Clinical Wonders of Acupuncture-Moxibustion

Clinical Wonders of Acupuncture-Moxibustion
Compiled by Zheng Qiwei and Qian Chunyi
Translated by Du Wei, Hong Tao, Hu Ronghui, Huang Hui, Lu Xiaozhen, Wang Fang, Wang Yue, and Zhang Yongmei
Published by Foreign Languages Press, Beijing, 2002
Paperback, 547 pages
ISBN 7119029827 more info

This is a specialized treatise on acupuncture and moxibustion for clinical use, collecting the therapeutic techniques used in these methods of treatment for 130 kinds of common and intractable diseases in the fields of internal medicine, surgery, gynecology, pediatrics, ENT and dermatology. For each disease, the etiology and pathogenesis, major clinical manifestations, routine methods of syndrome differentiation and acupoint prescription are elaborated respectively in three parts, i.e., “Introduction,” “Clinical Experience” and “Remarks.” However, the book concentrates on examples of simple, practical, and markedly effective clinical experience (about 2,000 instances). at the same time, the precautions that need to be taken during treatment are also pointed out. Appended are the “Index of Extra Acupoints” and the “Index of Chinese Materia Medica,” for reade's reference.

Integrating Chinese and Western Medicine -A Handbook for Practitioners

Integrating Chinese and Western Medicine -A Handbook for Practitioners
English edition
by Zhang Junwen, Bai Yongquan, Chen Longshun
Foreign Language Press, Beijing, 1993
Hardcover, 187 x 258mm, 152 pages
ISBN 719014927 more info

The combined therapy described in this book is based on the scientific approaches and modern knowledge of Western medicine in examination, diagnosis and treatment and the scientifically proved traditional Chinese medical wholist concept of viewing the various parts of human body as an organic whole and the therapies such as herbs, acupuncture, cupping, point-injection, etc.

The management of the thirty-nine diseases described in the fourteen chapters of the book is the creative and effective results of the authors' clinical research and practice, covering a wide range of diseases of different systems of the human body with unique therapies that surpass those either Western or traditional Chinese medicine and can satisfactorily cure certain illnesses which cannot be cured by one or the other medicine alone. The combined therapies described in the book are so widely practiced in hospitals that they have become a new medicine based on both western medicine and traditional Chinese medicine. In short, the book is suitable for all clinicians who wish to improve themselves with the knowledge of the combined medicine.

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