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British Academy of Western Medical Acupuncture, the first training establishment to teach Medical Acupuncture in the UK. We were established over 37 year ago and have trained many medical doctors, nurses, physiotherapist and numerous others who have held qualifications suitable for training in this category.
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To understand what Western Acupuncture is about, one needs to know a little about the more traditional therapies of Acupuncture that still exists today.
Over three thousand years ago, the Chinese were apparently treating many illnesses by first taking the patients radial pulse, as done by a GP or nurse. The difference being that, the Chinese claimed to be able to feel six pulses on each wrist, each associated with one of the twelve organs of the body.
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They were feeling for the energy factor, the strength or weakness of the pulse for the particular organ, which would perhaps indicate excess or deficient energy, causing a malfunction of an organ and thus relate directly to the external symptomology.
By using certain needle techniques they reported that it was possible to transfer an excess of energy from one organ to another which may have become deficient. This would create a ‘balanced’ energy, which would exhibit itself in the disappearance of outward symptoms, which had caused the original problem.
Western Medicine was some what critical of this philosophy and it had some cause to be so. It had been shown that varying diagnoses had been applied to the same patients having a problem. This inconsistency was unacceptable and could not be incorporated into Western diagnostic techniques.
Today, we have to acknowledge that the methods used in Western diagnosis, i.e. blood tests, X-rays, MRIs etc, are the only way we can be reasonably sure our treatment is appropriate and not attributed to guess-work, which the ancient pulse diagnosis would be seen as in this modern age.
