Free Download PDF Acunputure An Anatomi Approach Second Edition By Houchi Dung

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Preface to Second English Edition

In 1970, I was offered a tenure track faculty position in the Department of Anatomy, University of Texas Medical School at San Antonio, and arrived in July of that year to accept that position. By October of 1972, I began to receive inquiries from medical students about learning acupuncture. The timing was not coincidental; after nearly 30 years of Cold War era tension between China and the United States, President Richard Nixon had reopened the diplomatic doors to China. Many Americans of myriad professions, physicians included, began to arrive in China, discovering new methods and practices almost completely unknown in the western world. When the travelers returned to the United States, they shared what they observed with their fellow countrymen. One astonishing technique that came back with a few physicians was acupuncture anesthesia. Patients received operations on surgical tables while totally awake. To doctors trained in the tradition of sedatives, acupuncture anesthesia appeared to be magic, sparking a quick and sudden soaring of interest in acupuncture, to which my medical students were no exception.

At the time, there were very few faculty members at the school who were ethnically Chinese. Although I was born in Taiwan and have absolutely no relationship with China in any sense, I do possess a certain degree of sophistication in relation to China’s cultural heritage (including acupuncture). I did not hesitate to share the knowledge I have of acupuncture, and thus, I ultimately became infamous throughout campus as “the acupuncturist.” So when San Antonio Express/News reporter D. Dreier was looking for someone who would know something about acupuncture, my name was suggested to him. He came to interview me and wrote a lengthy article that was published in the local newspaper on Sunday, February 27, 1972. The next morning, when I arrived at my office at the school, there were more than a dozen telephone calls awaiting me. All of the callers wanted to know if I could use acupuncture to relieve their pain. For the next few days, the phone rang off the hook with people asking the same thing. At that moment, I came to realize that acupuncture had marketing potential as a therapeutic modality for pain management, although I didn’t yet know if acupuncture would indeed be effective to stop any pain.

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