Traditional Chinese Medicine Diagnostics - (For TCM, Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine, and other related majors) (Revised Edition)

Author: Deng Tie-tao
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Publish Date: 2006-08-01
Features: With the passage of time and the changing of eras, the "Traditional Chinese Medicine Diagnosis" (Fifth Edition of the National TCM University Textbook) has already gone through more than 20 years of glorious journey. With the rapid development of modernization in TCM, China's TCM industry keeps pace with the times, explores new horizons, and showcases its unique charm. The characteristics, advantages, innovations, and improvements of TCM demonstrate the further prosperity of China's scientific and cultural undertakings in the 21st century, carrying forward the legacy while simultaneously playing a strong radiating role in aligning TCM with the international community and promoting it widely around the world. TCM is a treasure of the Chinese nation, and Traditional Chinese Medicine Diagnosis is one of the essence of TCM. Since the 1980s, this book has been continuously used and highly praised by students, scholars, and educators both domestically and internationally. To further explore and enhance the classic and high-quality TCM diagnosis textbook, ensuring the synchronization of ancient and modern, inheritance and development, and exploration and innovation, we have revised, supplemented, and improved the "Fifth Edition" of "Traditional Chinese Medicine Diagnosis," making it rich in illustrations, vivid, and inspiring for learners, enthusiasts, and those interested, with profound enlightenment and clinical significance. "Traditional Chinese Medicine Diagnosis" includes five parts: Introduction, Four Examinations, Eight Principles, Syndrome Differentiation, Diagnosis and Case Studies.
Part I, Introduction, reviews the brief history of TCM diagnosis, points out the scope and principles, main content, learning requirements, and methods of TCM diagnosis. The second part discusses the basic skills and examination methods of the Four Examinations (Inspection, Listening & Smelling, Inquiring, and Palpation). The third and fourth parts, based on the Eight Principles and Syndrome Differentiation, employ various syndrome differentiation methods from different aspects and perspectives to deepen the clinical thinking and understanding of TCM diagnosis. The fifth part, Diagnosis and Case Studies, elaborates on the application of the Four Examinations and Syndrome Differentiation, as well as the characteristics, content, requirements, organization, and format of case studies. The appendix includes symptom differential diagnosis and selected original texts. At the end of the book, there is a color atlas of tongue diagnosis to enhance learners' perceptual understanding and comprehension of tongue diagnosis.