A clinical handbook for practitioners of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) that provides quick and easy reference to the selection of herbs for treatment and their action alone and in combination. This is a handbook from two eminent teachers from the Nanjing College of Traditional Chinese Medicine who have between them accumulated over 60 years of clinical practice and teaching. They emphasise how to combine herbs and differentiate between single herbs and formulae depending on the treatment strategy adopted. It contains case histories illustrating how to adapt formulae in practice.
FREE Two-Day Shipping for students on millions of items. Learn more |
 Sell Back Your Copy for $4.05
Whether you buy it used on Amazon for $45.00 or somewhere else, you can sell it back through our Book Trade-In Program at the current price of $4.05.
Used Price$45.00
Trade-in Price$4.05
Price after
Trade-in$40.95 |
Book Description
Special Offers and Product Promotions
- Buy $50 in qualifying physical textbooks, get $5 in Amazon MP3 Credit. Here's how (restrictions apply)
Frequently Bought Together
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
More About the Author
Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
great differentiation!!,
By
This review is from: A Clinical Guide to Chinese Herbs and Formulae, 1e (Hardcover)
Although i am just a beginning student of Chinese Medicine, i really appreciated the clear and concise differentiations made between single herbs
and formulas. The preface states the book has five parts: "Part 1 points out similarities and differences between herbs of similar nature or action. Part 2 describes combinations of two or more herbs that commonly appear as a group within larger formulae Part 3 analyzes individual herbs according to their actions on the Zang Fu Part 4 sets forth guiding principles in formulating prescriptions according to the various treatment methods, and compares formulae with in each such category. Part 5 deals with specific pathological patterns or disease, demonstrating the clinical use of formulae with case histories." Every group of herbs comes with an illustration of anatomical figures with single herbs placed on the area of the body that it acts upon. There are also charts of differentiations for single herbs and charts of comparision of the formulae. As a beginner these were all of a great help to me.
5.0 out of 5 stars
An excellent book within its context,
This review is from: A Clinical Guide to Chinese Herbs and Formulae, 1e (Hardcover)
This book provides an excellent adjunct resource to build on core Chinese herbology texts such as the Bensky et al. books or Chen & Chen. However, it will not be a good resource on herbs for people who are looking for an understanding of Chinese herb actions within a Western biomedical framework, and I see that several people who were looking for that panned this text. For Chinese herbs discussed in a pharmological and biomedical framework, as well as in traditional Chinese medical terms, the books by John & Tina Chen will be much more suitable. For students of Chinese herbology who seek to understand herbs in terms of their effects on Qi, Xue, Jing, etc., this book is great. It provides excellent comparisons to differentiate herbs within categories, as well as discussions of the effects of the flavors, natures, and so forth that are better than those in most other books. It also provides elegant information on topics often missed in formulas classes, such as the potential for causing trapped heat by using heavy bitter and cold herbs without combining them with light acrid herbs to provide an escape route for the heat. For those reviewers who criticized this book for not providing research data to back up claims about herb actions, I assure you (as a research scientist myself) that there are good reasons why it did not do so, if only because discussing the research support for Chinese herb use could take several volumes in its own right. Chinese medicine has its own framework of vocabulary that sounds extremely bogus to ears not accustomed to it (for example, the common cold is generally referred to as "a wind invasion"). This language makes sense within its own context as a functional model that makes valid predictions and provides guidelines for prescribing herbs even when the biomedical mechanisms of a disease are poorly understood, as with many autoimmune diseases. I admit that it sounds ridiculous when you're not used to it. There are many people in the field who are seeking to understand the correspondences between the traditional terminology and biomedical concepts, but that is not the purpose of this book, and it should not necessarily be criticized for failing to do something that, in my opinion, was never its intention.
1.0 out of 5 stars
for the scientifically ignorant,
By
This review is from: A Clinical Guide to Chinese Herbs and Formulae, 1e (Hardcover)
The merit of this book is in providing in a central location describing many traditional Chinese herbs and the ailments they claim to treat. Having said this, there is little else of merit. Much of the text describes unsubstantiated claims, at variance with the modern scientific understanding of human biology.
Maybe some of these herbs and treatments have true theraputic value. But the onus of proof is on their proponents. In the entire text, there is NO mention of any tests done to support the claims. Specifically, there is nothing about any double blind tests, which is the gold standard for assessing the merits of a herb or drug. The most that we get is some anecdotal comments about how such and such a herb produces such and such a purported benefit. A first year medical student could tell you that human responses vary widely between individuals. Some herb which might have a benign effect on one person could have adverse effects on others. That is why drug tests use as many patients as possible, and that is why double blind tests are even better, for a more objective assessment. The book is written for the scientifically ignorant.
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
|
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
