Oriental Medicine: An Illustrated Guide to the Asian Arts of Healing - Hardcover

9780906026366: Oriental Medicine: An Illustrated Guide to the Asian Arts of Healing

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0906026369 ISBN 13: 9780906026366

Publisher: Serindia Publications, 1995

This is the first book to introduce a general readership to the medical traditions of Asia from the perspective of both Western scholars and traditional health practitioners. An authoritative source of information on the history, theory, and practice of the Asian healing arts, it is also a beautiful gift book featuring lavish illustrations photographed especially for this publication: body charts, herbal medicines, and other paraphernalia; exquisite artworks including paintings, sculptures, and ceramics; and scenes of contemporary medical practice throughout Asia.

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Synopsis:

This work presents traditional medical systems of Asia in a way that should provide the general reader with the tools to understand their basic history, their main theories, and their diagnostic and therapeutic methods. It mostly concerns the actual problems of adaption and integration with Western biomedicine. The scope of the book is defined in terms of the worlds of Indian, Tibetan and Chinese medicine

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