Guide to the Integration of Chinese and Western Medicine

Author: Chen Huainxin
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Publish Date: 2003-10-01
Features: This book starts from the basic forms of Western and Chinese medicine in the early stages of medical development, exploring their origins, establishment as independent systems, developmental processes, and strengths and weaknesses. It integrates the essence of diagnostic methods from both Western and Chinese medicine, forming the six diagnostic methods of inquiry, observation, palpation, percussion, auscultation, and olfaction. It positions the "pattern" () of Chinese medicine's differential diagnosis as a component of modern pathophysiological diagnosis, making it an important part of the complete diagnostic system in modern medicine. Among the eight therapeutic methods of Chinese medicine—sweating, inducing vomiting, purgation, harmonization, clearing, resolving, warming, and tonifying—modern medical scientific methods and techniques are incorporated, viewing them as supplements, enrichments, and developments of traditional treatment methods. This approach organically unifies the two medical systems in both theory and practice, achieving innovation in theoretical systems. This book is suitable for readers and references in the field of medical and health, including those engaged in teaching, research, and clinical practice.