The Essential Book of Traditional Chinese Clinical Practice - Softcover

Liu, Yanchi; Fang, Tingyu; Chen, Laidi; Vian, Kathleen; Eckman, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0231103573 ISBN 13: 9780231103572

Publisher: Columbia University Press, 1995

Synopsis

For more than our 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. This book marks the first time such concepts have been made accessible to Westerners in a comprehensive form.

About this title

Review:

[An] excellent encyclopedic handbook.--Science and Technology Reference Review

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

From the Back Cover:

For more than four 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 comprehensive form.

About this edition

• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0231103573
• ISBN 13: 9780231103572
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 326