Acupuncture Books by Southwest Acupuncture College Faculty
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Bind Each Other's Wounds
Price:$24.95 + $5.00 shipping and handling
ISBN-10: 1603831355
ISBN-13: 978-1603831352
Paperback: 192 pages
Holy Fire Publishing (December 9, 2008)
All healthcare providers have the sacred responsibility to care for and nourish life in all its manifestations. In these ten short chapters the principles of medical ethics are illustrated through discussions on the nature of illness, the role of the doctor/practitioner in the healing process, the importance of the clinical encounter in the interview and delivering the diagnosis and prognosis, and the value of touch and prayer in healthcare. Bind Each Other’s Wounds is a poetic reflection on the holiness of human life and how it can be respected and safeguarded through the spiritual practice of clinical medicine.
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Advanced Techniques in Oriental Medicine
Price $59.95
ISBN: 1588904938 / 9781588904935 (the Americas)
ISBN: 3131430516 / 978-3-13-143051-9 (Rest of World)
171 pages, Hardcover
Published by Thieme International Publishing Group
This uncommonly useful guidebook presents an overview of all aspects of needling, from the parameters of the needle itself to the importance of treating and anchoring the patient’s spirit. Skya Abbate’s clear language and detailed descriptions guide you step-by-step through thirteen categories of disease, ranging from anxiety, geriatric and chronic degenerative diseases to those illnesses thought to be untreatable.
Specialized chapters offer insight and guidance for practitioners seeking to enhance their treatment strategies with additional therapeutic techniques, including moxibustion, bleeding techniques, herbal liniments, infrared light, threading, and others. Rounding out the text is a practical appendix with a glossary of Chinese medical terminology, sample instructions for patients, as well as an index with more than 2,000 disorders.
Skillfully weaving the time-honored principles of Oriental medicine into the cuttingedge reality of the clinic, Advanced Techniques in Oriental Medicine offers a wealth of simple, yet effective, treatment strategies.
Skya Abbate is a licensed Doctor of Oriental Medicine in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she has a private practice integrating classical Chinese treatment with her sub-specialty in Japanese acupuncture. She is also the Executive Director of Southwest Acupuncture College, New Mexico and Colorado, former President of the New Mexico Association of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine and has served for over six years as an educational expert and Commissioner for the Accreditation Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (ACAOM).
Chinese Auricular Acupuncture
Price $83.95
ISBN: 0849320526
240 pages, Hardcover
Published by CRC Press
In classical Chinese medicine, the ear is considered an extraordinarily powerful nexus of energy through which the entire body can be treated. Based on the framework of traditional Oriental energetics, this unique guide provides students and practitioners with a modern, comprehensive, user-friendly manual on ear acupuncture.
Chinese Auricular Acupuncture presents high quality photos to illustrate common ear pathology, features instruction on diagnosis, and provides detailed discussion of how to construct prescriptions tailored to the patient rather than the disease process. This book simplifies the art of auricular acupuncture by relying solely on the traditional Chinese ear map rather than a set of complex charts and systems. The text explains the practical utilization of auricular therapy in a clinically useful manner.
The Art of Palpatory Diagnosis in Oriental Medicine
Price: $83.95
ISBN# 0-443-07058-X
323 pages, Hardcover
Published by Churchill Livingstone
This book provides a step-by-step introduction and practical guide to palpatation as a method of assessment, diagnosis and treatment within the context of Oriental medicine, and in particular Japanese acupuncture practice. Leading the reader through the “how” and “what” of touch, around the abdomen (or “hara”) and other areas of the body, the author explores key acupuncture points for clearing these areas as well as applied Japanese needle techniques.
The book supports the reader in developing a more vivid and sensitive feel for what lies below acupuncture meridians and points, and in being able to assess and treat successfully a very wide variety of clinical conditions.
Palpazione Diagnostica in Medicina Orientale
This is the italian language version of The Art of Palpatory Diagnosis in Oriental Medicine.
Holding the Tiger’s Tail: An Acupuncture Techniques
Manual in the Treatment of Disease
Price: $59.95
ISBN# 0-9628620-1-0
237 pages, Hardcover
Published by Southwest Acupuncture College Press
A beginners to mid-level text intended to provide students and practitioners with clinically effective treatment strategies and needle techniques.
Contains:
Part I (Chapters 1 through 14): General Treatment Approaches
Part II (Chapters 15 through 19): The Treatment of Disease with Specific Protocols
Appendix Includes: Translations of the Point Names, Subject Index, Disease Index, Point Index, Glossary, Bibliography, and Biographical Notes.
“Reflects an increasing adaptation of acupuncture to western clinical conditions, contributing to a process that will eventually lead to the birth of a cosmopolitan and truly international medicine. Will appeal to all practitioners of acupuncture no matter what style they practice.”— Giovanni Maciocia
Beijing: The New Forbidden City
Price: $17.45
ISBN# 0-9628620-0-2
212 pages, Paperback
Published by Southwest Acupuncture College Press
“Many students have gone to heaven. The hearts of the Chinese people are filled with tears.” So describes the head translator of the group of students that Skya Abbate lead to China in the Summer of 1988 when she was a student in Beijing for thirteen days leading up to and following the Tiananmen massacre. Her story of the bloodbath that ensued centers on her personal experiences, the grief and horror she felt in the face of brutal death and the helplessness of a people imprisoned by a government purportedly devoted to them.
Decisively more poetic, conclusively more passionate that the journalistic accounts of the tragedy of Tiananmen Square, which centered around political analyses, this personal odyssey simultaneously steeps us in Chinese culture as it plunge us into the depths of the human experience. A vivid, spellbinding and hopeful note that makes the heart cry.
“The blend of personal insight and political concern which make for a moving account”—Diane Donovan, The Bookwatch
“A page turner”—Jane Barletta
“Expect to enjoy an astute observer and a master of language delving into an event that will undoubtedly determine the future of China for years to come.China experts have poured forth books about Tiananmen and its aftermath but none more capably than Skya.”—Bob Quick, New Mexican Pasatiempo
Skya Abbate is the dean of a small medical college in the southwest. Her academic training prior to medicine was in sociology, still a pursuit of hers today. Skya was a student in Beijing for thirteen days leading up to and following the Tiananmen massacre. Her story is not a factual account of the blood bath that occurred. Rather, she has chosen to write about her personal experiences, the grief and horror she felt in the face of brutal death, and the helplessness of a people imprisoned by a government purportedly devoted to them.