Medical Classics: Essentials of Heart Method for Miscellaneous Diseases - Plain Language Explanation (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 essential methods and key points for various specialties in the book are concise, to the point, easy to remember, and widely popular among readers. "Essentials of Methods for Treating" 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 mainly provides sentence-by-sentence translation of the original text, with appropriate annotations for difficult terminology. Additionally, it includes pathogenesis analysis, medical principle elucidation, clinical significance exploration, and formula analysis for those with prescriptions, as well as historical application introductions. This makes the entire book systematic and complete in terms of theory, methods, formulas, and medicinal applications, and it also includes some case studies to help readers understand and apply the knowledge. This book is widely suitable for beginners in TCM and grassroots clinical practitioners as a reference.