Health Preservation, Health Care, Health Prescription

Author: Yu Zhimin
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Publish Date: 2004-04-01
Features: This book is rich in content, offers a novel perspective, and features easy-to-understand language with concise and practical operational methods. It combines theoretical foundations with emphasis on clinical effectiveness, making it suitable as a rehabilitation guide for disease patients and a reading material for the general public. Through reading, readers can gain insights into health preservation, enhance their awareness of health maintenance and disease prevention knowledge, stay away from illness, and enjoy a healthy life. It also provides assistance for medical professionals, medical school students, and faculty. This book is a popular science publication introducing health care and prevention of common clinical diseases. It is divided into two parts. The first part provides a detailed introduction to the fundamental concepts of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) in prevention, health preservation, and health care. It systematically discusses the significance of TCM health preservation, the principles of TCM health preservation and prevention, and preventive measures for diseases, giving readers a macro understanding of the basic theories of TCM prevention, health preservation, and health care. Subsequently, it introduces key points of TCM health preservation and health care, focusing on hot topics in the field. It provides illustrative examples of health preservation and health care in summer, scientific dietary supplements in winter, and how dietary regulation should follow the principle of "regulating according to the season." To standardize dietary regulation for readers, this part also introduces the "Medicinal Food List" of "Medicinal and Edible Foods with the Same Origin," along with the functions, main indications, and practical small recipes for each herb, for reference, selection, and use.
The second part mainly introduces health care prescriptions for over 80 common diseases across various clinical disciplines. Diseases are primarily classified by system and specialty. For each disease, the introduction starts with an overview, briefly explaining the concept and characteristics of the disease. This is followed by a description of the etiology, pathogenesis, and main clinical manifestations. Non-prescription TCM and herbal treatments have their own special characteristics. Although they are non-prescription drugs, clinical application still requires syndrome differentiation. Therefore, this book provides a detailed introduction to TCM syndrome differentiation and drug selection, as well as other non-prescription treatments. The health care prescription section is the key and essence of the book. It discusses health care methods for common diseases from aspects such as the reasonable arrangement of daily life and living, appropriate and taboo dietary adjustments, recommended medicinal diets, the development of medical physical exercises, the selection of self-care therapies, and precautions. This allows relevant readers to choose targeted options based on their actual situations and needs, helping patients to complement self-care and rehabilitation therapies while receiving standard hospital treatment. By understanding dietary taboos and actively cooperating with doctors and hospitals, readers can achieve early recovery and enjoy the joys of life.