All You Need to Know About Acupuncture

Anthony Campbell is a conventionally qualified medical practitioner who was consultant physician at The Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine for over 20 years. He introduced an acupuncture service at the hospital in 1977 and it is still one of the main complementary treatments used there. He retired from the hospital in 1998 but continues to write on acupuncture and teach it to health professionals. Since 1981 over 5000 have attended these courses. He has published four books on acupuncture as well as numerous papers.

This is a practical manual for health professionals who are beginning to use modern medical acupuncture. It starts from the assumption that acupuncture works via the nervous system. Modern research has largely failed to confirm the existence of precisely localised 'acupuncture points' and these figure hardly at all in the book. Instead, the focus
is on understanding the principles that guide deciding where to place the needles and on getting the amount of stimulation right. It is based on the course that the author has taught to health professionals for over thirty years. It will be useful for students who have completed this course and will also interest those who have learnt acupuncture in another way and who wish to explore a different approach.