Course Overview

After graduating at the end of 1996, I used my spare time to go back through every single page of notes that I wrote during my Chinese medicine degree (plus all my textbooks). They were filled with nifty little point combinations that I moved across into a clinic folder. With every patient that I saw, I tweaked/adjusted, then enhanced, these point combinations until I had a more thorough selection of points I could use for my patient’s ailments. As you can imagine, my folder ended up full of acupuncture point combinations, so my solution was to alphabetise these combinations on my computer. During this time, I started working at a college in Brisbane, Australia and the students suggested that I make it into a textbook. And so, the ‘Acupoint Dictionary’ was born, first as a self-published text, before the publishing company Elsevier Churchill Livingstone took it international in 2009. Almost from the first day the Acupoint Dictionary was published, the most common question I was asked was how I constructed the sacred acupuncture point combinations contained within? This led me down a path I was not expecting, and I started to write a second book; designed to teach the reader how to analyse/enhance, their own acupuncture point combinations. This was picked up by the publishing company Singing Dragon and they released it internationally in 2020. This resulted in other questions and so this workshop was born and will discuss different aspects of acupuncture point combinations.

Course Objectives

• Better understand how acupuncture point combinations work.
• Be able to apply these acupuncture point combinations in clinical practice immediately.
• Learn how to make changes to your current treatments in line with the many suggestions in the workshop.

Course Outline

0 hrs - 30 minIn part 1 (of 3) there will be a brief presenter introduction followed by an overview of the entire workshop. We will then start discussing acupuncture point combinations, specifically why it matters, plus the dynamic movement of vital substances.

30 min - 1 hrsIn part 2 (of 3) we will continue discussing how acupuncture point combinations work, looking at local/adjacent/distal points, treating the person not the disease, common acupuncture point combination methods, and how David constructs combinations.

1 hrs - 1.5 hrsIn part 3 (of 3) we continue the discussion on how David constructs combinations. This includes a section on his favourite channel & 10 best points. The workshop concludes with a summary of good/bad combinations, plus additional information on David.