Books on acupuncture are floodingthe bookstores these days, there is an ever-greater trend to books being based either on ´even more ancient´or ´´new and newest´Chinese sources, or just plain translations thereof. it seems that nobody cars to take into consideration the fact we physicians in the occident, in Europeo or in Americ, are dealing with occidental patients, with all their positive and negative features; that the statistical distribution of clinical pictures is different, as are way of life statistical distribution of clinical pictures is different, as are way of life and philosophy of life;