The Active Points Test is a clinical instrument for identifying and selecting the points on the body that are most effective for treatment.<BR><BR>Dr Stefano Marcelli sets out the theory of the approach and offers detailed guidance on how to carry out the test and how to interpret the results, as well as explaining how the test can be used in acupuncture and related therapies. The Active Points Test is based on the discovery that a patient experiencing an ongoing symptom can be made aware of the capacity of a few points on the skin to treat his or her discomfort. This substantially updated edition contains the most recent evidence in support of the test and many new explanatory diagrams and photographs.<BR><BR>'Using a speculative methodology, the work analyses in depth and interprets a thousand-year-old science whose archetypes and assumptions have eluded us since time immemorial.'-- Carlo Di Stanislao<BR><BR>'The diagnostic-therapeutic method devised by Dr Marcelli and called the Active Points Test is characteristic of all empirical discoveries: it is simple, easy to use and effective.'-- Umberto Mazzanti<BR>'[The Test] will help those who are a little too eager and assume that twenty acupoints might be useful when they can use only five, and it will help the less able or decisive, who really do not know which path to follow Its true value lies in its simplicity.'-- Stefano Crispini