Application of palpation in various acupuncture schools of the United States: current status and considerations.
- Author:
Xin ZHENG
1
;
Qun-Ce ZHANG
;
Ye-Meng CHEN
;
Hui LI
;
Tian-Fang WANG
Author Information
1. College of Basic Medicine, Beijing University of CM, Beijing 100029, China.
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- MeSH:
Acupuncture;
education;
Humans;
Medicine, Chinese Traditional;
methods;
Palpation;
methods;
United States
- From:
Chinese Acupuncture & Moxibustion
2010;30(7):591-594
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Palpation is one of the major diagnostic methods in Chinese medicine. The article has summed up the current status, features and origins of various palpations in different acupuncture schools in the United States, including palpation on meridian, collaterals and acupoints in traditional Chinese acupuncture, abdominal palpation of Japanese acupuncture, pulse checking for couples in five-element acupuncture, palpation on tendon straps and muscle response testing in acupuncture physical medicine. Since great importance has always been attached on social psychological factors in all acupuncture schools of America, it is thus concluded that the interactive mechanism of diagnosis and treatment represented by palpation feedback examination is not only the manifestation of people oriented individualized treatment both physically and psychologically in America, but also a kind of inheritance and development of diagnosis and treatment in the modernization of TCM.
