Advanced Tung Style Acupuncture Vol 3: Nephrology, Urology & …

full title: Nephrology, Urology & Andrology
The Acupuncture of Master Tung Ching-Chang and its Application in Kidney, Urinary, and Male Genital Disorders.

This volume contains over 350 pages with over 275 prescriptions drawn from the Chinese Tung Acupuncture literature. More than 15 different sources were referenced, compiling all the nephrology, urology, and andrology prescriptions with ccompanying diagrams for each disorder/disease to facilitate application. Included are point locations, needling instructions, contraindications, clinical comments, herbal suggestions, and lifestyle modifications based on clinical experiences with Master Tung’s Acupuncture.

The main body of this text is divided into two sections. Section 1 addresses the application of Master Tung’s Acupuncture to specific disorders of the upper and lower urinary tract involving the kidneys and urinary bladder in both sexes. The text includes disorders involving not only the actual anatomical substrates but also the broader TCM organ/channel functions of the Kidney and Bladder. Section 2 is concerned with maladies unique to the male such as balanitis, phallalgia, cryptorchidism, orchitis, impotence, premature ejaculation, and erectile dysfunction. The appendix contains the Tung Style Acupuncture points used in this volume, with text pages referenced, as well as the traditional Chinese characters for those points.