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Item No: BK10056
Title: Patterns & Practice in Chinese Medicine
Author: ZHAO Jingyi & LI Xuemei
Publisher: Eastland Press, 1998 1st Edition
Language: English, 280 x 215mm, 337pp
ISBN: 9780939616275
Patterns & Practice in Chinese Medicine, like its companion volume, Acupuncture Patterns & Practice, is a practical clinically orientated presentation of differential diagnosis and treatment in traditional Chinese medicine.
This volume consists of eight series of case studies, each focussing on a variety of patterns associated with a common clinical disorder or symptom category: asthma, facial disorders, poor appetite, abdominal and epigastric pain, abnormal bowel movements, abnormal urination, constraint disorders, hypochondrial and intercostal pain. In each of the 40 case studies, the authors systematically analyse the patient's presentation, from the cause and site of the disorder to the underlying theory of the case. The pathogenesis, pattern of disease, treatment principle, and modalities of treatment - which here includes both herbs and acupuncture - are described and analysed in considerable detail. The authors, themselves clinicians, then pose a number of questions that are likely to confront the practitioner as he or she attempts to differentiate one related case from another. This method will be of particular benefit to the developing practitioner, as well as students who are making the transition from the classroom to the clinic.
Like the first volume, Patterns & Practice in Chinese Medicine includes over 100 charts that organise and present in graphic form what has been explained in the text. Each chapter concludes with a diagnostic overview or 'tree' that summaries the process of differential diagnosis from the patterns associated with that particular disorder or category of symptoms. Rounding out the book is a brief appendix on cooking herbs, a bibliography of source materials, an index of herbal formulaes and acupuncture points mentioned in the text, and an extensive general index.
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