Section 1 of Volume 3 in the ‘Advanced Tung Style Acupuncture’ Series – Nephrology and Urology – is concerned with the application of Master Tung’s Acupuncture to specific disorders of the upper and lower urinary tract involving the kidneys and urinary bladder in BOTH sexes. The text includes disorders involving not only the actual anatomical substrates but also the broader TCM organ/channel functions of the Kidney and Bladder.

Section 2 of Volume 3 – ‘Andrology’ – is directed toward disorders unique to the male such as balanitis, phallalgia, cryptorchidism, orchitis, impotence, premature ejaculation, erectile dysfunction, etc.

This volume contains in excess of 350 pages with over 275 prescriptions culled from the Chinese Tung Acupuncture literature in my personal library – more than 15 different sources were referenced (several currently out of print). From these Chinese language sources, I have compiled, collated, and translated all of the Nephrology, Urology, and Andrology prescriptions proffered by the ‘experts’ and applied accompanying diagrams for each disorder/disease to facilitate their application. Included are author-specific point locations, needling instructions, contraindications and, when available, clinical comments, herbal suggestions, lifestyle modifications, etc. all derived from the author(s) own personal clinical experiences with Master Tung’s Acupuncture.

Volume 3, like its predecessors, is entitled ‘Advanced Tung Style Acupuncture’ because it implies that the user has had prior training in Master Tung’s Acupuncture (e.g., courses presented by Drs. Wei-Chieh Young, Palden Carson, Robert Chu, Esther Su, Richard Tan, Miriam Lee, Susan Johnson, etc.). PLEASE be aware that this text is NOT intended for use by the tyro, but rather as a reference for those who already have a working knowledge of Master Tung’s Acupuncture.

What this book is not:

This text is NOT an introductory text in the acupuncture of Master Tung Ching-Chang! Nor is it a primer on the TCM theories governing Nephrology, Urology, and Andrology – there are an ample number of texts on the market concerning these topics.

How this book is arranged:

The main body of the text is divided into two sections – Section 1 Nephrology & Urology and Section 2 ‘Andrology’. Section 1 addresses disorders (biomedical and TCM) specific to the Kidney and Bladder of BOTH sexes whereas Section 2 is concerned with maladies unique to the male. The appendix contains the Tung Style Acupuncture points used in this volume, with text pages referenced, as well as the traditional Chinese characters for those points. The appendix also presents the points in terms of the numbering systems promulgated by Dr. Wei-Chieh Young (i.e., Young Wei-Chieh) and Dr. Miriam Lee in their respective texts; should one so desire, one may readily convert this numeric system to that published by Dr. Carson by simply dropping the first digit.