World Century Compendium To Tcm - Volume 4.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Xia, Xiang.

Contributor:

• Shen, Xiao-heng.
• Chen, Min.
• Xiao, Yan-qian.
• He, Yebo.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Massage therapy.
• Medicine, Chinese.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (676 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Singapore : World Scientific Publishing Company, 2013.

Contents:

• Intro
• Contents
• Foreword to the English Edition
• Preface
• Chapter 1 Common Ailments
• Week 1 Headache
• Etiology and Pathology
• Diagnostic Key Points
• Syndrome Differentiation
• 1. Headache due to wind-cold
• 2. Headache due to wind-heat
• 3. Headache due to wind-dampness
• 4. Headache due to hyperactivity of liver yang
• 5. Headache due to deficiency of the kidneys
• 6. Headache due to deficiency of blood
• 7. Headache due to turbid phlegm
• Differential Treatment
• Chinese Patent Medicine
• Simple and Handy Prescriptions
• Other Therapies
• Cautions and Advice
• Daily Exercises
• Vertigo
• 1. Hyperactivity of liver yang
• 2. Deficiency of qi and blood
• 3. Insufficiency of kidney essence
• 4. Internal obstruction of turbid phlegm
• 3. Deficiency of kidney essence
• Insomnia
• 1. Liver qi stagnation transforming into fire
• 2. Upward disturbance of phlegm and heat
• 3. Hyperactivity of fire due to yin deficiency
• 4. Deficiency of the spleen and stomach
• 5. Qi deficiency of the heart and gallbladder
• 2. Upward disturbance of phlegm and heat.
• 3. Hyperactivity of fire due to yin deficiency
• Sweating Syndrome
• 1. Insecurity of lung-wei
• 2. Disharmony between ying-nutrients and wei-defense
• 4. Stagnation and steaming of pathogenic heat
• Aphtha
• 1. Aphtha due to wind-heat
• 2. Aphtha due to fire-heat
• 3. Aphtha due to yin deficiency
• 4. Aphtha due to qi deficiency
• Simple and Handy Pres criptions
• Diarrhea
• 1. Invasion of cold-dampness
• 2. Contraction of damp-heat (summer-heat)
• 3. Retention of food in the stomach and intestine
• 4. Liver qi affecting the spleen
• 5. Weakness of the spleen and stomach
• 6. Deficiency of kidney yang
• 3. Retention of food in the stomach and intestine.
• 4. Liver qi affecting the spleen
• Week 2 Constipation
• 1. Constipation due to accumulation of heat
• 2. Constipation due to stagnation of qi
• 3. Constipation due to deficiency of qi
• 4. Constipation due to deficiency of blood
• 5. Constipation due to predominance of cold
• Bleeding
• 1. Upward attack of stomach fire
• 2. Invasion of pathogenic heat
• 3. Exuberance of fire due to yin deficiency
• 4. Failure of qi to control blood
• Chapter 2 Diseases of the Respiratory System
• Cold
• 1. Syndrome of wind-cold
• 2. Syndrome of wind-heat
• 3. Syndrome of summer-heat and dampness
• Chinese Patent Medicine.
• Simple and Handy Prescriptions
• Bronchitis
• 1. Invasion of wind-cold into the lungs
• 2. Invasion of wind-heat into the lungs
• 3. Impairment of the lungs by dry-heat
• 4. Accumulation of phlegm and dampness in the lungs
• 5. Stagnation of phlegm and heat in the lungs
• 6. Deficiency of qi and yin
• 7. Yang deficiency of the spleen and kidneys
• Bronchial Asthma
• 1. Asthma of cold (due to latent cold-phlegm in the lungs)
• 2. Asthma of heat (due to stagnated phlegm-heat in the lungs)
• 3. Asthma due to lung deficiency (deficiency of lung-wei)
• 4. Asthma due to spleen deficiency (deficiency of spleen qi)
• 5. Asthma due to kidney deficiency (deficiency of primordial qi of the kidneys)
• 1. Asthma of cold type
• 2. Asthma of heat type
• 3. Asthma due to lung deficiency
• 4. Asthma due to spleen deficiency
• 5. Asthma due to kidney deficiency
• Bronchiectasis
• 1. Dryness and heat impairing the lungs
• 2. Liver fire invading the lungs.
• 3. Phlegm and heat obstructing the lungs
• 4. Deficiency of yin producing heat in the lungs
• 2. Liver fire invading the lungs
• 3. Phlegm and heat obstructing the lungs
• Week 3 Pneumonia
• 1. Invasion of wind-heat into the lungs
• 2. Accumulation of pathogenic heat in the lungs
• 3. Invasion of heat-toxins into the interior
• 4. Extreme depletion of yang qi
• Lung Abscess
• 1. The initial stage
• 2. The abscess-forming stage
• 3. The pus-discharging stage
• 4. The recovery stage
• Pulmonary Tuberculosis
• 1. Insufficiency of lung yin
• 2. Exuberance of fire due to yin deficiency
• 3. Consumption of qi and yin
• 4. Deficiency of yin and yang
• 3. Consumption of qi and yin.
• 4. Deficiency of yin and yang.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Xia, Xiang World Century Compendium To Tcm - Volume 4: Introduction To Chinese Internal Medicine

ISBN:

9781938134203

OCLC:

863203970