The Essential Book of Traditional Chinese Medicine: Clinical Practice

by Yanchi Liu, Tingyu Fang (Translator), Laidi Chen (Translator), Kathleen Vian (With), Peter Eckman (With)

Overview

For more than four thousand years, Chinese scholars and medical practitioners have documented ways of maintaining health and treating illness, from theories of yin-yang and the zang-fu organs to the use of herbs and acupuncture. The Essential Book of Traditional Chinese Medicine marks the first time such concepts have been made accessible to Westerners in a comprehensive form.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231103572
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	12/28/1995
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	305
Product dimensions:	0.69(w) x 6.00(h) x 9.00(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Liu Yanchi is Associate Professor and head of the teaching section on the Basic Theory of Traditional Chinese Medicine at the Beijing College of Traditional Chinese Medicine. He is a member of the editing commission for the basic theory of traditional Chinese medicine, China Medical Encyclopedia, and Digest of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

Table of Contents

Traditional Chinese Medicine: An Orientation
Yin-Yang and the Five Elements
The Zang-Fu System
The Channel System
Etiology: The Cause of Disease
Pathogenesis: The Course of Disease
Methods of Examination
Diagnosis: The Differentiation of Symptom-Complexes
Glossary
Index

Editorial Reviews

[An] excellent encyclopedic handbook.

Science and Technology Reference Review

Reflects a great deal of work not only by the author...but also by a group of ten highly proficient translators and editors on both sides of the Pacific who did a wonderful job.

Journal of the American Medical Association

Now, for the first time, a complete account of traditional Chinese medicine. . . . Volume One is devoted to theory [founded on] the Five Elements of water, fire, wood, metal, and earth, which categorized all natural phenomena including the interaction of body organs. . . . Treatment is the subject of Volume Two, [which contains] a table covering all plants, animals, and minerals believed to have therapeutic activity.

Times Literary Supplement