Re Vet AP & its origins

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Hi Eric, & All,

 

> Phil, ... you mentioned that the veterinary acupuncture of today was

> largely a modern development. Do you know anything about its history?

 

I meant that WESTERN Vet AP is a modern development, based almost

totally on transposition of human theory and point FXS + LOCATIONS.

 

Yes, I have read and heard some articles on Vet AP history. It dates back

before Christ.

 

However, Trad Chinese Vet AP is based on isolated points, with no

documented Channels. It is very fragmentary as compared with human AP.

One needs a photographic memory to use that system. and few western

vets use it.

 

> You might be interested in an old book that I found in Taiwan, it is a

> classical text called the Niu Ma Jing (Ox and Horse Classic). It

> details acupuncture therapies for horses and cows (oxen), and it

> appears to be a very old text, but I've not yet spent the time

> thoroughly researching its origin. Anyway, I picked up the book and

> thought of you, I've only ever seen it in Taiwan in traditional script.

> Eric Brand

 

Thanks for the alert. I had missed that one.

 

There is a modern book: New Ox & Horse Classic Xin Niu Ma Jing

1956,1968

 

However, I have no hope of reading classical Chinese hard-copy. I can

handle digital Chinese, converted to simple text and worked through

Google-translate and Wenlin. But, as it takes me hours to translate one

page of text, I use Chinese sources ONLY when I cannot find needed data

in English / an EU language.

 

I have been to Taiwan circa 4 times and have a good friend there - Prof LIN

Jen-hsou, retired from Vet Faculty of NTU, Taipei. He has done great work

in the Vet AP Soc of Taiwan, and as a teacher of Vet AP. After a visit in

1985, I wrote a piece called " Taiwan " - see

homepage.eircom.net/~progers/0travel.htm

 

See also " The Taiwan Report " - my notes on AP as practised in Taiwan in

1982:

http://med-vetacupuncture.org/english/vet/taiwan1.htm

http://med-vetacupuncture.org/english/vet/taiwan2.htm

http://med-vetacupuncture.org/english/vet/taiwan3.htm

 

Best regards,