Practical English-Chinese Library: Basic Theory of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Practical English-Chinese Library: Basic Theory of Traditional Chinese Medicine
By Zhang Enqin, Wang Min, Shi Lanhua
Publishing House of Shanghai College of TCM, 1990
Language: English and Chinese
Paperback, 2 volumes
ISBN 7810100890, 7810101056 more info

Traditional Chinese Medicine has many characteristics both in the understanding of the human body's physiology and pathology and in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases. Its characteristics can be explained and summarized under the two aspects: 1. The concept of the organism as a whole; 2. Diagnosis and treatment based on an overall analysis of signs and symptoms.

Traditional Chinese medicine attaches great importance to the unity of the human body itself and its relationship with nature, and holds that the human body itself is an organic whole and has very close and inseparable relations with the external natural surroundings. The concept of emphasizing the unity within the body and the unified relations between the body and the outside world is known as that of an organic whole.

In clinical treatment, TCM physicians do not focus their main attention on the similarities and dissimilarities between diseases but on the differences between the syndromes they have. generally speaking, the same syndromes are treated in similar ways, while different syndromes are treated in different ways. Take clod for example, if it manifests itself in more severe chilliness, slight fever, a tongue with thin and white fur then it belongs to the exterior syndrome caused by wind and cold, and should be treated with strong sudorific drugs pungent in taste and warm in property, to dispel the wind and cold; if its manifestations are more severe fever, milder chilliness, a tongue with thin and yellow fur, then it belongs to the exterior syndrome caused by wind and heat, and should be treated with mild diaphoretics pungent in taste and cool in property, to dispel the wind and heat. This is called "treating the same diseases with different methods". Some times, different diseases have same syndromes in nature, so their treatments are basically the same. If clinical analysis and differentiation show that persistent dysentery, propapse of the rectum, uterus and others belong to the syndrome of "sinking of qi" (functional activities of the middle warmer, the middle portion of the body cavity housing the spleen and stomach), then their treating method should be the same one, lifting the qi of the middle warmer. This is called "treating different diseases with the same method."

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Practical English-Chinese Library of Traditional Chinese Medicine: Diagnostics of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Practical English-Chinese Library: Diagnostics of Traditional Chinese Medicine by Liu Jiayi, Sun Yingjie, Liu Peilu
Publishing House of Shanghai College of TCM, 1990
Paperback, English and Chinese
ISBN 7810101250 more info

Diagnosis in TCM is a general judgment about diseases and syndromes as well as state of health of the human body by collecting and analyzing clinical data on the basis of its diagnostic methods. TCM diagnostics is a discipline to study the basic theories, methods and techniques of diagnosis in TCM. With its substantial content, it is regarded as the foundation of every clinical branch of TCM. TCM diagnosis includes diagnostic methods and differentiation of syndromes. Diagnostic methods consist of interrogation, inspection, auscultation and olfaction, pulse-feeling and palpation. All these methods aim mainly at providing objective basis for differentiation of syndromes by collecting symptoms and signs from the patient. Differentiation of syndromes refers to the process in which analysis and inference are made on the basis of clinical materials acquired through various diagnostic methods to determine the type of a disease. Such modes of logical thinking as concept, inference and judgment are adopted in the differentiation of syndromes. The type of a disease is drawn from a large amount of perceptual materials. As a pathological generalization of a disease in its certain stage, syndromes in TCM reflect the law and nature of a disease, serving as a basis for TCM treatment. Therefore, they differ from symptoms.

Contents:

• Introduction - the conception of TCM diagnostics, diagnostic methods in TCM, the fundamentals of TCM diagnosis, the principles of TCM diagnosis
• Diagnostic Methods - interrogation, inspection, auscultation and olfaction, pulse taking and palpation
• Differentiation of syndromes - differentiating pathologic conditions in accordance with the eight principal syndromes, differentiation of syndromes according to the state of qi and blood, differentiation of syndromes according to pathologic changes of the viscera and their interrelations, differentiating syndromes of a febrile disease in accordance with the theory of the six channels, differentiating the development of an epidemic febrile disease by analyzing and studying conditions of the four syndromes

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