A Comprehensive Guide to Chinese Herbal Medicine is definitely the most comprehensive guide available to the Traditional Chinese Medicine student. The authors have done a very good job at breaking down the key concepts of Chinese Herbal Medicine, herbal information, and methods of treatment for various conditions (in Eastern & Western terms of diagnosis), and at making them relatively understandable to even the non-TCM student/practitioner. The material covered includes the causal differentiation of conformations and their treatment, conformation differentiation and treatment according to the eight guiding principles, the differentiation of visceral conformations and their treatment with herbs and formulas, differentiation and treatment of common conformations, differentiation of Conformations and Prescriptions for common diseases (Western diagnoses), surgical and skin Diseases and gynecological Disorders. This is one of the few Chinese Herbal Medicine books available to the general public that doesn’t limit its assessment and treatment information to the five elements, like many other popular books on the subject have done. This is very useful as Chinese Medicine cannot, and should not, rely solely on one approach or method to treatment. The scope and breadth of material covered, makes this text one of the better books available to the general public on Chinese Herbal Medicine, and a worthwhile purchase for anyone interested in the subject!
Authors: Ze-Lin Chen & Mei-Fang Chen
Publishers: Castle Books
Date of Publication: 1999
No. of pages: 492