A Manual of Acupuncture 2025

Journal of Chinese Medicine Publications Ltd.

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About this app

This is the latest Android mobile app version of the foremost points textbook in the Western world - A Manual of Acupuncture by Peter Deadman, Mazin Al-Khafaji and Kevin Baker with Tom Kennedy.

We hope you will enjoy the following features, available in the app and on our website after sign-up. Please note, listed below are the full ‘Pro’ membership features (available as an in-app subscription). If you decide not to upgrade, you will have full 'Pro' access to everything during the trial period, followed by free full access to the Lung channel and samples of other material.

• Complete rebuild of our old app from the ground up (please note, if you have bought a previous version of our app, you should be able to log in to this version without paying extra. Please contact [e-mail] if you have trouble).

• Now with better syncing between app and website, more self-testing options in the app, better search function, English/German/Spanish language options and much more.

• Every channel point and extraordinary point from A Manual of Acupuncture textbook, including extensive point commentary sections.

• English and Chinese point names, point category, location, location notes, detailed illustration, needling instructions and cautions, actions, clinical application and combinations.

• Each point includes Chinese tones, printed Chinese characters and calligraphy as well as audio of the Chinese pronunciation.

• Videos and commentary for every point showing location and needling technique.

• Videos of Primary Channel pathways and important surface anatomy.

• Illustrations for all primary, luo-connecting, divergent and sinew channels, the eight extraordinary vessels and the body area illustrations.

• All the main point categories (e.g. five shu points, xi-cleft points, back-shu points) for easy revision.

• Create your own point groups which you can use to tailor study and reference.

• Self-testing module to aid learning of points and point categories as well as self-created point groups.

• All points listed anywhere in the App are live links allowing easy browsing/reference. Point images now also contain live links to other points.

• Add your own notes to any points field (e.g. location, location note, needling, actions, indications), channel pathways, and more.

• Sophisticated search function, allowing you to limit results to specific channels or fields within points (e.g. actions, indications etc.), now ranked by relevance.

• Indexes (Point Names, Combinations, Indications, General Index), Glossary, and Chinese Dynasties.

• The 12 Cutaneous Regions and Areas Reached by the Channels.

• Reference pages including: functions of the channels, about point categories, cun measurements, location and needling guidelines and much more.

• Choose whether to download video/audio files for offline use, or save space on your phone by streaming this material when needed.

• Access your material via our website at no extra cost with the same login details (Pro level only).

Ratings and reviews

truly a terrible experience with the transition from the old app to this. I don't know what was wrong with the old app to warrant a new one. it's truly a poor experience to use as a reference book now because its cumbersome to navigate efficiently, the pages take many many seconds to load, sometimes inaccurately, and it's hard to jump from point to point in a session. the picture zooming is nice. the UI looks good but can be more efficient.

new version is bad i havent been able to use this new version because it was constabtly downloading. so i kept the old version open and now that wont work either. used this app for years with no problems, now its useless. 31.10.25 still has so many bugs that ive had to unistall and install multiple times. ive resorted to using other more reliable acupuncture apps. such a shame.

there are points in the point locations that I'll look like like BL 18, back shu point of the(blank) it won't show what the back shu point is. and it happens in several of them through all the points.

What’s new

Minor bugfixes.