However, in terms of acupuncture techniques, could you imagine that the manipulation methods of applying a needle to a patient could have more than 10 different methods for guiding the Qi (tonifying or reducing) to strengthen or relax the patient? Unbelievable, right?
To be honest with you, even though I never thought about it, I thought acupuncture was only for needling the acupoints on the different channels to treat the patient. I was utterly wrong. Possibly because I didn't have much experience with acupuncture, I only experienced it once, years ago. I had three months of intensive acupuncture treatments from my motherland because of the terrible lower back pain in 2001. As a patient at the time, I didn't even think about what techniques my Chinese Practitioner used; the only primary concern was the progress of my condition, and thankfully, I was fully recovered in the end.
Anyhow, if you are a qualified Acupuncturist looking to improve your practice, there is a book I would highly recommend - Acupuncture Techniques: A Practical Manual by TianJun Wang and Weixiang Wang.
This book is the first English language textbook on acupuncture and moxibustion techniques, co-authored by eighteen acupuncture experts from China and abroad. It was published by the world-renowned science, technology, and medical publisher Springer. Most of the authors are Chinese traditional medicine practitioners residing in Europe, with years of clinical and teaching experience in traditional Chinese medicine and acupuncture, particularly excelling in related acupuncture and moxibustion techniques.
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