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Acupuncture Formulas: Top Ten Points for Common Conditions
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DISCLAIMER
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Acutherapy is not a panacea. It can work only if the correct points and procedures are used, & only if the adaptive-homeostatic mechanisms of the recipient can respond adequately. Adaptation is the key to health, happiness & life itself.

These data are given in good faith. They & related files are for use only by qualified acupuncturists. As well as beauty, health and life, imperfection, suffering & death are everyday realities in spite of our best efforts.

The Law of Change (day-night, life-death, joy-sorrow, pleasure-pain) is absolute & inflexible. Within that Law, even Masters must fail! Their loved ones (parents, children, friends), & their animals, must suffer dis-ease, & must die sometime. Death is the ultimate failure to adapt. C'est la vie ...

The author can not guarantee the success of these prescriptions, nor can he be held responsible legally, morally, or in any other way, for any consequences arising from use or misuse of these data, or data in related articles.

Introduction
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This paper relates to the author's papers (http://homepage.eircom.net/~progers/rogpubco.htm) on acupuncture (AP), especially the following, to which readers are referred:

Choice of acupoints for AP therapy http://users.med.auth.gr/~karanik/english/vet/ptpick1.htm
Choice of acupoints for particular conditions http://users.med.auth.gr/~karanik/english/vet/choice1.htm
Computers in the study & clinical use of AP http://users.med.auth.gr/~karanik/english/vet/micro1.htm
Treatment of backpain in the horse & dog by AP http://users.med.auth.gr/~karanik/english/vet/aposloh1.htm
Acupoint Names, Translations & Locations
Acupoint Locations by Code
Acupoint Locations by Pinyin Name
http://homepage.eircom.net/~progers/pt.htm
http://homepage.eircom.net/~progers/ptc.htm
http://homepage.eircom.net/~progers/ptn.htm

 

APPENDIX 1
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This briefly describes the structure of the acupoints database, basic Laws of selecting effective acupoints and how to evaluate the likelihood that points in any given "Top Ten" output may or may not be effective (see Disclaimer).

Readers should be familiar with the details in Appendix 1 before they use of the ACUPOINT FORMULAS.

APPENDIX 2
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This contains the ACUPOINT FORMULAS (see Disclaimer). It gives the "Top Ten Points" for some major body functions, organs & parts. The format of each formula has 12 columns:

Column 1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

Lesion Code, Area, problem or condition Refs/Pts
/Rating

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

010100 emergencies 39/168/.964

GV26

KI01

ST36

PC06

A_01

LI04

PC09

GV20

LU11

LI11

   

0.851

0.824

0.521

0.500

0.497

0.441

0.391

0.362

0.338

0.319

The values in the columns above are:

Column 1

2

3-7

8-12

Lesion Code, Area, problem or condition Refs/Pts
/Rating

Points 1-5

Points 6-10

The Lesion Code used in the database ("010100" in the example above), & the Area, problem or condition ("emergencies" in the example above).

Refs/Pts/Rating - the number of references (Refs), number of points (Pts) & the maximum possible score (Rating) for that condition in the database. In the example above, there were 39 references which cited points for "emergencies". Between them, they cited 168 possible points, & the rating for any point maximum score was .964 (i.e. 96.4%).

Point 1 gives GV26 as the First (best) Point (score .851, or 85.1%).

Point 10 gives LI11 as the Tenth Best Point (score .319, or 31.9%).

 

Keyword & Fast Find Page
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This allows users to view the Keyword List & select a word (organ, body part, lesion or symptom) from it, or to Fast Find a Formula using the first letter of the search word of interest to access that part of the Keyword List.

 

Copyright
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The Acupoint Formulas in Appendix 2 are published in much more detail as a PC software package (ADA - Acupuncture Data Assistant Version 1). That package is obsolete (unavailable), but the Points Database is Copyright, & the author is in discussion with another developer of TCM Software to upgrade the package to include modern graphics, client files, accounts management, & basic information on TCM.

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