For more than four thousand years, Chinese scholars and medical practitioners have documented ways of maintaining health and treating illness, from theories of
yin-yang and the
zang-fu organs to the use of herbs and acupuncture.
The Essential Book of Traditional Chinese Medicine marks the first time such concepts have been made accessible to Westerners in a comprehensive form.
For more than four thousand years, Chinese scholars and medical practitioners have documented ways of maintaining health and treating illness, from theories of yin-yang and the zang-fu organs to the use of herbs and acupuncture. The Essential Book of Traditional Chinese Medicine marks the first time such concepts have been made accessible to Westerners in a comprehensive form.
[An] excellent encyclopedic handbook.--Science and Technology Reference Review
Reflects a great deal of work not only by the author...but also by a group of ten highly proficient translators and editors on both sides of the Pacific who did a wonderful job.--Journal of the American Medical Association