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.

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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