Practice of Chinese Medicine: Treatment of Diseases with Acupuncture

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Companion to Foundations of Chinese Medicine. Covers 48 diseases in great detail. Fourteen new diseases added since 1st edition. All illustrations have been revised and many new illustrations enhance and clarify the text. (2008) 1501pp

Description

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 chapter contains aetiology and pathology; differential diagnosis according to TCM; selection of treatments with acupuncture and herbs, with explanation of choices; case studies for illustration; summary of Western differential diagnosis; and discussion of prognosis and prevention.

This book again brings the enormous wealth of the author\'s experience, and his insights in applying TCM medicine to a Western context, to the support of all clinicians whatever their own range of experiences.

Contents

1. HEADACHES
2. DIZZINESS
3. BREATHLESSNESS
4. WHEEZING
5. ASTHMA
6. ALLERGIC RHINITIS
7. SINUSITIS
8. COUGH
9. THE PSYCHE IN CHINESE MEDICINE
10. THE EMOTIONS
11. AETIOLOGY OF MENTAL-EMOTIONAL PROBLEMS
12. DIAGNOSIS OF MENTAL-EMOTIONAL PROBLEMS
13. DEPRESSION
14. ANXIETY
15. INSOMNIA
16. PATTERNS IN MENTAL-EMOTIONAL PROBLEMS AND THEIR TREATMENT WITH HERBAL
MEDICINE AND ACUPUNCTURE
17. TINNITUS
18. GOITRE (THYROID PROBLEMS)
19. HYPERTENSION
20. TIREDNESS
21. CHEST PAINFUL OBSTRUCTION SYNDROME
22. EPIGASTRIC PAIN
23. NAUSEA/VOMITING
24. ACID REFLUX
25. MOUTH ULCERS
26. HYPOCHONDRIAL PAIN
27. ABDOMINAL PAIN
28. ABDOMINAL MASSES
29. DIARRHOEA
30. CONSTIPATION
31. URINARY SYNDROME
32. ENURESIS AND INCONTINENCE
33. URINARY RETENTION
34. INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS
35. BENIGN PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA
36. PROSTATITIS
37. OEDEMA
38. PAINFUL OBSTRUCTION SYNDROME
39. LOWER BACK-ACHE
40. FIBROMYALGIA
41. CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME
42. PARKINSON\'S DISEASE
43. WIND-STROKE
44. ATROPHY SYNDROME
45. MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS
46. BLEEDING
47. ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION
48. COMMON COLD AND INFLUENZA
APPENDIX 1. IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS ACCORDING TO THE SIX STAGES
APPENDIX 2. IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS ACCORDING TO THE FOUR LEVELS
APPENDIX 3. IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS ACCORDING TO THE THREE BURNERS
APPENDIX 4. LIST OF PRESCRIPTIONS
APPENDIX 5. ACUPUNCTURE POINTS FOR MENTAL-EMOTIONAL PROBLEMS
GLOSSARY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
CHINESE DYNASTIES

Date reviewed

27/11/2007

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