Book Review


Atlas of the extraordinary acupoints (Revised edition). Jinkai Hao. editor

Qianqian Liu, Mingming Liu

Abstract

Extraordinary Acupoints were first described 2500 years ago in the Inner Canon of Yellow Emperor. Subsequently, 187 extraordinary acupoints were recorded in Tang dynasty (600 B.C.), and 144 extraordinary acupoints described in the Qing dynasty (1874). The Atlas of the Extraordinary Acupoints was first published in 1963, and was the first book to collect all known 588 extraordinary acupoints in medical history. The collection extended to 1,007 acupoints in the first revised version published in 1974.

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