Patterns & Practice in Chinese Medicine by Jingyi Zhao and Xuemeii Li paperback

Description: Patterns & Practice in Chinese Medicine Reprint Editionby Zhao Jingyi (Author), Li Xuemei (Author) Paperback: 324 pagesPublisher: Eastland Press; Reprint edition (April 18, 2012)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0939616750ISBN-13: 9780939616756Product Dimensions: 0.8 x 8.2 x 10.8 inchesShipping Weight: 2 pounds Like its companion volume Acupuncture Patterns & Practice(ISBN:9780939616787), http://www.ebay.com/itm/-/331737417924 This book is a clinically oriented presentation of differential diagnosis and treatment in traditional Chinese medicine.This new volume consists of eight series of case studies (40 in all), each focusing on a variety of patterns associated with a common clinical disorder: asthma, facial disorders, poor appetite, abdominal and epigastric pain, abnormal bowel movements, abnormal urination, constraint disorders, hypochondrial and intercostal pain.Each case provides a systematic analysis of the patient's presentation, from the cause and site of the disorder to the underlying theory of the case. The pathogenesis, pattern of disease, treatment principle, and modalities of treatment including both herbs and acupuncture are described in illuminating detail. the authors, themselves both clinicians, then pose a number of questions that are likely to confront the practitioner.More than a hundred charts organize and present in graphic form what is explained in the text. Each chapter concludes with a diagnostic overview or tree that summarizes the process of differential diagnosis for the patterns associated with that disorder.Of particular value to the developing practitioner, as well as the student who is making the transition from the classroom to the clinic."Maintains the same high standards [as] Acupuncture Patterns & Practice, an inspiration to students and practitioners in the thoroughness and acuteness with which it approached the analysis of each case study." - The Journal of Chinese MedicineMain DescriptionThis is the second volume in a series of clinically oriented studies of traditional Chinese diagnosis, acupuncture, and herbal therapy. In this volume, the authors present eight series of cases, each devoted to a common clinical disorder: asthma, epigastric and abdominal pain, abnormal appetite, diarrhea, depression and anxiety (yu), facial pain, chest and intercostal pain, and abnormal urination. In each of the few dozen illustrative case histories (variations on common patterns), the authors describe the dynamics of the traditional Chinese diagnostic art of differentiation of patterns, and of treatment with acupuncture and herbal therapy. Dozens of charts graphically illustrate the information in the case histories, and each chapter concludes with a diagnostic master chart.

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