Traditional Chinese Medicine: Clinical Case Studies

Traditional Chinese Medicine: Clinical Case Studies
Eedited by Professor Chen Keji, MD
Published by Foreign Languages Press and New World Press, Beijing, 1994
Hardcover, 10.25 inch x 7.25 inch, 365 pages
ISBN 711901661x more info

This collection of traditional Chinese medicine clinical case studies contains a total of 140 most outstanding cases of numerous specialists of traditional medicine and integrated traditional medicine and Western medicine practices. These cases encompass sorts of medical speciality including medicine, surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, EENT and dermatology. Each of these cases comes with a detailed case analysis, diagnoses based both on traditional and Western medicine, TCM symptom-complex differentiation as well as scientifically oriented discussions and follow-ups. Complete with case presentation, medical principles, prescription, pharmacological properties, prognosis and analysis, Traditional Chinese Medicine: Clinical Case Studies stands out amongst other contemporary clinical studies for its distinctive representation on integration of traditional and Western medicine. This collection is suitable as a source of clinical reference for Chinese and foreign scholars pursuing TCM knowledge and integration of TCM and Western medicine. In addition, it is also ideal as additional reading to both undergraduate and postgraduate students of TCM schools. Effectively combining theoretical and empirical knowledge and accompanied by well-structured case analyses, this collection could also be used as as lecture reference for both Chinese and foreign teachers dedicated to teaching TCM and integrated TCM and Western medicine. Among the tens of contributors for this collection, there are Jiang Chunhua, Kuang Anjun, Xie Zhufan, Chen Keji, Yu Jing, Xu Zhihong, and Jean Yu.

Editor Professor Chen Keji, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Vice-President of the Chinese Association of Integration of Traditional and Western Medicine.

Contents

1. Cardiovascular Diseases
   1. Prinzmetal Angina Pectoris (Sudden Heart Pain)
   2. Variant Angina of Coronary Heart Disease (Chest Bi-Syndrome)
   3. Angina Pectoris (Chest Bi-Syndrome Caused by Dyspepsy)
   4. Coronary Artery Disease (Severe Precordial Pain)
   5. Coronary Heart Disease (Chest Bi-Syndrome)
   6. Paroxysmal Atrial Tachycardia (Palpitation)
   7. Paroxysmal Atrial Tachycardia (Palpitation)
   8. Sick Sinus Syndrome (Pectoral Pain with Stuffiness)
   9. Arrhythmia (Palpitation)
   10. Aortic Regurgitation and Atrioventricular Block (Deficiency of Heart-Yang with Blood Stasis)
   11. Complete Atrioventricular Block (Sudden Prostration of Heart-Yang)
   12. Acute Myocardial Infarction (True Heart Pain)
   13. High Blood Pressure, Diverticuli (Blood Stasis)
   14. Arteriosclerosis, Hypertension and Renal Failure (Deficiencies of the Spleen and Kidney)
   15. Intractable Heart Failure (Anasarca)
   16. Congestive Heart Failure (Palpitation and Dyspnea)
   17. Viral Myocarditis (Palpitation of Hyperactivity of Fire due to Yin Deficiency)
   18. Cardiac Neurosis (Palpitation Secondary to Kidney-Yang Insufficiency and Flaring Heart-Fire)
2. Respiratory Diseases
   1. Recurrent Cold and Cough (Damp-Heat Disease)
   2. Acute Bronchitis (Impairment of the Lung and Yin due to Wind-Heart)
   3. Chronic Sinusitis and Bronchial Asthma (Cold-Dampness in the Lung)
   4. Radioactive Pneumonia (Cough)
   5. Acute Exacerbation of Cor Pulmonale (Gasping Cough)
   6. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (Accumulation of Phlegm and Heat in the Lung, Deficiency of both Qi and Yin)
   7. Lung Cancer (Feiji, Cough)
   8. Lung Cancer (Feiji)
3. Digestive Diseases
   1. Hiccup (Adverse Rising of the Stomach)
   2. Constipation Secondary to Acute Myocardial Infarction (Constipation as a Manifestation of Various Sympton-Complexes)
   3. Stubborn Constipation (Stubborn Constipation)
   4. Chronic Gastritis (Epigastralgia)
   5. Gastric ulcer, Chronic Atrophic Superficial Gastritis (Stomachache, Liver Depression and Stomach-Heat)
   6. Duodenal Bulbo Ulcer (Wei Wan Tong, Epigastralgia)
   7. Upper Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage (Blood Symptom-Complex, Melena)
   8. Cholecystitis, Cholelithiasis (Hypochondriac Region Pain, Jaundice)
   9. Gallbladder Stone with Cholecystitis (Dampness and Heat in the Liver and Gallbladder)
   10. Infection of the Biliary Tract (Dampness and Heat in the Liver and Gallbladder, Deficiency of both Qi and Body Fluid)
   11. Biliary Ascariasis (Syncope due to Ascariasis)
   12. Subacute Necrosis of the Liver (Acute Jaundice)
   13. Cirrhosis of the Liver with Ascites (Accumulation of Heat and Blood Stasis with Retention of Water and Dampness)
   14. Liver Cirrhosis with Ascites (Liver Stagnation with Spleen Deficiency)
   15. Ascites due to Portal Cirrhosis (Bloody Abdominal Distention)
   16. Cirrhosis of the Liver (Deficiency of both Qi and Yin, Depression of the Liver due to Blood Stasis)
   17. Primary Liver Cancer (Liver Mass)
   18. Acute Hemorrhagic Necrotic Enteritis (Visceral Intoxication)
4. Urinary Diseases
   1. Acute Pyelonephritis (Damp-Heat Stranguria)
   2. Chronic Pyelonephritis (Urination Disturbance Secondary to Overstrain)
   3. Chronic Pyelonephritis, Uremic Stage (Guange)
   4. Renal Insufficiency in Chronic Pyelonephritis (Internal Accumulation of Damp-Heat)
   5. Acute Nephritis with Renal Failure (Yang Water)
   6. Chronic Nephritis (Edema or Injury of the Kidney)
   7. Chronic Renal Failure (Anuria)
   8. Chronic Nephritis, Renal Hypertension, Renal Anemia or Uremia (Asthenia of the Kidney)
   9. Nephrotic Syndrome (Insufficiency of Spleen and Kidney Yang, Derangement of the Kidney Qi)
   10. Chronic Nephropathic Nephritis (Dropsy, Deficiency of the Spleen and Accumulation of Heat in the Lung)
   11. Chronic Glomerular Nephritis (Edema due to Qi Deficiency and Blood Stasis)
   12. Chronic Nephritis with Acute Episodes (Impairment of both the Spleen and Kidney)
   13. Glomerulonephritis_IgA (Urine with Blood)
   14. Ureterolithiasis (Urolithiasis)
5. Genital, Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases
   1. Low Sperm Survival Rate (Jin Essence Failure)
   2. Oligospermia or Azoospermia (Sterility due to Kidney Deficiency)
   3. Hyperthyroidism (Goiter)
   4. Diabetes (Spleen and Kidney Deficiencies and Blood Stasis)
   5. Diabetic Gastrointestinal Autonomic Neuropathy (Xiao Ke Disease, Diarrhea)
   6. Hematochyluria (Stranguria)
6. Blood Diseases
   1. Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP) (Hemorrhages in Skin and Mucous Membranes)
   2. Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (Qi and Yin Deficiencies with Virulent Heat-Evil Blazing)
   3. Refractory Anemia (Shu Lou)
   4. Evan's Syndrome (Xue Zhang Hemorrhagic Disorder)
7. Neurological Diseases
   1. Neurasthenia (Incoordination between the Heart and Kidney)
   2. Neurosis (Depression Syndrome)
   3. Neurasthenia (Deficiency of the Lung and Kidney, Breakdown of Normal Physiological Coordination between the Heart and Kidney)
   4. Trigeminal Neuralgia (Facial Pain)
   5. Vertebrobasilar Ischemial (Dizziness)
   6. TIAS (Blood Stasis Symptom-Complex)
   7. Chronic Subdural Hematoma (Headache due to Blood Stasis)
   8. Epilepsy (Obstruction of the Heart Channel by Phlegm and Endogenous Wind Stirring in the Liver)
   9. Myasthenia Gravis (Spleen-Kidney Yang Deficiency)
   10. Myasthenia (Asthenia of both the Spleen and Kidney)
8. Skin Diseases and Connective Tissue Diseases
   1. Urticaria (Peilei)
   2. Zoster (Chan Yao Huo Dan, Fire around the Waist)
   3. Acute Eczema (Feng Shi Yang, Wind-Damp Injury)
   4. Trichomatosis (Shedding of Hair)
   5. Rheumatic Rash (Chronic, Protracted Rash Secondary to Blood-Wind)
   6. Skin Rash, Hypochondriac Pain (Damp-Heat and Blood Stasis)
   7. Rheumatic Arthritis (Arthralgia Syndrome)
   8. Acute Rheumatic Fever (Arthralgia due to Heat)
   9. Primary Cutaneous Amyloidosis (Blood Stasis due to Wind-Cold)
   10. Dermatomyositis (Spleen Deficiency and Blood Stasis)
   11. Dermatomyositis (Wei Zheng)
   12. Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (Qi-Xue Liang Feng Zheng)
   13. Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (Deficiency in Yin of the Kidney)
   14. Systemic Sclerodermatosis (Xueyu Zheng)
   15. Mixed Connective Tissue Disease (Deficiency of Kidney Yang and Blood Stasis)
   16. Ankylosing Spondylitis (Stubborn Arthralgia)
   17. Osteomyelitis of the Left Phalanges and Metatarsal (Fu Gu Ju, Accumulation of Damp-Heat and Blood Stasis)
   18. Tromboangiitis Obliterans (Tuo Zhu, Gangrene)
9. Oral and ENT Diseases
   1. Bechet's Disease (Hu-huo Syndrome)
   2. Bechet's Disease (Hu-huo Syndrome)
   3. Recurrent Ulcerative Stomatitis (Oral Ulcer)
   4. Infectious Stomatitis (Oral Erosion)
   5. Recurrent Ulcerative Stomatitis (Oral Ulcer)
   6. Oral Lichen Planus (Oral Erosion, Oral Mushroom)
   7. Idiopathic Deafness (Deafness Caused by Exogenous Wind-Evil)
   8. Peritonsillar Abscess (Abscess of the Throat)
10. Infectious Diseases
    1. Fever Relevant to Internal Injury (Familial Mediterranean Fever, FMF)
    2. AIDS (Warm Toxic Disease)
    3. Epidemic Hemorrhagic Fever (Wind-Bebrile Syndrome)
    4. Cholestasis of Acute Viral Hepatitis (Disturbance of the Spleen due to Cold-Dampness, Blood Stasis and Heat)
    5. Severe Icteric and Cholestatic Acute Hepatitis-B Complicated with Combined Cryoglobulinemia (Jaundice due to Stagnant Heat)
    6. Chronic Active Hepatitis-B, ecompensated Hepatocirrhosis, Endotoxemia (Blood Stasis and Blood Deficiency, Noxious Heat and Intense Fire)
    7. Chronic Persistent Hepatitis (Melancholia)
    8. Chronic Hepatitis B (Hypochondriac Pain, Spleen and Stomach Deficiency)
    9. Chronic Dysentery (Diarrhea due to Spleen-Asthenia)
11. Gynecological Diseases
    1. Menopausal Syndrome (Excessive Fire in the Heart and Liver)
    2. Secondary Amenorrhea (Amenorrhea of the Deficiency Type)/LI>
    3. Compensatory Menstruation (Vicarious Menstruation, Menoxenia)
    4. Menorrhagia (Uterine Bleeding)
    5. Dysfunctional Uterine Bleeding (Uterine Bleeding)
    6. Habitual Abortion (Habitual Abortion, Hua Tai)
    7. Habitual Abortion (Habitual Abortion)
    8. Habitual Abortion (Habitual Abortion)
    9. Endometriosis (Dysmenorrhea, Stagnation of Qi and Stasis of Blood)
    10. Metrorrhagia and Metrostaxis (Dysfunctional Uterine Bleeding)
    11. Endometriosis (Vicarious Hemoptysis)
    12. Infection of Uterine Cavity (Heat Jue)
    13. Inflammatory Pelvic Mass (Zheng-Ji)
    14. Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (Stagnation and Fire in the Liver)
    15. Infertility (Infertility)
12. Pediatric Diseases
    1. Summer Fever in Children (Septicemia)
    2. Arrhythmia, Viral Myocarditis (Deficiency of both Cardiac Vital Energy and Yin, Regular and Irregular Intermittent Pulse)
    3. Epidemic Diarrhea of Newborn Infants (Heat Diarrhea with Insufficiency of Middle Warmer Energy)
    4. Toxic Dysentery Secondary to Prolonged Enteritis (Heat of Muscles Remained After Heat Epidemic Toxic Dysentery and Persistent Dysentery)
    5. Prolonged Enteritis (Chronic Dysentery, Lowered Yang of the Spleen, Persistent Diarrhea)
    6. Cirrhosis of the Liver, Ascites, Hypersplenism (Blood Stasis in Liver Vessels, Stagnant Mass and Abdominal Tympanitis)
    7. Acute Nephritis Associated with Hypertensive Encephalopathy (Edema due to Affection by Wind, Flaring Up of Liver Heat)
    8. Acute Encephalopathy Associated with Blindness and Aphasia (Convulsive Paralysis, Type of Strong Evil Fire, Blindness and Aphasia)
    9. Nephritic Type of Nephrotic Syndrome (Deficiency of Kidney Yin)
    10. Severe Scleroderma Neonatorum (Deficiency of Spleen and Kidney Yang)
13. Other Diseases
    1. Aconitum Intoxication (Dizziness Secondary to Aconitum Intoxication)

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