Equine Acupuncture Training- Articles

Consider first  an animal with a two toed hoof such as cow or goat. Where do we put the ting points.? The hoof is balanced inside and outside not front and back.(lateral and medial) In 1974 when the present commonly used format for ting points was adopted by the IVAS there was very little knowledge of acupuncture on the West and no understanding whatsoever of Yin/Yang. It was a vague theory then and for most veterinarians even now remains a vague theory. Something Oriental and not scientific. The Transpositional System. They worked out their naming of the Ting points by assuming ( and this  is a big assumption) a transposition could occur between humans and animals  especially horses. They used comparative anatomy, which indicates that the one digit of the horse corresponds to the third or middle digit on the human.. So the Triple heater point is in the middle front and others around it. This will work in practice on horses because of the power of the ting po