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CONTENTS

PREFACE

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

1 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

2 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

3 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

4 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

5 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

6 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

7 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

8 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

9 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

10 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

11 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

12 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

13 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

14 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

15 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

16 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

17 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

18 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

19 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

20 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 Disease

21 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

22 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

23 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

24 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

25 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

26 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

27 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

28 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

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