Five-Phases Acupuncture
INTRODUCTION
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Medicine is the Science and Art of
diagnosing, treating, curing and preventing disease, relieving
pain, and improving health. |
Chinese Medicine is a multi-dimensional web of interconnections at
every level of the Living Being.
Isolated systems do not exist. Isolated therapeutic action does not
exist. Any healing intervention generates a pattern of waves
spreading like those of an object contacting the surface of a
liquid.
Acupuncture is a medical system that necessitates to live in a
Three-Dimensional Spiral Time-Space. Linear thinking processes are
unable to grasp the subtlety of this Science and Art.
Students and practitioners engaged into learning and living this new
modality of thinking and being often lose contact with simple
aspects of their craft.
Chinese Medicine is a science. It does not rest on postulates.
Modern mathematical logics unfolds notions of Orders, symmetries,
combinations, permutations and transformations that demonstrate
Chinese physiology and Chinese physiopathology. Chinese Medicine is
an Art. Through the rigorous learning of techniques, styles and
experiences, the acupuncturist begins to shape his or her own style
of healing. A style that becomes a masterpiece of years of
experience and thoughts.
This work aims to present and clarify some notions that appeared
unclear to me at the time of initial learning.
It uses for foundations the acupuncture style created by JR Worsley
and taught both in Leamington Spa (England) and the Traditional
Acupuncture Institute in Columbia, Maryland. I used the term Five
Elements Style to designate it and differentiate it from other
styles such as the Five Phases Style.
From these foundations, the chapters have been revised and completed
over the years, as my understanding slowly grew. It is still at the
infancy of its creation as it slowly follows the process of folding
and unfolding, of merging and differentiating.
