The Essential Book of Traditional Chinese Medicine: Clinical Practice

Volume 2 By Liu Yanchi For more than four thousand years, Chinese scholars and medical practitioners have documented ways of maintaining health and treating illness, from theories of yin-yang and the zang-fu organs to the use of herbs and acupuncture. The Essential Book of Traditional Chinese Medicine marks the first time such concepts have been made accessible to Westerners in a comprehensive form. Now, for the first time, a complete account of traditional Chinese medicine....Volume One is devoted to theory [founded on] the Five Elements of water, fire, wood, metal, and earth, which categorized all natural phenomena including the interaction of body organs....Treatment is the subject of Volume Two, [which contains] a table covering all plants, animals, and minerals believed to have therapeutic activity.-- "Times Literary Supplement" Reflects a great deal of work not only by the author...but also by a group of ten highly proficient translators and editors on both sides of the Pacific who did a wonderful job.-- "Journal of the American Medical Association" Paperback 479 pages ISBN-10 023110359X ISBN-13 978 0231103596