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Item No: BK09070
Title: Practical Diagnosis in Traditional Chinese Medicine
Author: Tietao Deng
Publisher: 1999
Language: English, Hardcover Book, Pages: 556, : 8" x 11"
ISBN: 0443045828
Includes: Index ~ Bibliography ~ Footnotes ~ Appendix ~ Photographs
The book is in six major sections with information presented from the general to the specific allowing the reader to understand the many details in context. The first section describes the four examinations. The second covers eight principle; disease cause; six channel; four aspect; qi, blood and fluid; viscera and bowel, and channel and network vessel patterns. The third section concentrates on the application of these patterns in practice, including small but unique chapters giving a step-by-step approach to determining treatment from the pattern and the differentiation of various conditions that are treated as fixed-entity diseases. The fourth section describes the application of traditional diagnostic principles in the gynecology, pediatrics, external medicine, traumatology, opthamology, and EENT clinics. This is followed in section five with an explanation of 25 commonly-seen clinical symptoms and, in section six, an explanation of the standard in- and out-patient medical record and how to prepare one. Several pages are devoted to clinical observations in external medicine, and there are chapter-ending tables that review differentiations in useful detail. In each chapter there are differentiations of what may and what must be clinically observed before a pattern can be identified with confidence. Throughout, the book is distinguished by the both the extent and depth of its detail.
The author has compiled a thorough and detailed summation of the scope of Chinese traditional diagnosis. Sections include examination methods, pattern identification, comprehensive application of the methods of pattern identification, diagnostic principles of clinical classifications, diagnosis of commonly seen symptoms, and medical record-keeping. The work has been carefully edited and translated by faculty members of the Pacific Institute (New York) so as to retain fidelity of terminological meaning while providing maximal accessibility for Western students of TCM.
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