Following decades of study and years of requests and ardent pleas, Masakazu Ikeda wrote the Integration of Acupuncture and Herbal Therapy: Theory and Practice in order to help practitioners determine the proper treatment protocol for each. Once the herbal therapy treatment protocol is known, the acupuncture protocol is determined. If the acupuncture treatment protocol is known, the herbal therapy treatment is likewise already determined. This book brings the knowledge of a lifetime of intense study of classical acupuncture texts and classical herbal medicine texts so the theories of each can be understood and used together for the most effective treatment. This important text was translated into English just recently. Masakazu Ikeda has been practicing, studying, and teaching traditional Oriental medicine for over forty-five years. His determination to understand classical acupuncture texts has set him apart and created a demand for his lectures and books. He graduated from Meiji Oriental Medical Institute in 1968. He has spent his life devoted to the practice of acupuncture, moxibustion, and herbal medicine. As an instructor and the president of the academic department of the Society of Traditional Japanese Medicine he has become a prolific writer with 26 published books including the Handbook Series and the Simplified Commentaries on the Classics of Oriental Medicine. His book, The Practice of Japanese Acupuncture and Moxibustion: Classic Principles in Action was published in English in 2005. He is currently in private practice in Japan - from Amzon