Volume 4 Issue 1 - Spring 2009

by Jason D. Robertson

I was quite happy to read Tony Reid‟s excellent summary of extant English-language sources for „channel palpation‟ in the Spring 2008 issue of the Chinese Medicine Times (Volume 3 Issue 1). Mr. Reid provided an excellent survey of available information on the subject of points and channels. Since that article was written, Professor Wang Ju-yi and I have completed another text on the subject, Applied Channel Theory in Chinese Medicine, which I sincerely hope a few of you will add to your list of helpful English texts on the subject of „physiology‟ in the classical Chinese sense of the word. As Mr. Reid surveyed the 20th century, I hope to paint some broad strokes of the millennia through which the rich tradition of channel theory developed.