Prof Wei Jia was born in Jiangxi Province in 1933. He started studying medicine from his uncle at the age of 14, and in 1958 began work as a teacher at the Jiangxi College of TCM, a position he only recently retired from.
He has dedicated his entire career to the field of acumoxa, a path he described in his brief autobiographical essay 《我的针灸之路》("My Journey with Acumoxa") as one fraught with challenges. The first was the stress laid on Western medicine that he encountered during his first formal medical education in 1954, the second was the discouragement that he received for choosing acumoxa over internal (herbal) medicine, the third was his realization in the 60's that his clinical results in the city were worse than they had been in the countryside, and the last was the disaster that the cultural revolution wrought on higher education and the medical profession.
In spite of these, he persevered, and in addition to numerous government, professional, and honorable positions, he was the chief-editor of the national textbook 《各家针灸学说》("Theories of Different Acumoxa Schools"), created the subject “无创痛穴疗学” （"Painless Point Therapeutics"), and published 《千金针灸临床类编》("Classified Clinical Acumoxa Content from
Thousand Pieces of Gold", as well as countless academic articles.
“动穴疗效钩玄” ("On the Efficacy of Dynamic Points") and “动穴定位钩玄” ("On the Location of Dynamic Points"), the two articles that contain the ideas this blog hopes to explicate, were published quite recently in the prestigious 中医药报道 (Traditional Chinese Medicine Journal). I'm currently not sure what kind of welcome they received within the Chinese TCM community, or what impact they have had, but as I do more reading and have more opportunities to discuss the ideas with colleagues I should be better able to answer these questions and more.
