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Acupuncture Revisited: Clinical Acuology

by I-Yen Yang M.D. with Star Yin

584 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); illustrated; catalogue #04-2109; ISBN 1-4120-4302-6; US$39.99, C$49.99, EUR32.49, £22.52

What is acupuncture? In Acupuncture Revisited Dr. Yang has skillfully toiled through Eastern and Western medicines, successfully using needles to care for patients. There's no other book like this - anywhere!

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Evidenced by the surprising outcomes of a variety of disorders as they responded to acupuncture, the innovative approach of this superb medicine has made both healthcare providers and recipients happy. This updated approach to acupuncture not only empowers practitioners to enjoy successful treatments of more difficult conditions, but also helps patients understand the background of this ancient modality of Clinical Acuology.

Camouflaged under the theory of Yin Yang and Acts of Five Elements, acupuncture emerges as a unique remedy as Dr. Yang takes you through his journal of his medical practice as it evolved from Conventional Western Medicine into an integration of Eastern and Western Medicine; telling about some of his clinical experiences and theories, and how he proved them over time with acupuncture.

This book intertwines the ancient theories with current research findings. It is filled with detailed accounts of dire patients as they came to acupuncture as a last resort - and got well, as doctor and patient worked together to reach proper diagnoses and treatments.

As you read this book, we hope you enjoy the journey into the past as well as the insight into the lives changed through acupuncture - and if you are so inclined, to learn the techniques.

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About the Author

Dr. I-Yen Yang was born in Tokyo and was raised with acupuncture (administered by his mother) in Taiwan, where he also received his Western Medical Doctorate degree. He did his internship in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and his residency in internal medicine in Detroit, Michigan, hospitals. At the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, he received his fellowship in sub-specialties of internal medicine: hematology, medical oncology, allergy and immunology. He is board certified in all areas.

He studied acupuncture in China, Japan and Taiwan, and came to Richland, Washington, in 1973 to practice Western medicine. By popular demand, he soon began integrating acupuncture into his practice, and he has been considered a pioneer because of the timing of the emerging practice of acupuncture in this country in the early seventies. He says that more people have been healed by his acupuncture than by all the other specialties and sub-specialties combined. His desire is to bring healing, health and wholeness to his patients, by restoring the flow of the vital life energy within - by freeing the Qi.

Dr. Yang's vast training, his love of medicine and people, plus his experience, wisdom, compassion and humor, make the treatments very beneficial, and bear out his theories over the years. He is currently practicing at The Acupoint in Richland, Washington. He and his wife Bi Fang have two children.

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ACUPUNCTURE REVISITED
CLINICAL ACUOLOGY

What do hematology and acuology have in common? They are both forerunners of medicine. This is because, through needles, the hematologist has easy access to the blood cells and its contents. Likewise, through needles, the acupuncturist gains access to the vital life energy, Qi ("chee"), and its attributes. While hematology tells the status of a person's health by searching through the skin to the marrow, acuology exerts the balancing effects through eight Greeting Acupoints of the same structures. Hematology and acuology are beautifully united when science explains the living phenomena at the molecular level.

Traditionally, acupuncture is based on ancient Chinese theories of the flow of Qi through pathways or meridians we call acuflows. These acuflows transport the Qi throughout the body, similarly, but not identically, to the nervous and circulatory systems.

Disease is considered to arise because of an imbalance of Qi; excess or deficient. The balance of Qi, in turn, depends upon the fluctuating transformation of the symbiotic opposing energies of Yin (negative) and Yang (positive). Acupuncture regulates the flow of Qi through the acuflows by dispersing areas that are excess, and tonifying areas that are deficient.

The analogy of the Ballpark of Qi simulates the synergic effects of two teams of Yin and Yang playing on the ball field, our body. What happens between the teams at the molecular level is as follows: Just as we communicate via language, so do the cells of our body. Basic science has revealed that there are five classes of cellular languages: neurotransmitter, hormone, growth factor, eicosanoid, and pheromone. At the time of acupuncture, a peptide called POMC, issues from the hypothalamus, modulating these five mediators. Together, they restore health while the needles are at work.

This book is a medical anecdotal autobiography where Dr. Yang integrates and discusses Traditional Chinese Medicine and Conventional Western Medicine, using actual case histories for better understanding to the reader - hence CLINICAL ACUOLOGY.

Preface

For the past century, because of powerful western influence, the Chinese bowed down to everything western, including the prevailing practice of orthodox allopathic medicine. The force of western medicine was so strong, as evidenced by our family tradition; we three boys became medical doctors.

But my curiosity and admiration never ceased for the ancient claim that acupuncture could be the alternative that kept the Chinese people going. Since then, my childhood nostalgia of the freelancing healing arts gradually came back. I grew up in an interesting environ: I watched my mother perform moxibustion for her own medical problems (burning various herbs on the skin in order to regulate the physiological activity of the body), while my father practiced the art of western medicine, taking care of patients.

The research of this well-kept secret finally turned into this book. While heavy-handed western medicine weighs the risks against the benefits, acupuncture on the contrary - an exception to the general rule - carries very little risk in my practice: mainly overwhelming benefit. Even the fear of needles in some patients soon is overcome by the success of treatments. And skeptics have become advocates.

It has been a rewarding journey for the patients and me. During the long course of experiments, we not only proved that acupuncture mended aches and pains, but we experienced the power of stress and deemed stress a major factor to redeem. Sufferers of chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia experienced all-at-once recovery, discovering that sleep is the beginning of cure. I still amaze myself every time I help people quit smoking with a single acupuncture treatment.

Acupuncturables (Part Four)
by Star Yin

Also, in the three-plus years working as Dr. Yang's receptionist, it was a joy to have come to know many of the patients, and to see the 'miracles' - problems that I didn't know were acupuncturable. I knew acupuncture was good for pain and anesthesia, but I was surprised at the many other conditions it cured.

I had the notion that once the nerves were pinched for many years, that they were 'dead', or if numbness or tingling occurred, the nerves would recover an inch a month, or something like that. But I saw many patients' nerves come back to 'life' quickly, and some immediately.

Stroke victims were the most amazing to me; especially the patient in Chapter 5 of this book.

Depression cases were increased after the 9/11 (2001) terrorist attacks; there were a few with suicidal tendencies, and to see them restored in a very few treatments was amazing. Quite a dramatic case is in Chapter 25.

Others were helped over time: a fearful man - anxious, with panic attacks, irregular heart beats and angina - came frequently, and then seldom, with a smile and a spring in his step; and the man who was turned from a fiery, explosive 'bear', to a rather pleasant, appreciative person.

Then there was the snappy, cranky lady in her 70's who was changed to a sweetheart as the shingles on her face gradually melted away.

I remember the enthusiastic testimony from a couple with their two- and three-pack-a-day habits for 20 years, that were smoke-free after Dr. Yang gave them an ear-acupuncture treatment 15 years before; referring many smokers since ... then for me to witness many patients after their treatment: total tranquility.

The most fun I had with patients were the ladies who came in with walkers - the elderly one with sciatica, who was told she would never walk again; the other with vitamin B12 deficiency - both kept a good attitude (up front, anyway), and had a wacky sense of humor through their many treatments; and to watch them eventually walk out of the office virtually unassisted.

I'll never forget the day I heard a few loud 'war whoops' come from a lady in a treatment room. I had heard a yelp or two over the years, but this sounded like Dr. Yang must have inserted an ice pick. When the patient emerged to the desk, she was almost dancing with joy as she told me that after the treatment, she could stand on her tiptoes for the first time in years - it was a victory shout I heard.

Patients, male and female, young and old, love Dr. Yang. I would hear remarks like: "He's so gentle ... so caring ... so kind .... " I saw grown men tear up as they shared with me how the doctor was an answer to their prayers, or how he gave them hope and a future as they could return to their jobs. A few gave him hugs as they thanked him. Following, are more examples of the wonders of the human spirit/mind/body restoration as the needles are inserted into appropriate acupoints; Dr. Yang applying his vast knowledge, understanding, wisdom, experience (and humor). God bless you, Dr. Yang!

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