The Way Forward for Chinese Medicine

Preliminaries......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Illustrations......Page 8
List of Tables......Page 10
Foreword......Page 14
Preface......Page 16
Contributors......Page 18
Acknowledgement......Page 25
1 The Historical Evolution of Chinese Medicine and Orthodox Medicine in China......Page 28
2 Philosophical Aspects of Chinese Medicine from a Chinese Medicine Academician......Page 50
3 The Theory and Application of Functional Food in Chinese medicine......Page 78
4 Understanding the Toxicity of Chinese Herbal Medicinal Products......Page 98
5 The Practice of Chinese Medicine in TCM-KLINIC Kotzting in Germany......Page 120
6 The Practice of Chinese Medicine in the National Health Service Environment in the United Kingdom......Page 140
7 Treatment of Irritable Bowel Syndrome Using Chinese Medicine......Page 148
8 The Progress of Using Chinese Herbal Medicines in Cancer Research......Page 160
9 DNA Techniques for the Authentication of Chinese Medicinal Materials......Page 184
10 The Progress of Chinese Medicine in Australia......Page 204
11 The Progress of Chinese Medicine in Mainland China......Page 222
12 The Progress of Chinese Medicine in Some Countries in Europe......Page 262
13 The Progress of Chinese Medicine in Hong Kong SAR, China......Page 292
14 The Progress of Kampo Medicine in Japan......Page 322
15 The Progress of Chinese Medicine in Taiwan......Page 334
16 The Progress of Chinese Medicine in the United Kingdom......Page 348
17 The Progress of Chinese Medicine in the United States of America......Page 376
18 A Curriculum Model for Teaching and Training Chinese Medicine in English\'......Page 412
19 An Orthodox Practitioner\'s View of Chinese Medicine......Page 430
20 The Way Forward for Chinese Medicine......Page 446
Index......Page 470