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Traditional Chinese Medicine Yuqun Liao

Traditional Chinese Medicine By Yuqun Liao

Traditional Chinese Medicine by Yuqun Liao


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Summary

Traditional Chinese medicine is one of the most renowned and most controversial scientific achievements of ancient Chinese civilisation. Liao Yuqun provides a comprehensive, illustrated introduction to the history and theory of traditional Chinese medicine, exploring classical medical texts, diagnostic methods, the use of medical herbs and techniques such as acupuncture.

Traditional Chinese Medicine Summary

Traditional Chinese Medicine by Yuqun Liao

Traditional Chinese medicine is one of the most renowned and most controversial scientific achievements of ancient Chinese civilisation. Although Western medicine is often the basic method used to deal with medical problems, the techniques developed in traditional Chinese medicine still play an important part in protecting the health of the Chinese people and are practised throughout the world. Liao Yuqun provides a comprehensive, illustrated introduction to the history and theory of traditional Chinese medicine, exploring classical medical texts, diagnostic methods, the use of medical herbs and techniques such as acupuncture.

About Yuqun Liao

Liao Yuqun is a researcher and director of the Institute for the History of Natural Science at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and vice-president of the Chinese Society of the History of Science and Technology. He has published widely on the history of Chinese medicine and classical Chinese medical texts.

Table of Contents

Foreword; 1. Approach to traditional Chinese medicine; 2. The classics of TCM; 3. Basic theory of TCM; 4. Internal and external therapies of TCM; 5. Knowledge of Materia Medica; 6. Famous doctors in history; 7. TCM and life cultivation; 8. Inheritance and development of modern TCM; Appendix: chronological table of the Chinese dynasties.

Additional information

NLS9780415886963
9780521186728
0521186722
Traditional Chinese Medicine by Yuqun Liao
New
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
20110825
138
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