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    ACUPUNCTURE

    IMAGING
    Perceivi ng the Energy Pathways
    of the Boay
    A Guide for Practitioners and their Patients

    Mark D. Seem, Ph.D., Dipl.Ac. (NCCA)

    Healing Arts Press


    Rochester, Vermont
    Healing Arts Press
    One Park Street
    Rochester, Vermont 05767
    www.InnerTraditions.com

    Healing Arts Press is a division of Inner Traditions International

    Copyright 1990 Mark Seem, Ph.D.


    First paperback edition 2004

    All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in


    any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy-
    ing, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without
    permission in writing from the publisher.

    Note to the reader: This book is intended as an informational guide. The reme-
    dies, approaches, and techniques described herein are meant to supplement, and not
    to be a substitute for, professional medical care or treatment. They should not be used
    to treat a serious ailment without prior consultation with a qualified health caloe
    professional.

    LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA


    Seem, Mark.
    Acupuncture imaging: perceiving the energy pathways of the body:
    a guide for practitioners and their patients / Mark Seem; [text
    illustrations by William Hamilton].
    p. cm.
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    ISBN 0-89281-375-X (hardcover)
    ISBN 0-89281-187-0 (paperback)
    L Acupuncture. 2. Mind and body. I. Title.
    RM184.s364 1990
    615.8'92-dc20 90-5066
    CIP

    Text illustrations by William Hamilton

    Printed and bound in Canada at Webcom

    1098765432
    Contents

    Acknowledgments VII
    Foreword IX

    PART I - Introduction
    Chapter 1: Toward Plurality in American Acupuncture 3
    Chapter 2: A Question of Style 9

    PART II - Acupuncture Influences and Styles


    Chapter 3: French Acupuncture Influences 17
    Chapter 4: Some Japanese Styles: Palpating the
    Energetic Core 31
    Chapter 5: Organ-Functional Energetics 40
    Chapter 6: Diaphragmatic Reactivity and Stress
    Reactions: An Acupuncture-Energetic View of
    Immune Dysfunction 45

    PART III -Acupuncture Treatment Staging


    Chapter 7: Acupuncture Imaging: "Where to Begin,
    How to Proceed 57
    Chapter 8: Bodymind-Energetic Palpation 66
    Chapter 9: Clearing the Surface, Supporting the Core 79

    Appendix: Self-Study Exercises 100


    Notes 102
    Index 107
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    Acknowledgments

    I would like to thank several people for their part in the produc-
    tion of this text:
    Rosa N. Schnyer, who, when a third-year student, challenged
    me to articulate my style and to speak in my own name;
    Fay Jean Knell, a colleague who was ever-supportive of my
    efforts;
    Kiiko Matsumoto, whose teachings gave me the impetus to
    speak out for an American form of meridian acupuncture
    informed by palpation;
    Ted Kaptchuk, for his always stimulating insights into the
    history of Oriental medicine as it relates to today's possibilities in
    this country;
    June Brazil, for an excellent and patient job of word processing;
    Joe Springer, for his thoughtful and probing comments.

    VB
    Foreword

    Acupuncture Imaging, a book about Mark Seem's style of acupunc-


    ture, is more than just a record of one practitioner's idiosyncra-
    cies. In ten years of developing this style of acupuncture, Dr.
    Seem has thought deeply about and commented on many of the
    most important questions raised by American acupuncturists.
    Dr. Seem here describes his own education, which resembles
    that of many of us who began practicing more than a decade ago.
    Like so many others, Dr. Seem came to acupuncture after receiv-
    ing a Western education in the humanities rather than the med-
    ical sciences, and before most of the acupuncture and Chinese
    medical texts emanating from the People's Republic of China
    were available in the United States. He first studied the works of
    the French and Vietnamese acupuncturists, such as Soulie de
    Morant, Chamfrault, Schatz, Larre, and Nguyen Van Nghi, and
    was also influenced by Leamington acupuncture as developed by
    J. R. Worsley in England.
    By 1983, two books had revolutionized American acupunc-
    ture. Essentials of Chinese Acupuncture, published in the People's
    Republic of China, was a basic primer written in English specifi-
    cally for foreign students at the three main Chinese acupuncture
    schools in the People's Republic: the Beijing, Nanjing, and
    Shanghai Colleges of Traditional Chinese Medicine. The Web
    That Has No Weaver was an introduction to Chinese medical the-
    ory by Ted Kaptchuk, an American graduate of a Chinese medical
    school in Macau whose teaching was based on the curriculum in
    those same Chinese medical colleges.
    IX
    x Foreword

    Both of these books introduced Traditional Chinese Medicine,


    or TCM, to American practitioners. Although Traditional Chinese
    Medicine may sound like a general term covering all of Chinese
    medicine, as it has come to be understood in the West, it refers to
    a specific style of Chinese medicine developed and taught in the
    People's Republic of China over the last forty years. That TCM is
    a style of Chinese medicine rather than its totality has been amply
    demonstrated by such authors as Paul Unschuld, Ralph Crozier,
    Bruce Holbrook, Nathan Sivin, Ted Kaptchuk, and myself. Even
    though it is the dominant, orthodox style of Chinese medicine in
    China today, that fact is sometimes obscured, since contemporary
    Chinese sources make reference only to TCM.
    At the TCM colleges in China, a new style of acupuncture was
    developed and was literally called New Acupuncture in such texts
    as The Barefoot Doctor's Manual and The Treatment of 100 Diseases
    by New Acupuncture. Its methodology is based on diagnosis by dis-
    crimination of patterns of disharmony, or Bian Zheng, and the
    erection of treatment protocols mimicking the writing of an
    herbal prescription. Chinese herbal medicine primarily addresses
    itself to the Five Zang and somewhat less to the Six Fu. Therefore,
    it is no wonder that such a style of herbalized acupuncture is con-
    tent to utilize only the Twelve Regular Channels (Shi Er Zheng
    Jing) most direcdy connecting to these Organs and Bowels. To
    these are added the Ren and Du on the sagittal midline, front and
    back, which in TCM acupuncture are primarily employed on the
    basis of their point's anatomical proximity to these Organs and
    Bowels. The other fifty-seven of the seventy-one Channels and
    Collaterals described in classical Chinese acupuncture are given
    litde or no attention in TCM acupuncture texts.
    TCM acupuncture methodology as developed in China is
    predicated on thrice-weekly treatments repeated over several or

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