Acupuncture Points - data base
by:
Shmuel Halevi Ph.D
POBox 159 Kfar Veradim
25147 Israel
Telfax: 972-4-9973480
Email: [email protected]: www.acumedico.com19/02/99
Copyright (c) 1998. Dr. Shmuel Halevi, Israel. All rights
reserved.
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Please note: this program is only a demo of the full program.
The full program may be purchased for 20 US$ directly from the
author, or from any other authorized distributor.
The full program includes, besides this doc file, four more
files in a zipped format:
1. Acupuncture Points.pdb
2. Acupuncture Points.csv
3. Command Points.pdb
4. Command Points.csv
The *.pdb files run under JfilePro, which is necessary to
install prior to installation of these files. Jfile is an excellent
data-base program for the Palm, accessible from:
Land-J Technologies
c/o J.J. Lehett
PO Box 677461
Orlando FL 32867-7461
Via email:
[email protected]
The *.csv files are comma-separated-value regular data-base
files, which will run under almost any Windows data-base
program.
Installation:
Installation of "Acupuncture Points" and Command Points, is just
like any other .pdb for the Pilot.
Distribution:
This shareware version of "Acupuncture Points", is not free to
distribute.
Standard Disclaimers Apply:
Although care has been taken to insure a bug-free program, I
shall not be held responsible for any malfunctions as
a result of the use of this program. Still, this data-base has
been running for test under several Palm organizers
faultlessly.
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About the author
Dr. Shmuel Halevi has a clinical experience of more than 20
years in the various branches of alternative medicine. He holds a
Ph.D degree in Chinese Medicine, and practices both acupuncture and
Chinese herbal medicine in Israel.
Dr. Halevi has published numerous articles based on his vast
experience in professional magazines worldwide, and is a co-writer
in the "Acupuncture in Practice" (Case history insights from the
west - compiled by Ted Kaptchuk and Hugh PacPherson, Churchill
Livingstone 1997).
Dr. Halevi runs two clinics. One in Nahariya which is a tourist
town in the north-west coast, and the other in Kfar Veradim, about
20 km east of Nahariya, on the hilly western region of Galilee. His
patients are mostly the inhabitants of Galilee: Jews, Arabs and
Druse alike, plus occasional patients from other parts of Israel.
The diversity and heterogenic nature of his patients, has enriched
his clinical experience, and exposed him to other forms of natural
and rural ethnic therapies, all of which he takes advantage
from.
About "Acupuncture Points"
Based on many years of clinical experience of Chinese medicine,
I have come to the conclusion that an Acupuncture practitioner
could benefit tremendously from a computer program based on the
practical aspects of this field of knowledge. There is a vast
information regarding the Acupuncture points and formulae, which is
absolutely neglected in the hectic clinic life by the
practitioners, due to the natural limitations of human memory
capabilities. Thus, important potential treatment additions are not
being utilized, and many practitioners limit themselves to their
memory capacities. This fact definitely bears its consequences upon
the treatments result. This program was therefore designed to be
very practical, not expensive, not complicated and to offer
immediate assistance and information accessibility to the busy
Acupuncture practitioner.
The data-base contains 6 fields, all of them editable, in this
order:
Name (of the point, includes its Chinese Pinyin traditional
name)
Definition (such as a Mu or Shu point, meeting point, He point
and the like)
Energetics (dispels Wind, clears Liver-Fire, extinguishes Wind
and so on)
Symptoms (a comprehensive list of symptomatology attributed to
this point)
Combinations (an illustration of renowned and practical
prescriptions)
Miscellaneous (peculiar data or additional information
concerning the point)
In order to fully take advantage of this data-base, it is
recommended to study the possibilities encompassed in the Jfile
data-base program, or any other data-base program for that matter.
You may add and edit the data in this file to meet your needs and
practice to the utmost. You may perform searches of points,
symptoms, or treatment formulae in various possibilities, and thus
utilize the vast quantity of data implanted in this program, or
your own additional data, in your practice
The new version of Jfile, due in March 1999, is promised to be
even faster and with a substantially larger data storing
capabilities of fields and categories. Registered users of
"Acupuncture Points" will be entitled to receive by Email a larger
format of this file, suitable for the new version of Jfile.
About "Command Points"Command Points is another data-base
program that completes the information available in Acupuncture
Points. The orientation in this data-base is from the meridians
point of view, in contrast with the previous one, which makes the
acupuncture points themselves as its starting point
This data-base lists all the meridians of acupuncture, including
all the extra-meridians. Under each meridian you may find all its
command points. Five-elements points, Yuan-source, Shu, Mu,
Xi-cleft points and so on. You may search this data-base by the
names of the meridians, or by a certain definition. In any case it
will list for you all the possibilities of your demand.
This data-base is much lighter than the previous one, and will
help you to choose the points in the prescription in accordance
with the laws of acupuncture. As the main objective of the
Acupuncture Points data-base is to help you choose a formula, or
suitable points, in accordance with a specific disease or symptoms,
Command Points purpose is different. It will help you device your
treatment strategy, by choosing the points in accordance with the
Five-elements law, Mother-Son law, Extra-meridian peculiarity,
Yuan-Luo combinations. And more.
