Clinical Guide to Medical Cases

Author: Ye Tianshi (Qing Dynasty) / Country: Mainland China
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Publishing Date: 2006-01-01
Features: Clinical Guide to Medical Cases is a widely circulated and highly influential classic of TCM case studies. Its original author was the renowned TCM physician Ye Tianshi of the Qing Dynasty, later compiled and organized by his disciples, such as Hua Xiuyun. The Clinical Guide to Medical Cases consists of ten volumes. Volumes 1 to 8 primarily focus on medical cases of internal diseases, supplemented by cases from external medicine and five-sense organs. Volumes 9 and 10 are dedicated to gynecological and pediatric cases, respectively. The entire book is organized into eighty-nine categories, describing eighty-six types of symptoms and signs. Each category is indexed by disease and symptom, presenting concise and insightful case studies that strike the mark. It offers profound academic insights and serves as great inspiration for future learners. At the end of each category, there is an additional essay summarizing the key points of diagnosis and treatment, written by Ye’s disciples. Clinical Guide to Medical Cases fully reflects Ye Tianshi’s academic strengths: meticulous syndrome differentiation, appropriate treatment principles, precise prescriptions, and flexible medication use. Most of the cases in the book are clinically practical, with the descriptions of warm disease cases even becoming a blueprint for later generations of physicians when compiling specialized works on warm diseases. This edition is based on the Qing Qianlong 33rd-year edition of the Health Hall printing, with a thorough reproofing of the entire text. A preface has been added, and an index of disease and symptom names, as well as an index of prescriptions, is appended at the end, making it more suitable for modern TCM clinical practitioners to read and use.