Hospice and Palliative Care Acupuncture

Hospice and palliative care with TCM

A handbook for acupuncturists and healthcare practitioners on the use of acupuncture for end of life care. The book covers the major hospice and palliative care diagnoses from a Chinese medicine perspective, as well as grief and loss, and includes the roots of Chinese historical perspectives on death and dying. The acupuncturist is introduced to the working medical model of hospice care and the interdisciplinary team approach and provided with evidence-based strategies for the use the acupuncture in symptom management.

Torii Black Dipl.Ac.,L.Ac, CPHPCA is the Director of National Association of Hospice and Palliative Care Acupuncturist in the USA.