Textbook of Traditional Chinese Medicine

This book covers all the contents from theoretical basis to clinical practice comprehensively, which are under the guideline of classic inheritance and the essence of TCM. TCM is a comprehensive discipline. In this book, philosophical foundation, physiology and pathology, etiology, differentiation and diagnostics, and health-preservation of TCM, Chinese materia medica and prescription, acupuncture and moxibustion, characteristic therapies, and common clinical disease are systematically arranged. From Chapter 1-4, a clear picture of the philosophical foundation of TCM from yin-yang, five-element, qi, blood, body fluids and zang-fu viscera theory is presented. From Chapter 5-7 include etiology, pathogenesis, diagnostic and differentiation of syndromes. Chapter 8 is one of the most popular chapters with a topic of health-preservation. Chapter 9 mainly present clinical TCM therapies of common disease.