From Publishers Weekly
So-called "Chinese medicine," as this manual notes, is a systematic scientific discipline, not a grab bag of folk remedies. To combat the flu, a doctor might prescribe any of a dozen highly specific cures depending upon psychic and dynamic factors in the patient. Taking the reader through the rarefied esoterica of impulse points, pathways, function circles and acupuncture, the treatise explains how practitioners of this medical system predict the direction a disease will take and strengthen the individual's own capacity to restore vital energy. Since diagnosis is based directly on bodily functionswithout reference to organs, nerves or the bloodstreamChinese medicine perfectly complements Western practice, according to Porkert, founder of the International Society of Chinese Medicine, and Ullmann, a German journalist. Their suggestion that the Chinese system of preventive care could serve as a model for primary health care deserves scrutiny.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
This is a critical interpretation of traditional Chinese medicine by a noted German physician-sinologist. Porkert's rigorous analysis, treating philosophical, linguistic, medical, and historical topics, will appeal primarily to specialists in the field, to scholars generally, and to highly informed laypersons. (Vol. 1 of Liu Yanchi's The Essential Book of Traditional Chinese Medicine , LJ 3/1/88, will provide a more accessible introduction for many readers.) But Porkert's exposition is highly recommended for subject and university collections and for large public libraries. Judith Eannarino, George Washington U. Lib., Washington, D.C.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
