COMPLETE BOOK OF CHINESE MEDICINE

Wong Kiew Kit

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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 Diseas
  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