 20, 2016
By Mark Brown
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 Horrible. Written by a bunch of government hacks., September 29, 2013
By A Brewer (Warren, Michigan USA)
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There no other reason for the utter lack of pedagogy of this volume. Forget about actually learning anything from this expensive doorstop that makes any sense. All the beauty of the system(s) has been sucked out of this mediocrity. As many hapless students as have been forced into buying this bureaucratic waste of paper and this many editions in, you would expect any true author who gave half a rat's tail to hire someone competent to compile a real index. And watch out for the numerous typos. Good luck. You have been warned.
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Purchase only if you are required to do so..., August 15, 2010
By jellyphish (santa cruz, ca)
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To give an honest review i would undoubtedly repeat what many have already stated, let me instead offer my history with the book. When i entered TCM school a friend who was a recent graduate and handed me her copy, she said "you will need to memorize this...it's my gift to you." I said "won't you want this for your practice, to reference?" She said "no, i would never open it again." This was strange to me at the time, then of course, like most students of TCM i was forced to, as she said, memorize it, got through the boards and then a friend was entering the program, thus i handed it on...he said, "won't you need it?" And of course i said..."no, this is a book i was required to read, for me now...i will reference other texts" the actual end of the sentence for which i held my tongue (so as not to discolor his experience) would have been "it is a worthless pile of trash, written in a grammar no better than a fourth grade elementary student."
That pretty much sums it up. If you are a student, buy it, read it, memorize it...then after the boards pass it on, otherwise there are a number of decent texts available that are more worthwhile.
3 of 4 people found the above review helpful.
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 Chinese Acupuncture & Moxibustion, August 10, 2009
By Old Dog (Northern Virginia, USA)
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This text has been everything I thought it would be, and has provided me with the information I have sought. I readily admit that I am not reading this from cover-to-cover. I predominanlty use it for point reference(s) and location(s).
In my opinion, the stated cost and information provided will be difficult to match. I highly recommend this text for any practitioner who needs to reference acupoint information.
Tony Williams
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Not all bad, but there are alternatives, September 25, 2005
By Philip Tan-Gatue (Manila, Metro Manila Philippines)
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I was given a copy of this book when I signed up for training courses in the Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. It isn't all bad, and I learned a lot from it. The problem is that one can learn so much more from other texts such as Maciocia's Foundations of Chinese Medicine and Deadman, Mazin and Baker's A Manual of Acupuncture. This book tries to be comprehensive, but it is, at times, incomprehensible. For example, Maciocia's writings on TCM Syndrome Differentiation is much easier to comprehend than the equivalent chapters here. In fact, I found myself studying Foundations instead of this book for such topics as the 8 principles. This book also assumes too much. It does not recognize the fact that most westerners cannot readily grasp the marked differences in western and eastern philosophy. Again, this is a topic that Foundations (and Web that has no Weaver) covers much more excellently.
Ultimately, if you must purchase only ONE book on Chinese medicine, this is neither the best nor the worst you can find, but it will be adequate. Otherwise, I highly recommend that you check out various Listmanias (Jeffrey Chapman's is quite excellent) for alternatives.
22 of 24 people found the above review helpful.
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 No. 1 Primary Source Book Recommended by NCCAOM, February 09, 2003
By A customer
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This book is No. 1 primary source book recommended by National Certification Commissions for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. If you are going to take the exam, it is a must ! Yes, the translation is not great, but it is understandable. Do not bypass
all the resource and information you need to take the exam.
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