Treatment of Modern Western Medical Diseases with Chinese Medicine

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'As a Western-trained physician practicing Chinese medicine,I applaud the publication of this text and heartily recommend it to any practitioner'(Charles May, MD, DOM). By Bob Flaws & Philippe Sionneau (2005) 590pp

This is a clinical manual on the treatment of modern Western diseases with traditional Chinese medicine. However, any clinician who thinks that one can practice Chinese medicine out of a book like this as easy as one copies recipes from a cookbook is mistaken. After practicing Chinese medicine, in Bob Flaws’s case, for more than 20 years and having written translated and edited scores of similar clinical manuals in both English and French, we can tell you that this is just not possible. At least it is not possible if your goal is to practice Chinese medicine skillfully at the professional level. Books such as this are meant to and can only act as starting places for thinking about and applying the Chinese medical methodology to one’s patients’, in professional Chinese medicine, every patient is supposed to get their own individualized treatment plan. It is such individually tailored treatment plans that make Chinese medicine the safe, effective, and holistic medicine it is.

Preface:

This book is a textbook and clinical manual on the treatment of modern Western medical diseases with Chinese medicine. By modern Western medical diseases, we mean the disease categories of modern Western medicine excluding gynaecology and pediatrics. By Chinese medicine, we mean standard contemporary professional Chinese medicine as taught at the two dozen or so provincial Chinese medical colleges in the PRC. The two main therapeutic modalities used in the practice of this style of Chinese medicine are acupuncture-moxibustion and the internal administration of multi-ingredient Chinese medical formulas, and treatment plans for each disease discussed herein are given of these two main modalities.

As a textbook and clinical manual, this book is an example of a particular genre within the Chinese medical literature. In this genre, diseases are broken down into a number of discrete patterns and then treatment protocols are given for each pattern. While such a simplistic approach is not reflective of real-life clinical practice, it is a necessary step in one’s Chinese medical education. Textbooks such as this are meant as the first step in a process leading to a more mature and complete understanding of clinical reality. They are not meant as stand-alone bibles, and no such book can fulfill all a clinician’s needs. After familiarizing oneself with the information in a book such as this, the Chinese medical student or practitioner is expected to go on to read various case histories, research reports, and medical essays exemplifying and elucidating how this material is actually used. More importantly, one’s clinical mentors are meant to demonstrate and embody the real-life use of this information.

Date reviewed

12/01/2002

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