effective as a text book in one of today's Schools of Acupuncture. A detailed study of over 600 acupoints was made during the Sung, Kin and Yuan dynasties (960 - 1368 AD) and resulted in a further descriptive book known as "The Illustrated Manual on the Points for Acupuncture and Moxibustion" (" Tong Jen Shu Xue Zhen Jiu Tu Jing").  The term 'moxibustion' used in the title of these works refers to the stimulation
of the acupoints with burning mox (Artemisia japonica).  Also two life sized bronze figure were commissioned, which were engraved with meridians and acupoints.
With the book and the figures the therapy spread widely across China and still thrives there, and is now well known and practised in the West.

In the West acupuncture took two roads. It survived (and still does) in its pure form and it was also taken into Western Medicine. It is from the fruitful fusion of the Eastern and Western ideas that 'modern' Energy therapies, including Meridian Therapies, sprang.  In the mid 1960's Chiropractor, Dr George Goodheart began to investigate the links between apparent muscle strength, the body's organs and meridians, developing a diagnostic therapy based on muscle testing. This work continued drawing on studies by Kendall & Kendall on muscle testing. Chapman & Owen's work on neuro-vascular reflexes and research by Mann on acupuncture meridians.  This work grew into the science of Applied Kinesiology. John Thie, a colleague of Goodheart published a book, "Touch for Health" in 1974 which first brought this combination of ideas to the general public.
Also in the mid 1970's a psychiatrist, John Diamond, applied his studies of Applied Kinesiology to his work in psychotherapy, naming this new field Behavioural Kinesiology.
At this time a psychologist, Dr Roger Callahan, was becoming dissatisfied with the therapeutic models available to him to help patients solve their psychological problems.  He had studied Kinesiology with Diamond and was also investigating Eastern health practices, specifically, those that involved tapping on meridian points.  In 1980, Dr Callahan was working with a patient, Mary, who had a severe water phobia.  She had frequent headaches and terrifying nightmares, both of which were related to her fear of water. She had gone from therapist to therapist for years with no real improvement Callahan had been working with her for a year and a half with only a slight change, using conventional psychological techniques.


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