Acupuncture Theory

Treatment of Symptoms & Causes

Root – Zheng Qi (cause)

Branch – pathogenic Qi diagnosis (symptoms)

From Locations

- Root, Zang Fu - Branch, superficial body

Complicated Conditions

- Root, 1st conditions to effect patient - Branch, conditions that appear after

Acute Conditions

- treat branch 1st If someone comes with a very acute injury or pathogen but is otherwise healthy – get them into treatment quickly to relieve current symptoms, next time talk more with them to find and treat root problem(s).

*Generally speaking when treating anything, our main principle is to treat the root and branch together.

3 *The most common causes of disease: pre or post heaven deficiency, and Wood attack Earth.