Medical Classics · Essential Methods for Treating in Plain Language (3rd Edition)

Author: Zhejiang College of Traditional Chinese Medicine
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: The Golden Mirror of Medicine was compiled by Wu Qian and others during the Qing Dynasty. It served as a textbook for studying Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) in the Qing era and remains an important reading material for modern TCM learners. Especially the Essentials of Treatment for Various Diseases, which is a part of it, concisely and clearly outlines the key points, making it easy to remember and widely popular among readers. The Essentials of Treatment for focuses on over 40 acute and chronic internal medicine diseases in TCM, such as stroke, consumptive diseases, jaundice, and diabetes. The content covers various aspects of these diseases, including etiology, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment. This colloquial interpretation provides a sentence-by-sentence translation of the original text, with appropriate annotations for difficult terminology. Additionally, it includes an analysis of the pathogenesis, medical principles, clinical significance of each verse, and for those with formulas, an analysis of the formula's meaning and historical applications. This makes the entire book systematic and comprehensive in terms of theory, methods, formulas, and medicinal applications, and includes selected case studies to aid readers in understanding and applying the knowledge. This book is widely suitable for beginners in TCM and grassroots clinical practitioners as a reference.