Practical Traditional Chinese Medicine

PRACTICAL TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE
Written by Xie Zhufan
Publisher: Foreign Languages Press
Publish Date: 2000
English edition
Hardcover, 594 pages
ISBN 7119023756 more info

This book is written to meet the needs of Western doctors who do not have the knowledge of Chinese but wish to study Chinese medicine. It covers basic theories and major therapeutic measures, i. e. herbal medication and acupuncture. The diseases discussed are mainly those, for which Western medical treatment is either hardly effective or likely to produce serious side effects while Chinese medicine may gain better results. The therapeutic methods have been carefully selected and are quite practical and easy to apply.

Professor Xie Zhufan is a leading specialist in the area of integrating Chinese and Western medicine. Taking heed of the cultural differences of the East and the West, he has written Practical Traditional Chinese Medicine to meet the needs of Western doctors who do not have the knowledge of Chinese but wish to study Chinese medicine. The book is reader-friendly, explaining profound concepts in simple terms. It covers basic theories and major therapeutic measures, i.e., herbal medication and acupuncture. The diseases discussed are mainly those, for which Western medical treatment is either hardly effective or likely to produce serious side effects while Chinese medicine may gain better results. The therapeutic methods have been carefully selected; they are quite practical and easy to apply, indicating the characteristic features of traditional Chinese medicine: simplicity and effectiveness. The book not only includes the basic knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine, but also the fruits of Professor Xie's own experience and understanding.

Professor Xie Zhufan's early publication: Traditional Chinese Internal Medicine

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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