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192.168.6.56/handle/123456789/2119| Title: | Essentials of Western Veterinary Acupuncture |
| Authors: | Samatha Lidly Samantha lindly Lindley, S. |
| Keywords: | Veterinary Acupuncture |
| Issue Date: | 2006 |
| Publisher: | Lindley&T.M.Cummings |
| Description: | There are already a number of texts aimed at the aspiring or practising veterinary acupuncture practitioner; however these tend to take either a predominantly traditional or a prescriptive approach, or both. In other words the rationale behind the treatment and selection of points described in these texts is based on the concepts of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). This is a complex approach to both diagnosis and treatment and would have little or no meaning to the Western-trained veterinary surgeon. Some texts include formulae or prescriptions of points for given conditions: a sort of composite of the points likely to be chosen by a traditional practitioner. This satisfies neither the traditionalist (because each patient is an individual and is treated as such, as well as on how they present at any given time) nor the Western practitioner (because it means learning formulae or looking them up and does not take into account the results of examination and |
| URI: | http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/2119 |
| ISBN: | 953945375 |
| Appears in Collections: | Veterinary Medicine |
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