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Author:   Z'ev Rosenberg ,  Ken Rose ,  Dr Sabine Wilms ,  Blair Thornley
Publisher:   Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Imprint:   Singing Dragon
Dimensions:   Width: 15.00cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 22.80cm
Weight:   0.280kg
ISBN:  

9781848193482

ISBN 10:   1848193483
Pages:   184
Publication Date:   21 March 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Praise for Returning to the Source. Dedication. Foreword by Sabine Wilms. Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. Philosophy and medical education: The missing piece. 2. Ecological medicine: The heart of the Su wen medical philosophy. 3. Chinese medicine and the internal pharmacy: The body/mind's self healing tools and substances. 4. The Picasso Principle: Developing multivalent diagnostic acumen. 5. The technician and scholar physician. 6. Thermodynamics and autoimmune disease: Essential principles of treatment. 7. Mai xiang ??/Pulse image: The core of Chinese medical diagnosis. 8. Zang xiang ??/Visceral manifestation: The core of Chinese medical diagnostic systems. 9. The perfect storm: An approach to time in Chinese medicine. 10. Gan ying ??/Resonance: An essential principle of classical Chinese medicine. 11. Case histories. Afterword by Ken Rose. Appendix I: Drugs and their effects on the pulse. Appendix II: The importance of terminology and language in grasping Chinese medicine. Appendix III: Resources for learning medical Chinese language. Appendix IV: Pulse maps from classical texts and physicians' schools. Appendix V: Abdominal Algorithms/Qualities of Palpation. Appendix VI: Nan jing 18 pulse model. Glossary of terms and classical texts. References.

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Spiced up liberally with enlightening quotations from Chinese medical literature ... This book is a powerful distillation of the key messages from the ancient Chinese medical classics, as relevant today as they were two thousand years ago. -- from the foreword, by Dr Sabine Wilms An invaluable encouragement to budding practitioners and seasoned experts alike. -- Arnaud Versluys, PhD, MD (China), LAc, Director, Institute of Classics in East Asian Medicine

An invaluable encouragement to budding practitioners and seasoned experts alike. -- Arnaud Versluys, PhD, MD (China), LAc, Director, Institute of Classics in East Asian Medicine Spiced up liberally with enlightening quotations from Chinese medical literature ... This book is a powerful distillation of the key messages from the ancient Chinese medical classics, as relevant today as they were two thousand years ago. -- from the foreword, by Sabine Wilms, PhD

An invaluable encouragement to budding practitioners and seasoned experts alike. -- Arnaud Versluys, PhD, MD (China), LAc, Director, Institute of Classics in East Asian Medicine Spiced up liberally with enlightening quotations from Chinese medical literature ... This book is a powerful distillation of the key messages from the ancient Chinese medical classics, as relevant today as they were two thousand years ago. -- from the foreword, by Dr Sabine Wilms

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Z'ev Rosenberg LAc is Chair Emeritus of Pacific College of Oriental Medicine, San Diego. In private practice since 1983, he is recognised as one of the first generation of practitioners of TCM in the US.

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