This comprehensive handbook covers the complete guide for TCM facial rejuvenation including: * Individual channel and point's special functin and applicatin for facial rejuvenation * Individual herbal/ferbal formula's function and application for facial rejuvenation * In-depth comprehensive pattern diagnosis for: wrinkles, sagging of the face, facial discolorations, dark/age spots, eye bags an... Read More...

This new edition explores and describes techniques of cupping in the context of TCM theory. It provides a clear and detailed set of practical guidelines to applying this technique for various common conditions, and looks closely at issues of safety, expectation and theoretical principles of action. Also includes new scientific research on cupping therapy and the effect on the immune system as well ... Read More...

Features: A practical handbook for the diagnosis and treatment of cosmetic and skin problems according to Traditional Chinese Medicine. This book presents the TCM theory that provides the rationale behind the choice of treatment and offers step-by-step instruction on how to treat cosmetic and skin problems through the use of acupuncture. The needling techniques for face lifting, cellulites and m... Read More...

This book has been designed by a practicing osteopath and acupuncturist specializing in musculoskeletal disorders to be used as a practical reference for clinical use. The first section covers TCM physiology, pathology and etiology of musculoskeletal disorders and gives treatment priorities and TCM treatments and point selections. The second section is a survey of the tissues and their specific dis... Read More...

Providing a clear understanding of infertility, this practical resource analyses and describes the diagnoses and treatment of infertility - both male and female - with Chinese medicine. It includes Western medical information with explanations of physiology, reproductive biology, and modern infertility treatments to expand the understanding of patient options. Content discusses all aspects of achie... Read More...

For over 5000 years, cupping has been used across the globe to treat a broad spectrum of health disorders. A safe, comfortable therapy, it requires only simple, inexpensive instruments to achieve highly effective results. This comprehensive guide features all the information practitioners need, including historical facts, step-by-step instructions for application, and treatment of specific health p... Read More...

The new edition of this popular clinical text describes the application of traditional Chinese medical theory to the diagnosis and treatment of up to 48 diseases, conditions and disorders. In addition to the existing 34 covered in the first edition, 14 new conditions and symptoms have been added, and these include common, chronic and acute conditions which clinicians may see in their practice. Each... Read More...

Together with taking the pulse, observing the tongue forms an integral part of the "examination" which is needed to make a Chinese medical diagnosis. This Color Atlas is concise and to the point. The first half explains individual tongue characteristics and the second half combines these characteristics in real case studies, thus deepening the reader's understanding of tongue diagnosis. The clea... Read More...

This book provides clear instructions on tongue examination, its relationship to the internal organs and the eight principles. Detailed discussion also covers tongue spirit, body colour, shape and coating plus some case histories. 40 colour plates. Examination of the tongue, like the pulse, is one of the principal diagnostic methods in traditional Chinese medicine. This book--newly revised in 19... Read More...

ACUPUNCTURE: AN AID TO DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS gives a comprehensive conventional and acupuncture differential diagnosis, referenced by presenting condition and by acupuncture diagnosis. Presented in an accessible format, spiral bound and with a horizontal cut on each page, it gives the practitioner and student access to a handy and portable memory aid to differential diagnosis. Each page is cu... Read More...

This major, new book is a complete, easily accessed and highly illustrated guide to diagnosis in Chinese Medicine. Emphasis is placed on "real world" issues and symptoms, and the text focuses on clear interpretations of signs and symptoms - the practice beyond the theory. Since Chinese medicine diagnosis relies on a subjective appraisal of the patient's symptoms and signs - which form a pattern - m... Read More...

This book includes: * A complete history of the use of moxibustion in China from the Han dynasty (200 BCE) through modern times. * Practical protocols using many types and styles of moxibustion based on the writings of Yang Jizhou (The Great Compendium of Acupuncture-Moxibustion), Zhang Jiebin (Illustrated Supplement to the Categorized Classic), and Li Shizhen (The Great Pharmacopeia) ... Read More...

Attractive hand painted 24in X36in print of the male human body depicting front, back, and side views. This handsome full colour chart includes the 14 main meridians and points of Traditional Chinese Medicine and over 110 anatomical landmarks and muscle references commonly used when describing acupoint locations. Whether you are student, practitioner, patient, or acupuncture enthusiast, you will be... Read More...

This book is a pocket-sized translation of the Nan Jing. Written in the late Han Dynasty, the Nan Jing is one of the four foundation classics of Chinese medicine. Its full title in Chinese is the Huang Di Ba Shi Yi Nan Jing (The Yellow Emperors Eight-one Difficulties Classic). It is called the Eight-one Difficulties because it consists of 81 chapters, each chapter discussing a difficult, unresolved... Read More...

The text introduces Dr. Manaka's major clinical and theoretical accomplishments by describing how the ``X-signal system" is the foundation of human topology, function, and response. In essence, the X-signal system defines qi, yin-yang, and the five phases as clinical events, rather than as abstract theories. Just as traditional Oriental thinkers learned and recognized these ideas through right-brai... Read More...

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In this book, Bob Flaws, a world-renowned Western teacher and practitioner of TCM, explains why Western students and practitioners often have difficulty reading the pulse. He then reveals the secret of mastering the subtle art of Chinese pulse diagnosis, offering a way for anyone who applies this method in clinical practice to feel all 27 or 28 classical pulses. ... Read More...

The author has composed a pocket-sized manual that covers the essential points of Japanese pulse diagnosis based on the 69th and 75th chapters of the Nan Jing. He describes the pulse qi and the five phase points, pulse position and basic pulses in diagnosis, diagnosis and the mother-child law, syndromes of the hollow and solid organs, when to use the eight meeting points, point groups and their use... Read More...

The second volume of the Acupuncture Desk Reference provides a unique collection of quick reference guide charts for Master Tung acupuncture techniques, Pain Management and formulas for Pain Management, Shen Disturbance, Women's Health, Qi Gong, Exercises for Health. Also in this volume provides reference to Chinese Herbs, Tongue & Pusle, Western Medicine. VOLUME ONE.... Read More...

A substantial addition to the rapidly expanding literature on the practice of Chinese Medicine. This book is devoted to the traditional groupings of TCM diseases, each differentiated into syndromes and allocated to one of the zangfu. Each chapter explores a traditional disease category with discussion of the aetiology and pathology, general treatment approach, clinical features of each disease and ... Read More...

The third volume of the Clinical Handbook series examines disorders of the qi, blood, fluids and channels, that is to say the matrix that forms the communication network between the organ systems and their associated tissues. Included within each chapter are concise analyses of various patterns, their etiology, differentiation and diagnosis, suggested treatments including time tested herbal prescri... Read More...

An understanding of womens health is essential to modern Chinese medical practice, yet it has rarely been studied from the classics. In this unique book Elisabeth Rochat draws on a range of Chinese texts both well-known and more obscure. Beginning with the balance of blood and qi she moves on to examine the different roles played by the zang fu and extraordinary meridians in creating and maintainin... Read More...

Chapters include an introduction diagnosis methods and differentiation of syndromes. In this book, elementary knowledge about diagnostics of TCM is introduced; four kinds of diagnostic examination, eight principal syndromes, and differentiation of symptoms and signs according to various theoretical systems are discussed in a pithy style. To make them easy to understand, selected Medical Reports ... Read More...

Updated with a two-color redesign, this popular text now includes more research, case studies and study questions for each chapter, formulas in list format with pinyin first, as well as the authors more than 20 years experience specializing in Chinese medical gynecology. If you want to understand how to diagnose and treat womens complaints in Chinese medicine, this book is an absolute necessity. Fi... Read More...

Behind the acupuncture, herbal remedies and sophisticated diagnostics of Chinese medicine lies a ?congenial system of healing that embodies unification of body and mind, spirit and matter, nature and man, philosophy and reality.? In this comprehensive and ground-breaking presentation, based on long experience as physician, psychiatrist, and practitioner of Chinese medicine, Leon Hammer offers a new... Read More...

This new book by Elisabeth Rochat de la Valle presents the various transformations which occur within the mother and developing baby during pregnancy. Beginning with Suwen chapter 1, which describes the unfolding of female fertility, Elisabeth then looks at descriptions of the pulses during pregnancy. A month-by-month description of pregnancy is given drawing specifically on the Zhubing Yuanhou ... Read More...

This book explains in full how the emotional, mental and physical elements of Chinese Medicine in illness are an extremely effective therapy in dealing with cases where the alterations of the shen are both obvious and subtle. This book focusses on the psycho-spiritual aspects of patients' conditions and is purposely constructed to facilitate practitioners formulations of diagnosis and treatment.... Read More...

"This work explicates how to achieve the core value system at the heart of Nourishing Destiny in clinical practice. All treatment paradigms are fully elaborated to allow immediate integration into the clinic. I cover in detail the points on the 12 main channels cross referencing every character in every main and alternate point name to Weiger's etymological text and to Mathews' Chinese-English dict... Read More...

For students and practitioners of Chinese medicine, one of the more difficult diagnostic methods to learn and master is pulse diagnosis. Successful transmission of this knowledge and skill requires the description of what is felt through palpation -- something that often evades the comprehension of most beginning students, if these descriptions are not portrayed effectively. The Pocket Atlas of ... Read More...

The Psyche in Chinese Medicine comprehensively discusses the treatment of mental-emotional disorders with both acupuncture and herbal medicine. Suitable for practitioners and students of Chinese medicine it discusses first the aetiology, pathology and diagnosis of mental disorders. It explores the nature of the Mind (Shen), Ethereal Soul (Hun), Corporeal Soul (Po), Intellect (Yi) and Will-Power (Zh... Read More...