Karen - reviewed on 2/4/2011 + 168 more book reviews

I was in my first year acupuncture school when I picked up this book. I took it on vacation with me for some light reading (ha, ha). Anyway, while on vacation, I found myself feeling really hot and the inside of my arm ached badly. I had pain right to the bone. I didn't know what was wrong. I searched the book and found some acupuncture points to reduce the heat I was feeling: LI 11 and LI 4. What a relief. When I got home from vacation, I discovered that I had shingles on my arm (just before vacation, I had gotten a Hep-B shot in that arm). With the help of this book, I treated myself for shingles and, by the time school was back in session, all my symptoms and the rash were gone. That is within a two week period - a lot of people have residual pain for weeks, months, even years. I was lucky to have acupuncture.
So what am I saying. This book has a lot to offer. If a one year student (actually I was only a half-year student by that point) could find a cure for shingles in this book, wow this book contains a lot of knowledge. In chapter 7, Classical Needling Techniques, I found the treatment for relieving the shingle rash (and pain) on my arm: "When treating skin problems such as herpes zoster or eczema, the skin is hammered until small red dots (petechiae) begin to appear. Then the area is cupped to cause light bleeding to help remove pathogenic Heat." This treatment did the trick. What a great little book.

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