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Number of Acupoints

Posted By: Bill
Posted Date: Aug 11, 2009 (11:27 AM)

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geo:

That actually is a very fair question - how many acucpoint are there? It piques my interest and I
did a search and found the followings:

http://www.cancer.org/docroot/ETO/content/ETO_5_3X_Acupuncture.asp?sitearea=ETO&viewmode=print&

"Originally, 365 acupoints were identified, corresponding to the number of days in a year, but gradually, the number of acupoints grew to more than 2,000."

In the summary of this clinical research article:

http://www.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/~vitaly/PDF/napadow_ctm_2004.pdf

"Of the more than 150 unique acupoints, the 30 most commonly used points represetned 68% of the toal number of acupoints needled at the first clinic, and 63% of points needled at the second clinic."

Therefore it seems although there are indeed many accupoint on the human body, but the most commonly used one may be less than 150.

Bill

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