Medical Classics Gold Mirror - Key Methods for Treating in Plain Language (3rd Edition)

Author: Zhejiang College of Traditional Chinese Medicine
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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
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, concise and to the point, are easy to remember and widely favored by readers. The Essentials of Treatment for (Miscellaneous Diseases) is a part of it, primarily discussing over 40 acute and chronic internal medicine diseases in TCM, such as stroke, consumptive diseases, jaundice, and diabetes. The content covers various aspects of diseases, including etiology, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment. This colloquial interpretation focuses on translating the original text sentence by sentence, providing appropriate annotations for difficult terminology, and analyzing the pathogenesis, medical principles, clinical significance of each verse. For the articles with prescriptions, the analysis of prescription meanings, historical applications, and other relevant information is included. This makes the entire book systematic and complete in terms of theory, methods, prescriptions, and medications for clinical application, and it also includes some case studies to help readers understand and apply the knowledge. This book is widely suitable for beginners of TCM and grassroots clinical practitioners as a reference.