This is the 1st workbook ever written specifically to help acupuncturists and practitioners of Chiense medicine to directly access the Chinese medical literature in Chinese. Conversational and easy to follow, the author shares all the "quick & dirty" methods he's used to teach himself. You can begin translating modern medical Chinese within hourse! You wil learn: how to look up a Chinese character in a dictionary; how to interpret characters once you've found them; how to use quick "cheat-sheets" for identifying acupuncture point names, medicinals, formulas, and commonly used medical words and phrases; how to purchase medical books and journals by mail; what to translate and what not to as a beginner. The book is wire-bound for ease of use.
Bob Flaws is the most prolific writer on Chinese medicine in the English language. He is author, translator, or editor of over 80 books on Chinese medicine and scores of articles published in both professional journals and the popular press. Among his other credits, Bob is a past president and lifetime fellow of the Acupuncture Association of Colorado, a fellow and director of the National Academy of Acupuncture & Oriental Medicine as well as a past editor of that association's quarterly journal, a founder of the Council of Oriental Medical Publishers, and the founder of Blue Poppy Enterprises. Bob is also the co-author and co-director of an NIH-funded research project working with AIDS-related peripheral neuropathy.
