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Articles by Francois Beyens

• What about Energetic Acupuncture?
  The concept of Energetic Acupuncture is quite loose, and depends often on the knwoledge and natural intellectual tendencies of the person who uses it. I give here one of many examples in which I have to produce an answer without betraying my personal beliefs.
  Published 30Mar2010, viewed 375 times

• Acupuncture and Olympic Games
  In sporting events like the Olympic Games, acupuncture has a role to play before, during and after the performances of the athletes. This role is often neglected which is a pity because for quite a few of finely tuned contenders it could improve their preparation, their perfomance and their recuperation.
  Published 17Feb2010, viewed 149 times

• The manipulation of the acupuncture needle: is it necessary?
  One of the topics on which the acupuncture teachers insist is the manipulation of the needle after it has been inserted in the point. The techniques can be compicated, even not very practical. But are these gestures really essential when very few practritioners apply them and still obtain good results?
  Published 14Feb2010, viewed 154 times

• The Nine Needles of Acupuncture: Really for Modern Times?
  In the curriculum of an acupuncture course there is nearly always a chapter on the Nine Needles, supposedly the tools of an acupuncturist. Actually they are remnants of the past but the instructors feel often obliged to spend time on talking or writing about them. Historically speakig it is useful information, but will certainly not be of any help to a practitioner of the 21st century.
  Published 10Feb2010, viewed 214 times

• What about acupuncture needles?
  What are these needles used for acupuncture? What are they made off? Has there been an evolution from the beginning? This article just wants to tiltillate your curiosity and at the same time give you a few insights in the surprisingly complex world of the Chinese acupuncture needle.
  Published 15Feb2010, viewed 1010 times

• The intellectual tools for acupuncture
  There are several ways for getting information about acupuncture, whether out of curiosity or to learn the technique. Each of them have their advantages and their drawbacks, and they all need careful thinking, analyzing and evaluating because of the particular historical, social and cultural environnment in which the technique was created.
  Published 06Jan2010, viewed 177 times

• How to teach acupuncture
  Because of the lack of control in the world of acupuncture, many kinds of teaching can be found, from transmitting, adapting, inventing to modernizing, from huge courses to more eclectic ones, from philosophical to pragamtic attitudes, sometimes forgetting the ultimate aim which is to treat a patient in the most possible efficien way.Distant teaching through online courses is the last kind of acupuncture courses, but it still needs improvement.
  Published 17Dec2009, viewed 192 times

• Acupuncture training in the last 40 years
  A few insights in the evolution of acupuncture teaching since it hit the news in the beginning of the seventies
  Published 17Dec2009, viewed 269 times

• What to Think about the Acupuncture Channels?
  What to do with the chinese concept of meridians (or channels)? Should we consider them as a sphigment of ancient healers imagination, and therefore cross them out as completely unscientific? Or try to relate them to something happening physiologically in the body? This means not only understanding the concept, but also analyzing it in order to find what can be recuperated and build a bridge between two very different views of the same organism.
  Published 22Dec2009, viewed 323 times

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