Fundamentals Chinese Medicine

Fundamentals of Chinese Medicine offers a unique and rare opportunity to understand Chinese medicine, not as it is perceived by a Western writer, but as it is perceived and taught in China. This is because Chinese descriptions of T.C.M. that confound Western expectations have not been expunged from the textual translation.
After nearly a decade in print and numerous reprintings, the newly revised edition incorporates experience from the use of the work as a didactic text and as a course book for teaching Chinese medical English to student physicians. Based on feedback from Western teachers and translators, this new, popularly priced edition features a straightforward English terminology, thousands of source Chinese characters, and hundreds of clinical definitions never before available in English. Contents include yin and yang and the five phases; qi, blood, essence, and fluids; the channels; the organs; diseases and their causes. Pattern identification and treatment of eight-parameter, organ, qi-blood, pathogen, and exogenous heat conditions are discussed in detail, as are principles and methods of treatment. Illustrative acumoxa therapy has been added for Western acupuncturists.

The revised edition includes a glossary of terms and a materia medica and formulary sufficient to practice the treatments described in the text. As such it is not only a unique, absolutely-defined and referenced text, but also a self-contained and inexpensive course of study. As a basic text produced to a multi-author, multi-publisher voluntary standard, the revised Fundamentals of Chinese Medicine is a unique key for scholars and clinicians alike.

Contents:
A Full Course in Traditional Chinese Medicine Including All the Major Systems: Yin-Yang, Five Phase, Zhang-Fu, Etc. It Includes Both Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Herbal Therapy, Several Hundred Footnotes Detailing Medical Conditions, A Glossary, And the Entire Formulary and Materia Medica Discussed in the Text.