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CONTENTS
PREFACE
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- WISDOM FROM PAST MASTERS
- ( World Medicine in Classical Times )
- Paleomedicine and Primitive Medicine
- Ancient Egyptian and Indian Medicine
- Medicine of other Ancient Civilizations
- Ancient Greek Medicine
- Alexandrian and Roman Era
- The Middle Age
- THEY LET US LIVE HEALTHIER, LONGER LIVES
- ( Medicine from Renaissance to Modem Time )
- The Renaissance
- The 17th and 18th Centuries
- The 19th Century
- The 20th Century
- FROM ACUPUNCTURE TO BODHIDHARMA
- ( History of Chinese Medicine to Tang Dynasty )
- World's Longest Successful Medical System
- Prehistoric Medicine
- Xia and Shang Dynasties
- The Classical Age of Zhou
- The Golden Age of the Han and the Tang
- INSPIRATION AND HOPE FROM CHINESE MASTERS
- ( Chinese Medicine Since the Song Dynasty )
- Medical Achievements Anticipating the West
- Benefiting from Their Experience
- The Modem Period
- Dark Age and Renaissance
- TWO ASPECTS OF ONE REALITY
- ( Yin-Yang in Chinese Medicine )
- Overcoming Preliminary Difficulties
- The Concept of Yin-Yang
- Inter-Dependency and Inter-Changeability
- Harmony of Yin-Yang
- Yin Deficiency and Yang Deficiency
- Conventional Use of Yin and Yang
- Holistic Approach of Chinese Medicine
- ARCHETYPICAL INTERACTIONS OF MYRIAD PHENOMENA
- ( The Five Elemental Processes )
- Archetypical Processes, Not Ingredients
- Inter-Creativity of the Five Processes
- Inter-Creativity and Inter-Destructivity
- Extraordinary Reaction and Mutual Correspondences
- Harmony via the Correspondences
- Applying the Processes in Medicine
- Treating Psychosomatic and Psychiatric Diseases
- MAN'S INTERNAL COSMOS
- ( Chinese Anatomy and Physiology )
- Organs for Storage and for Transformation
- Anatomy and Physiology from another Perspective
- The Emperor and his Ministers
- The General, the Judge and the Quartermasters
- Nutrient and Energy, Work and Waterways
- Extraordinary Organs
- LIFE IS A MEANINGFUL EXCHANGE OF ENERGY
- ( Qi in Chinese Medicine )
- The Amazing Wisdom of the Ancient Chinese
- What the Classic Says about Energy
- Different Types of Energy
- The Theory of Meridians
- Channels, Collaterals and Extensions
- THE UNIVERSE INSIDE YOU
- ( Network of Energy Flow )
- Universal Energy Flow
- The Twelve Primary Meridians
- Lung and Colon Meridians
- Stomach and Spleen Meridians
- Heart and Small Intestine Meridians
- Urinary Bladder and Kidney Meridians
- Pericardium and Triple Warmer Meridians
- Gall Bladder and Liver Meridians
- Lakes and Seas of Energy
- DISCOVERING SEVEN EMOTIONS AND SIX EVILS
- ( The Principles of Chinese Pathology )
- Different Philosophical Perspectives
- A Brave Attempt?
- Internal Causes of Seven Emotions
- External Causes of Six Evils
- A New Way of Viewing Disease
- Neither-Intemal-Nor-Extemal Causes
- A Challenge for the Brave
- WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE PATIENT, NOT THE DISEASE
- ( The Principles of Chinese Diagnosis )
- The Chinese Perspective
- Eight Diagnostic Principles
- Four Diagnostic Methods
- Viewing
- Listening and Smelling
- Asking
- Feeling
- GETTING TO KNOW THE PATIENT BETTER
- ( Classifying Diseases According to Symptoms )
- Classification of Illness
- Six Syndromes
- Three Levels
- Four Stages
- Classification According to Internal Organs
- Let's Diagnose a Patient
- TREATING THE PATIENT, NOT THE ILLNESS
- ( The Principles of Chinese Therapeutics )
- Curing the Patient as a Whole Person
- Prescribing Therapeutics According to Illness
- The Battle Between Goodness and Evil
- The Concept of Branch-Root
- The Eight Techniques
- Various Therapeutic Methods in Chinese Medicine
- GINSENG, CINNAMON BARK AND REINDEER'S HORN
- ( Chinese Pharmacology and Herbalism )
- Military Strategy and Poetry
- Basic Principles of Chinese Pharmacology
- Yin-Yang and Five Elemental Processes
- Seven Modes of Medical Prescriptions
- Brief Glimpses of Chinese Pharmacology
- Ren Sheng ( Radix Ginseng )
- Yuan Zhi ( Polygala tenuifolia wild )
- Huang Lian
- PLANNING AND FIGHTING THE BATTLE
- ( Strategies and Tactics in Chinese Herbal Medicine )
- Medicinal Recipe as Unit of Medication
- Structure of a Medicinal recipe
- Seven Strategies in Prescribing Medicine
- Twelve Tactics to Restore Health
- Examples of Famous Medicinal recipes
- Ma Huang Decoction
- Fragrant Bolus of Su He
- Four Gentlemen Decoction
- Hopeful Possibilities
- A CUP, A COIN AND A SLAB OF STONE
- ( Chinese External Medicine )
- External Medicine for Internal Illness
- Serious Injury from Internal Force
- External Application
- Heat Therapies
- Medication through Orifices
- Some Extraordinary Chinese Methods
- Medicine without Medicine
- INJURIES FROM FALLS AND HITS
- ( Introduction to Chinese Traumatology )
- Traumatology and Chinese Kungfu
- Classifications of Traumatology
- Principles of Traumatological Treatment
- Internal Methods of Traumatology
- Harmony at the Middle Stage
- Nourishment at the Concluding Stage
- TREATING AN INJURY FROM DIFFERENT ANGLES
- ( Various Methods of Traumatological Treatment )
- Holistic Treatment of the Patient
- External Methods of Traumatology
- Eight Techniques of Manipulation
- Physiotherapy in Traumatology
- Repertoire of the Traumatologist
- Examples of Medicinal Recipes
- Tou Ren Decoction
- Activating Meridians Pills
- Powder for Reducing Swelling
- Medicinal Wine for Activating Blood Flow
- Treating a Traumatological Patient
- THE MAGICAL NEEDLE OF CHINESE MEDICINE
- ( Introduction to Acupuncture )
- Ancient Wisdom in Acupuncture
- Some Startling Modem Accomplishments
- How Does Acupuncture Work?
- Diagnostic Methods in Acupuncture
- Therapeutic Functions of Energy Points
- Baihui
- Zhongwan
- Neiguan
- Sanyinjiao
- Theory of Healing
- MANIPULATING ENERGY FLOW
- ( Principles and Methods of Acupuncture )
- Hurricane Inside Our Body
- Principles of Energy Point Selection
- Far From the Disease Site
- The Principle of Opposites
- Main Manipulative Techniques
- Enhancing and Cleansing Energy
- Other Needles and Other Techniques
- Treating the Patient, not the Diseas
- HEALING WITH FINGERS - AND WITH NOTHING ELSE!
- ( Chinese Massage Therapy )
- Your Healing Fingers
- How Does Massage Therapy Cure Illness?
- Thirty Techniques in Massage Therapy
- Enhancing, Cleansing or Even Effects
- Application of Massage Therapy
- DANCE OF HEALTH AND LONGEVITY
- ( Health Exercises and Preventive Medicine )
- Medicine or Health?
- Different Types of Health Exercises
- Chinese Physiotherapy
- Incredible Qigong Exercise
- The Five-Animal Play
- THE ART OF ENERGY AND VITALITY
- ( Introduction to Qigong and Qigong Therapy )
- The Wonders of Qigong
- Yin-Yang Harmony in Qigong
- Qigong Therapy and Infectious Diseases
- Qigong and Organic Diseases
- Thematic and Holistic Approaches
- Medical Qigong Exercises
- CANCER CAN BE CURED!
- ( Cosmic Energy and Mind in Healing )
- Treat the Patient, Not his Cells
- Basic Information Regarding the Cell
- Theory on the Cause of Cancer
- Dissatisfaction over Conventional Treatments
- How Qigong Can Cure Cancer
- Some Wonderful Qigong Exercises
- Proposal for the Courageous
- UNITY OF ESSENCE, ENERGY AND SPIRIT
- ( Basic Concepts in Chinese Psychiatry and Neurology )
- Unity of Mind and Body in Chinese Medicine
- Weaknesses in Western Psychiatry
- Basic Concepts in Chinese Psychiatry
- Etiology of Psychiatric and Neurological Disorders
- DISEASES CAN BE CURED IN MANY WAYS
- ( Treatments for Psychiatric and Neurological Disorders )
- Difference between Chinese and Western Approaches
- Therapeutic Techniques of the Heart
- Chinese Approaches in Diagnosis and Treatment
- Herbal Medicine for Manic-Depressive Psychosis
- Acupuncture for Schizophrenia
- Massage Therapy for Hemiplegia
- Qigong Therapy for Epilepsy
- Curing Depressive Psychosis and Phobia
- PATH OF GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT
- ( Meditation in Medicine )
- Man as a Unity of Essence, Energy and Spirit
- Spirituality is Universal
- Spiritual Illness and Spiritual Health
- Holistic Health and Spiritual Realization
- Achieving Mental and Spiritual Health
- Using the Mind or Spirit in Healing
- TOWARDS HOLISTIC HEALTH
- ( Possible Chinese Contribution to the West )
- Strength and Weakness of Western Medicine
- Is Chinese Medicine Primitive and Unscientific?
- Rich Body of Empirical Knowledge
- Medical Principles and Theories
- Extensive Range of Therapeutic Techniques
Total Pages: 370