Medical Classics: Essentials of Treatise on Cold Damage (Colloquial Explanation) (3rd Edition)

Author: Department of Basic Theory of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
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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 learners of TCM. Especially, the essential techniques and key points of various specialties in it are concise, clear, and easy to remember, making them highly popular among readers. The Essential Techniques of Treatise on Cold Damage summarizes the main content of theory, methods, prescriptions, and medications in the Treatise on Cold Damage, as well as some later studies related to it, in the form of rhymes. The accompanying "Notes" not only explain the meaning of the rhymes but also incorporate insights from medical scholars on the Treatise on Cold Damage. As a result, The Essential Techniques has become a widely circulated supplementary reading material for studying the Treatise on Cold Damage since the Qing Dynasty. It holds significant reference value for learning and researching the Treatise on Cold Damage, guiding clinical practice, and laying a solid foundation in TCM. This book retains the original rhymes while adding an outline, annotations, colloquial explanations, and remarks. The outline highlights key points and resolves difficulties; the colloquial explanations translate the rhymes. The annotations absorb the original notes' meaning, while the remarks provide a disease mechanism analysis, exploration of medical principles, clinical significance discussion, prescription interpretation, introduction to historical applications, summary of modern research, and critiques of inappropriate statements. This ensures the book is systematic and complete in terms of theory, methods, prescriptions, and clinical application. Therefore, it is not only suitable for beginners of TCM and those learning the Treatise on Cold Damage, but also highly beneficial for practicing clinicians.