The Channels and Points

Abstract

In Chapter 1, I dealt briefly with the nature and names of the channels. Table 1 will remind us that there are twelve pairs ending in either upper or lower limbs, and two midline channels. We will keep to the conventional names of channels despite the fact that you may well be sceptical of the apparent association of organ-named channels and systemic functions. As we have seen, for the method described in Chapter 2, this concept does not have to be accepted but it is useful to have some knowledge of it if one ventures further into the acupuncture treatment of systemic disease (Chapter 6).