The Practice of Chinese Medicine: The Treatment of Diseases with Acupuncture and Chinese Herbs

Foreword
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
NOTE ON THE TRANSLATION OF CHINESE MEDICAL TERMS
CHAPTER 1. HEADACHES
     AETIOLOGY
     CHANNELS
     PATHOLOGY
     DIAGNOSIS
     TREATMENT STRATEGIES AND PRINCIPLES OF POINT SELECTION
     IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS AND TREATMENT
     MODERN CHINESE LITERATURE
     CLINICAL TRIALS
     PATIENTS’ STATISTICS
     WESTERN DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS OF HEADACHES
     PROGNOSIS AND PREVENTION
     END NOTES
CHAPTER 2. DIZZINESS
     AETIOLOGY
     PATHOLOGY
     IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS AND TREATMENT
     MODERN CHINESE LITERATURE
     WESTERN DIFFERENTIATION
     END NOTES
CHAPTER 3. BREATHLESSNESS (CHUAN)
     AETIOLOGY
     PATHOLOGY
     IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS AND TREATMENT
     PROGNOSIS AND PREVENTION
     WESTERN DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS
     END NOTES
CHAPTER 4. WHEEZING (XIAO)
     AETIOLOGY
     PATHOLOGY
     IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS AND TREATMENT
     MODERN CHINESE LITERATURE
     PROGNOSIS AND PREVENTION
     WESTERN DIFFERENTIATION
     END NOTES
CHAPTER 5. ALLERGIC ASTHMA (ATOPIC ECZEMA)
     ALLERGIC ASTHMA IN WESTERN MEDICINE
     CONNECTIONS AND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN EARLY-ONSET ALLERGIC ASTHMA AND XIAO-CHUAN
     A NEW THEORY OF ASTHMA
     IN BETWEEN ATTACKS
     THE LIVER AND ASTHMA
     ATOPIC ECZEMA
     MODERN CHINESE LITERATURE
     CLINICAL TRIALS
     CASE HISTORIES
     PATIENTS’ STATISTICS
     PROGNOSIS AND PREVENTION
     WESTERN DRUG THERAPY
     END NOTES
CHAPTER 6. ALLERGIC RHINITIS
     ALLERGIC RHINITIS IN WESTERN MEDICINE
     THE CHINESE THEORY OF BI YUAN
     DIFFERENCES BETWEEN ALLERGIC RHINITIS AND BI YUAN
     A NEW THEORY OF ALLERGIC RHINITIS
     TREATMENT OF ALLERGIC RHINITIS
     CLINICAL TRIALS
     CASE HISTORIES
     END NOTES
CHAPTER 7. SINUSITIS (NASAL POLYPS)
     AETIOLOGY AND PATHOLOGY
     IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS AND TREATMENT
     MODERN CHINESE LITERATURE
     CLINICAL TRIALS
     PROGNOSIS
     CHINESE MEDICINE TREATMENT
     END NOTES
CHAPTER 8. COUGH
     AETIOLOGY
     PATHOLOGY
     ACUPUNCTURE IN COUGH
     DIAGNOSIS
     IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS AND TREATMENT
     ACUTE
     ACUTE EXTERIOR
     ACUTE INTERIOR
     CHRONIC
     CHRONIC FULL
     CHRONIC EMPTY
     MODERN CHINESE LITERATURE
     CLINICAL TRIALS
     PROGNOSIS
     WESTERN DIFFERENTIATION
     END NOTES
CHAPTER 9. THE PSYCHE IN CHINESE MEDICINE
     NATURE OF THE MIND (SHEN) IN CHINESE MEDICINE
     THE FIVE MENTAL-SPIRITUAL ASPECTS
     END NOTES
CHAPTER 10. THE EMOTIONS
     THE EMOTIONS
     THE PATHOLOGY OF QI AND MINISTER FIRE IN EMOTIONAL PROBLEMS
     END NOTES
CHAPTER 11. AETIOLOGY OF MENTALEMOTIONAL PROBLEMS
     CONSTITUTION
     DIET
     OVERWORK
     EXCESSIVE SEXUAL ACTIVITY
     DRUGS
     PREVENTION OF MENTALEMOTIONAL PROBLEMS
     END NOTES
CHAPTER 12. DIAGNOSIS OF MENTALEMOTIONAL PROBLEMS
     COMPLEXION
     EYES
     PULSE
     TONGUE
     END NOTES
CHAPTER 13. DEPRESSION
     DEFINITION AND WESTERN MEDICINE’S VIEW
     PATHOLOGY OF DEPRESSION IN CHINESE MEDICINE
     AETIOLOGY
     IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS AND TREATMENT
     ACUPUNCTURE POINTS FOR DEPRESSION
     HERBS FOR DEPRESSION
     MODERN CHINESE LITERATURE
     CLINICAL TRIALS
     CASE HISTORIES
     PATIENTS’ STATISTICS
     END NOTES
CHAPTER 14. ANXIETY
     ANXIETY IN WESTERN MEDICINE
     ANXIETY IN CHINESE MEDICINE
     AETIOLOGY
     PATHOLOGY AND TREATMENT PRINCIPLES
     ACUPUNCTURE TREATMENT OF ANXIETY
     IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS AND TREATMENT
     MODERN CHINESE LITERATURE
     CASE HISTORIES
     END NOTES
CHAPTER 15. INSOMNIA (SOMNOLENCE, POOR MEMORY)
     AETIOLOGY
     PATHOLOGY
     DIAGNOSIS
     IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS AND TREATMENT
     MODERN CHINESE LITERATURE
     CLINICAL TRIALS
     PATIENTS’ STATISTICS
     IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS AND TREATMENT
     AETIOLOGY
     IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS AND TREATMENT
     END NOTES
CHAPTER 16. PATTERNS IN MENTALEMOTIONAL PROBLEMS AND THEIR TREATMENT WITH HERBAL MEDICINE AND ACUPUNCTURE
     THE EFFECT OF MENTAL-EMOTIONAL PROBLEMS ON QI, BLOOD, YIN AND PATHOGENIC FACTORS
     MIND OBSTRUCTED, UNSETTLED, WEAKENED
     MIND OBSTRUCTED
     MIND UNSETTLED
     MIND WEAKENED
     NOTE
     END NOTES
CHAPTER 17. TINNITUS
     AETIOLOGY
     PATHOLOGY
     IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS AND TREATMENT
     MODERN CHINESE LITERATURE
     PROGNOSIS
     END NOTES
CHAPTER 18. GOITRE (HYPOTHYROIDISM, HYPERTHYROIDISM)
     AETIOLOGY
     PATHOLOGY
     DIAGNOSIS
     GENERAL TREATMENT INDICATIONS
     IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS AND TREATMENT
     PROGNOSIS AND PREVENTION
     GOITRE IN WESTERN MEDICINE
     PATHOLOGY
     CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS
     IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS AND TREATMENT
     PATHOLOGY
     CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS
     HYPERTHYROIDISM IN CHINESE MEDICINE: A REVIEW OF CHINESE LITERATURE
     IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS AND TREATMENT
     CASE HISTORIES
     MODERN CHINESE LITERATURE
     END NOTES
CHAPTER 19. HYPERTENSION
     HYPERTENSION IN WESTERN MEDICINE
     HYPERTENSION IN CHINESE MEDICINE
     IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS AND TREATMENT
     MODERN CHINESE LITERATURE
     CASE HISTORIES
     PATIENTS’ STATISTICS
     CLINICAL TRIALS
     END NOTES
CHAPTER 20. TIREDNESS
     AETIOLOGY
     IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS AND TREATMENT
     PATHOLOGY
     EMPTY
     FULL
     PATIENTS’ STATISTICS
     WESTERN DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS
     END NOTES
CHAPTER 21. CHEST PAINFUL OBSTRUCTION SYNDROME
     AETIOLOGY
     PATHOLOGY
     DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS
     TREATMENT STRATEGIES
     IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS AND TREATMENT
     PROGNOSIS AND PREVENTION
     MODERN CHINESE LITERATURE
     CLINICAL TRIALS
     WESTERN DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS
     END NOTES
CHAPTER 22. EPIGASTRIC PAIN
     AETIOLOGY
     PATHOLOGY
     DIAGNOSIS
     IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS AND TREATMENT
     PROGNOSIS AND PREVENTION
     MODERN CHINESE LITERATURE
     CLINICAL TRIALS
     WESTERN DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS
     END NOTES
CHAPTER 23. NAUSEA AND VOMITING
     AETIOLOGY
     PATHOLOGY
     DIAGNOSIS
     IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS AND TREATMENT
     CLINICAL TRIALS
     END NOTES
CHAPTER 24. GASTRO-OESOPHAGEAL REFLUX DISEASE
     GASTRO-OESOPHAGEAL REFLUX DISEASE IN CHINESE MEDICINE
     AETIOLOGY OF GASTROOESOPHAGEAL REFLUX DISEASE
     PATHOLOGY OF GASTROOESOPHAGEAL REFLUX DISEASE
     IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS AND TREATMENT
     MODERN CHINESE LITERATURE
     END NOTES
CHAPTER 25. MOUTH ULCERS
     MOUTH ULCERS IN CHINESE MEDICINE
     IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS AND TREATMENT
     MODERN CHINESE LITERATURE
     END NOTES
CHAPTER 26. HYPOCHONDRIAL PAIN (GALL BLADDER STONES)
     AETIOLOGY AND PATHOLOGY
     IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS AND TREATMENT
     WESTERN DIFFERENTIATION
     IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS
     TREATMENT
     NOTES ON ACUPUNCTURE TREATMENT
     MODERN CHINESE LITERATURE
     END NOTES
CHAPTER 27. ABDOMINAL PAIN
     AETIOLOGY AND PATHOLOGY
     DIAGNOSIS
     IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS AND TREATMENT
     MODERN CHINESE LITERATURE
     PATIENTS’ STATISTICS
     PROGNOSIS AND PREVENTION
     WESTERN DIFFERENTIATION
     END NOTES
CHAPTER 28. ABDOMINAL MASSES
     AETIOLOGY
     PATHOLOGY
     IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS AND TREATMENT
     MODERN CHINESE LITERATURE
     PROGNOSIS AND PREVENTION
     WESTERN DIFFERENTIATION
     END NOTES
CHAPTER 29. DIARRHOEA
     AETIOLOGY AND PATHOLOGY
     DIAGNOSIS
     IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS AND TREATMENT
     MODERN CHINESE LITERATURE
     PROGNOSIS
     WESTERN DIFFERENTIATION
     END NOTES
CHAPTER 30. CONSTIPATION
     AETIOLOGY
     PATHOLOGY
     DIAGNOSIS
     IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS AND TREATMENT
     PROGNOSIS AND PREVENTION
     MODERN CHINESE LITERATURE
     WESTERN DIFFERENTIATION
     END NOTES
CHAPTER 31. URINARY SYNDROME (URINARY CALCULI)
     PATHOLOGY
     OVERVIEW OF PATTERNS
     AETIOLOGY
     DIAGNOSIS
     IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS AND TREATMENT
     MODERN CHINESE LITERATURE
     PROGNOSIS AND PREVENTION
     PATIENTS’ STATISTICS
     WESTERN DIFFERENTIATION
     CLINICAL TRIALS
     PATHOLOGY
     AETIOLOGY
     TREATMENT
     PROGNOSIS
     END NOTES
CHAPTER 32. ENURESIS AND INCONTINENCE (BLOOD IN THE URINE)
     AETIOLOGY
     PATHOLOGY
     IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS AND TREATMENT
     PROGNOSIS
     MODERN CHINESE LITERATURE
     END NOTES
CHAPTER 33. URINARY RETENTION
     PATHOLOGY
     IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS AND TREATMENT
     MODERN CHINESE LITERATURE
     END NOTES
CHAPTER 34. INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS
     INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS IN CHINESE MEDICINE
     IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS AND TREATMENT
     PROGNOSIS AND PREVENTION
CHAPTER 35. BENIGN PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA
     THE PROSTATE AND BENIGN PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA IN WESTERN MEDICINE
     THE PROSTATE IN CHINESE MEDICINE
     PATHOLOGY OF BENIGN PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA IN CHINESE MEDICINE
     TREATMENT STRATEGIES
     IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS AND TREATMENT
     MODERN CHINESE LITERATURE
     END NOTES
CHAPTER 36. PROSTATITIS AND PROSTATODYNIA
     CHRONIC PROSTATITIS IN WESTERN MEDICINE
     CHRONIC PROSTATITIS IN CHINESE MEDICINE
     IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS AND TREATMENT
     MODERN CHINESE LITERATURE
     CLINICAL TRIALS
     END NOTES
CHAPTER 37. OEDEMA (NEPHRITIS)
     AETIOLOGY
     PATHOLOGY
     IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS AND TREATMENT
     MODERN CHINESE LITERATURE
     PROGNOSIS
     WESTERN MEDICINE DIFFERENTIATION
     AETIOLOGY AND PATHOLOGY
     IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS AND TREATMENT
     IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS AND TREATMENT
     PREVENTION
     END NOTES
CHAPTER 38. PAINFUL OBSTRUCTION SYNDROME (RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS)
     POINTS
     THE SPACE BETWEEN SKIN AND MUSCLES (COU LI)
     AETIOLOGY
     PATHOLOGY
     IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS
     TREATMENT PRINCIPLES
     ACUPUNCTURE TREATMENT
     HERBAL THERAPY
     TREATMENT OF SPECIFIC PARTS OF THE BODY
     PROGNOSIS AND PREVENTION
     MODERN CHINESE LITERATURE
     CLINICAL TRIALS
     WESTERN DIFFERENTIATION
     AETIOLOGY
     PATHOLOGY AND TREATMENT PRINCIPLES
     IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS AND TREATMENT
     CLINICAL TRIALS
     END NOTES
CHAPTER 39. LOWER BACKACHE AND SCIATICA
     AETIOLOGY
     PATHOLOGY
     DIAGNOSIS
     IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS AND HERBAL TREATMENT
     ACUPUNCTURE TREATMENT OF LOWER BACKACHE
     TREATMENT OF SCIATICA
     PATIENTS’ STATISTICS
     TREATMENT OF SCIATICA
     PATIENTS’ STATISTICS
     PROGNOSIS AND PREVENTION
     MODERN CHINESE LITERATURE
     CLINICAL TRIALS
     WESTERN DIFFERENTIATION
     END NOTES
CHAPTER 40. FIBROMYALGIA
     FIBROMYALGIA IN WESTERN MEDICINE
     FIBROMYALGIA IN CHINESE MEDICINE
     AETIOLOGY OF FIBROMYALGIA IN CHINESE MEDICINE
     PATHOLOGY OF FIBROMYALGIA IN CHINESE MEDICINE
     TREATMENT PRINCIPLES AND STRATEGY
     ACUPUNCTURE IN THE TREATMENT OF FIBROMYALGIA
     IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS AND TREATMENT
     CLINICAL TRIALS
     COMPARISON OF MYOFASCIAL PAIN SYNDROME, FIBROMYALGIA AND POSTVIRAL FATIGUE SYNDROME
     END NOTES
CHAPTER 41. CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME
     CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME IN WESTERN MEDICINE
     CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME IN CHINESE MEDICINE
     AETIOLOGY
     PATHOLOGY AND TREATMENT PRINCIPLES
     IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS AND TREATMENT
     MODERN CHINESE LITERATURE
     PATIENTS’ STATISTICS
     END NOTES
CHAPTER 42. PARKINSON’S DISEASE
     AETIOLOGY
     PATHOLOGY
     ACUPUNCTURE IN THE TREATMENT OF PARKINSON’S DISEASE
     IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS AND TREATMENT
     PROGNOSIS AND PREVENTION
     MODERN CHINESE LITERATURE
     CLINICAL TRIALS
     END NOTES
CHAPTER 43. WIND-STROKE
     AETIOLOGY
     PATHOLOGY
     IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS
     ATTACK OF THE CHANNELS ALONE (MILD TYPE)
     TREATMENT
     ATTACK OF THE CHANNELS ALONE
     PATTERNS IN THE SEQUELAE STAGE
     OTHER METHODS OF TREATMENT
     PROGNOSIS, FREQUENCY OF TREATMENT, AND PREVENTION
     MODERN CHINESE LITERATURE
     END NOTES
CHAPTER 44. ATROPHY SYNDROME
     AETIOLOGY
     PATHOLOGY
     IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS AND TREATMENT
     MODERN CHINESE LITERATURE
     PROGNOSIS AND WESTERN DIFFERENTIATION
     END NOTES
CHAPTER 45. MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS
     AETIOLOGY
     PATHOLOGY
     ACUPUNCTURE TREATMENT
     IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS AND TREATMENT
     MODERN CHINESE LITERATURE
     PROGNOSIS
     END NOTES
CHAPTER 46. BLEEDING
     AETIOLOGY
     PATHOLOGY
     TREATMENT PRINCIPLES
     COUGHING BLOOD
     BLOOD IN THE STOOLS
     BLOOD IN THE URINE
     BLEEDING UNDER THE SKIN
     BLEEDING GUMS
     PROGNOSIS AND PREVENTION
     MODERN CHINESE LITERATURE
     END NOTES
CHAPTER 47. ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION
     ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION IN CHINESE MEDICINE
     AETIOLOGY OF ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION IN CHINESE MEDICINE
     PATHOLOGY OF ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION IN CHINESE MEDICINE
     IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS AND TREATMENT
     MODERN CHINESE LITERATURE
     CLINICAL TRIALS
CHAPTER 48. COMMON COLD AND INFLUENZA
     INTRODUCTION
     AETIOLOGY AND PATHOLOGY
     IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS AND TREATMENT
     PROGNOSIS AND PREVENTION
     END NOTES
Appendix 1: IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS ACCORDING TO THE SIX STAGES
     GREATER YANG STAGE
     BRIGHT YANG STAGE
     GREATER YIN STAGE
     LESSER YIN STAGE
     TERMINAL YIN STAGE
Appendix 2: IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS ACCORDING TO THE FOUR LEVELS
     DEFENSIVE-QI LEVEL
     QI LEVEL
     NUTRITIVE-QI LEVEL
     BLOOD LEVEL
Appendix 3: IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS ACCORDING TO THE THREE BURNERS
     UPPER BURNER
     MIDDLE BURNER
     LOWER BURNER
Appendix 4: PRESCRIPTIONS
     EMPIRICAL PRESCRIPTIONS
Appendix 5: ACUPUNCTURE POINTS FOR MENTAL-EMOTIONAL PROBLEMS
     ENGLISH–PINYIN GLOSSARY OF CHINESE TERMS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
CHRONOLOGY OF CHINESE DYNASTIES
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