Traditional Chinese medicine

Liao, Yuqun, 1953- . (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780521186728 (pbk.)
ISBN: 0521186722 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
131 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 23 cm.
Edition: [updated ed.]
Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Content descriptions

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Machine generated contents note: Approach to Traditional Chinese Medicine -- Recognition of TCM -- Philosophy of TCM -- Formation and Variation of Tradition -- Understanding TCM -- Classics of TCM -- Huang Di Nei Jing (Yellow Emperor's Canon of Medicine) -- Huang Di Ba Shi Yi Nan Jing (Yellow Emperor's Canon On Eighty-One Difficult Issues) -- Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing (The God of Agriculture's Canon of Materia Medica) -- Shang Han Za Bing Lun (Treatise on Cold Diseases and Miscellaneous Diseases) -- Compilation of Books and Development into Canon -- Basic Theory of TCM -- Theories of Yin-Yang and Wu Xing -- Viscera and their Manifestations -- Channels and Collaterals -- Etiology -- Diagnostics -- Internal and External Therapies of TCM -- Acupuncture and Moxibustion -- Prescriptions -- Internal and the External Treatments -- Knowledge of Materia Medica -- Establishment of the Theory of Materia Medica -- Important Books on Materia Medica -- Pharmacological Studies -- Drug Administration and Market -- Processing of Herbs -- Ginseng -- Stories about Famous Doctors in History -- Bian Que -- Zhang Zhongjing and Hua Tuo -- Wang Shuhe and Huang Fumi -- Sun Simiao -- Four Great Schools in the Jin and Yuan Dynasties -- Zhang Jingyue -- Ye Tianshi -- Wang Qingren -- TCM and Cultivating a Healthy Lifestyle -- Cultivating a Healthy Lifestyle by Season -- Integration of Food and Medicines -- Sports and Health -- Emotion and Disease -- Legacy of TCM and its Modern Development -- Establishing Standards for TCM -- Development and Innovation of TCM in Clinical Use -- Integration of TCM with Western Medicine and Encouraging the Modernization of TCM -- TCM Going Global.