This revision reflects major updating, expansion of hot topics, and coverage of trends, current areas of research interest, and controversies in veterinary acupuncture. The book begins with the history and concepts of acupuncture and continues with the anatomic and neurophysiologic basis of acupuncture, research on acupuncture, practical techniques, instrumentation, and point selection. Part two covers acupuncture in small animals, including a canine atlas, avian acupuncture, and chapters that focus on disorders grouped by body systems. Part three is devoted to acupuncture in large animals. It begins with three different equine atlases, followed by equine acupuncture treatment according to body system, and concludes with acupuncture in cattle and a porcine acupuncture atlas. Part four covers failures in veterinary acupuncture and veterinary manipulative therapies.

Presents up-to-date information on the use of acupuncture for intevertebral disk disease and musculoskeletal, neurologic, cardiovascular, respiratory, gastrointestinal, reproductive, dermatologic and immune-mediated disorders in dogs, cats, birds, horses, cattle and pigs.

Herbal medicine has been practiced for thousands of years in China where it is held in equal esteem with acupuncture and Western medicine. Recent evidence suggests that certain drugs taken in their unrefined state, and in accordance with the laws of traditional Chinese medicine, are vastly more effective than synthetic medicines used in the West. This comprehensive guide to the Chinese herbal healing arts includes history, diagnosis, a pharmacopia, and methods of preparation.

Dr. Felix Mann, President of the Medical Acupuncture Society, is one of the outstanding Western practitioners of the ancient Chinese art, which he has been using for some years in London. In this complete revision of his 1962 book -- over half of which is entirely new material -- he describes in detail for the first time how acupuncture works from a scientific point of view, explaining the neurophysiological mechanism involved as well as the basic principles and laws according to the theories of traditional Chinese medicine. Written for both the layman and the medical profession, the book illustrates its points with case histories drawn from Dr. Mann's own patients in England.

Explores the ancient system of physiological medicine in China, and the system's applications in the field of modern medicine.