William A. McGarey, M. D., was born in Wellsville, Ohio, and received his M. D. degree from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine in 1947. Dr. McGarey spent three years in the Navy during World War II and then two years as flight surgeon in the Air Force during the Korean War. Folowing this, the McGareys made their home in Phoenix, Arizona, and have been in the practice of medicine there eaver since. Dr. McGarey has been Director of the Medical Research Division of the Edgar Cayce Foundatin since 1965 and has been instrumental in activating research programs designed to eveluate concepts in the Cayce readings as they pertain to physiology and therapy. He has also originated an annual medical symposium held in Scottsdale, Arizona, which is designed for the medical profession and those in allied health fields. Dr. McGarey is a member of the county and state medical societies, the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Family Physicians, the National Acupuncture Reasarch Society, the North American Academy of Manipulative Medicine, and is also on the Board of Directors of the Academy of Parapsychology and Medicine. He is a guest faculty lecturer at the Menninger Foundation in Topeka, Kansas. He has authored papers on dreams, the psychedelic drugs, a study on the use of castor oil packs in the practice of medicine reports on healing around the world, several papers on acupuncture and body energies, and has co-authored a book entitled Edgar Cayce on Healing. Because of his familiarity with the Edgar Cayce readings, Dr. McGarey has lectured and taught for the Association for Research and Enlightenment in conferences, workshops, and lecture situations throughout the United States. During the past two years, he has been lecturing and teaching in the field of acupuncture, having taken part in several symposia and workshops. Since January, 1970, Dr. McGarey has been the Director of the A.R.E. Clinic, Ltd., a medical group actively engaged in various research projects designed to explore the psychic material in the Edgar Cayce readings at a clinical and laboratory level. Contents Foreword Jess Stearn Introduction Chapter I History of Acupuncture Chapter II Science and Philosophy Chapter III The Meridians of Acupuncture Chapter IV Acupuncture Points Chapter V Acupuncture Needles and Moxibustion Chapter VI The Pulse diagnosis Chapter VII Laws of traditional acupuncture Chapter VIII Acupuncturist types Chapter IX Japanese acupuncture Chapter X The learning process Chapter XI A Western approach to therapy Chapter XII Acupuncture in American medicine Appendix Index