This excellent new book is an essential guide to Running a Safe and Successful Acupuncture Clinic. Its three sections, covering safety and risk management, ethics and interpersonal skills, and professional development and clinic management, provide vital information to any acupuncturist, whether a new practitioner or one already in practice with several years' experience. Standing as an easy-to-us... Read More...

It covers everything you need to know about the business of practicing acupuncture and Chinese medicine. Used by over 25 schools within the US as a required text, the companion CD Rom that accompanies this work makes the value of the combined two outstanding. ... Read More...

This is the first book to set out a full range of research strategies for evaluating the clinical practice of acupuncture. Leading acupuncturists and researchers with international reputations share their expertise. They illustrate their descriptions with practical examples of what has worked and what has not. It outlines many of the key challenges in the field. These challenges relate to the natur... Read More...

This quick reference guide for acupuncture students and qualified practitioners provides acupuncture treatments for 1000 Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Actions, and Western signs, symptoms and disease states. Treatments are listed alphabetically, and most conditions are covered - from the most common signs and symptoms like neck pain to rarer and more chronic ones like Raynaud’s phenomenon. T... Read More...

Written and well-presented results are more readily accepted by examiners and fellow clinicians, however achieving this can be very difficult. This comprehensive text takes the fears and tears out of writing up research results. It provides a practical guide to the process of preparing a written research report, ensuring the information can be easily followed and understood. It details the sequence... Read More...

All the health care information you need in one package! Merck returns! The new 18th Edition of The Merck Manual is packed with essential information on diagnosing and treating medical disorders to help deliver the best patient care. The worlds most widely used and oldest continually published medical reference now features expanded clinical focus on each disorder, as well as more specific guidance... Read More...

Practical Dictionary of Chinese Medicine combines the features of a clinical manual with those of a dictionary. It provides a wealth of useful information beyond the definition of terms. It describes symptoms in detail and explains their clinical significance. It gives acupuncture and medicinal treatments for virtually every disease and pattern. It describes detailed indications for each ... Read More...

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The manual is composed of Part Meridians and Part Acupoints. Part Meridians: present the courses and distribution of the Fourteen Meridians of the human in detail, and diagrammatic sketch of Fourteen Meridians to help remembering and grasping. Part Acupoints: introduce concisely 361 acupoints of the Fourteen Meridians and 48 commonly used Extraordinary Acupoints, which contains: location, indicatio... Read More...

This is a clear and lively book intended for students and practitioners from a variety of healthcare backgrounds who want to gain a first foothold in understanding research. It is a highly engaging and very visually attractive introduction to research which students and practitioners will use to gain confidence and to develop as far as initiating small practice based research projects. The book wil... Read More...

10,000 outcome based research protocols are published each year in Chinese medical journals. This research describes real life clinical practice. It tells you what works and what doesn't and how long it takes to get results with Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine. Blue Poppy Press has translated a representative selection of useful research from recent issues of Chinese medical journals on a varie... Read More...

This book examines the research base of touch or massage therapy, and describes the practical application of these results in practice. Written by the Director of the world-renowned Touch Research Institutes in the USA, each chapter gives a clear and authoritative review of what is reliably known about the effects of touch in a variety of clinical conditions. Key Features * Provides a thoro... Read More...

There is a considerable and increasing interest in research related to complementary therapies, to establish a base of research results which will support practice. This book analyses the key questions often asked and the controversies debated in complementary medicine research and offers clear guidance written by experts in this field. Features * Describes and analyses general research issues... Read More...

Health professionals today must be able to justify their treatment interventions in the light of available research evidence. In areas where no such evidence exists the pressure is on to undertake the research which may provide it. Research Method for Clinical Therapists provides a straightforward, jargon-free introduction to a number of research methods. Emphasising experimental techniques, it cov... Read More...

The I Ching Handbook is the very best compendium of study aids, technical resources, and useful information on the I Ching, or Book of Changes, the best-known and most widely read text from early Chinese culture. Dr. Hacker's text provides information that formerly has been available only to those who read Chinese, or to those having experience with formal logical systems. The text descri... Read More...

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This book gives information regarding symptoms of most ailments before going on to enlighten you about both orthadox and alternative treatments. The fact that it provides various options of alternative therapies and in some cases only reccomends orthodox treatments is of great value to the reader. I have used this book since I bought it in 1987 as my first port of call when dealing with all my fami... Read More...

First published in 1900, Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary is universally acknowledged as the world's finest medical dictionary. Now in full color for the first time , the new, 30th Edition has also been thoroughly updated to reflect all of the very latest information from every frontier in health care. Over 123,000 entries cover all of the language integral to contemporary medicine-includin... Read More...

This book is now a classic text. Featuring a collection of functionally translated abstracts from recent Chinese medical journals. They are functional translations because we have not translated them word for word. Rather, we have only translated what we felt was the most important, clinically useful information for busy practitioners. Over the last decade, Blue Poppy Press has tried to publish ... Read More...

Prepared in collaboration with the Faculty of Homeopathy and the Homeopathic Trust. This dictionary provides an authoritative, up-to-date, international consensus on the definition or interpretation of concepts necessary to an understanding of the principles and practice of homeopathy. It is compiled through the help of a panel of international experts, and is written as a reference work for homeop... Read More...

This 2nd edition gives every health professional and pharmacist the broad information they need to dispense and counter-prescribe homeopathic methods with confidence. Designed as both a complete source of initial information and an everyday reference, Homeopathic Pharmacy provides detailed information on the procedures, principals, and applications that are essential in the practice of homoeopathic... Read More...

Summary: Focused on pathology needs for massage therapists, this reference in encyclopedia-like format is organized alphabetically according to diseases. It covers over 400 conditions likely encountered by massage therapists, and provides descriptions followed by Cause, Signs and Symptoms, Risk Factors and Caution and Recommendations to Therapists. Features include marginal notes providing more i... Read More...

This book is written in three languages, Chinese, English and Japanese for introducing Chinese acupuncture and moxibustion to the world. It consists of three parts. Part A introduces the techniques of acupuncture and moxibustion, the channels and collaterals, and 96 commonly used acupuncture points. Part B deals with the clinical treatment of 50 common diseases with an appendix of 15 examples of ty... Read More...

This dictionary reflects the English meanings of Chinese characters and character compounds as they have been laid down in the annotated edition of the Huang Di nei jing su wen, translated by Paul U. Unschuld and Hermann Tessenow. The Huang Di nei jing su wen is a seminal text of ancient Chinese medicine and natural philosophy. It reflects empirical knowledge and the doctrines of yin-yang and Five ... Read More...

This authoritative dictionary contains 6,000 complementary, alternative, and integrative medicine terms, designed to be a definitive resource for all key terms related to complementary and alternative medicine. Concise, user-friendly, and easy-to-understand definitions are accessible to all readers, regardless of previous knowledge of the field. This resource offers the most broad-ranging coverage ... Read More...

This comprehensive resource covers a broad array of research strategies available to massage therapists to give them the tools they need to be knowledgeable readers of research literature, as well as active researchers. The primary focus of the book is on the quantitative aspect of research that encompasses the principal types of studies most extensively used in the various health care professions,... Read More...

Modeled after the way chiropractors or chiropractic assistants interact with patients, this convenient pocket guide helps anyone working in the chiropractic office to communicate more effectively and improve the quality of care delivered to Spanish-speaking patients. Discussing everything from salutations and case histories, to specific procedures and follow-up care, this highly portable handbook i... Read More...

It is essential that health care professionals are able to read and critically evaluate published research for themselves so that they can make their own judgements on its value and relevance to clinical practice. How to Appraise Research aims to help them do that by centring on the evaluation of 8 previously published research papers. How to Appraise Research is designed to help reader question... Read More...