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Informationen zum Autor Giovanni Maciocia is one of the most highly-regarded and respected authors and lecturers in the West. He is Visiting Associate Professor at the Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and has many years of experience in teaching and practice. Giovanni trained initially in the UK and then in China! learned Chinese to be able to study from original Chinese texts! and was one of the first practitioners and authors to introduce Chinese medicine in a clear and accessible way to a Western student audience. Giovanni Maciocia has written other best-selling books under the Elsevier Churchill Livingstone imprint - The Practice of Chinese Medicine: The Treatment of Diseases with Acupuncture and Chinese Herbs! 2e (ISBN 978-0443074905)! Diagnosis in Chinese Medicine: A Comprehensive Guide! 1e (ISBN 9780443064487)! The Channels of Acupuncture: Clinical Use of the Secondary Channels and Eight Extraordinary Vessels! 1e (ISBN 9780443074912)! The Psyche in Chinese Medicine: Treatment of Emotional and Mental Disharmonies with Acupuncture and Chinese Herbs! 1e (ISBN 9780702029882)! and Obstetrics and Gynecology in Chinese Medicine! 2e (ISBN 9780443104220). Klappentext The new edition of this popular clinical text describes the application of traditional Chinese medical theory to the diagnosis and treatment of up to 48 diseases, conditions and disorders. In addition to the existing 34 covered in the first edition, 14 new conditions and symptoms have been added, and these include common, chronic and acute conditions which clinicians may see in their practice. Each chapter contains: aetiology and pathology differential diagnosis according to TCM selection of treatments with acupuncture and herbs, with explanation of choices case studies for illustration summary of Western differential diagnosis discussion of prognosis and prevention This book again brings the enormous wealth of the author's experience, and his insights in applying TCM medicine to a Western context, to the support of all clinicians whatever their own range of experiences Zusammenfassung Describes the application of traditional Chinese medical theory to the diagnosis and treatment of 48 diseases! conditions and disorders. This title contains: aetiology and pathology; differential diagnosis according to TCM; and! selection of treatments with acupuncture and herbs! with explanation of choices and case studies for illustration. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. HEADACHES 2. DIZZINESS 3. BREATHLESSNESS 4. WHEEZING 5. ASTHMA 6. ALLERGIC RHINITIS 7. SINUSITIS 8. COUGH 9. THE PSYCHE IN CHINESE MEDICINE 10. THE EMOTIONS 11. AETIOLOGY OF MENTAL-EMOTIONAL PROBLEMS 12. DIAGNOSIS OF MENTAL-EMOTIONAL PROBLEMS 13. DEPRESSION 14. ANXIETY 15. INSOMNIA 16. PATTERNS IN MENTAL-EMOTIONAL PROBLEMS AND THEIR TREATMENT WITH HERBAL MEDICINE AND ACUPUNCTURE 17. TINNITUS 18. GOITRE (THYROID PROBLEMS) 19. HYPERTENSION 20. TIREDNESS 21. CHEST PAINFUL OBSTRUCTION SYNDROME 22. EPIGASTRIC PAIN 23. NAUSEA/VOMITING 24. ACID REFLUX 25. MOUTH ULCERS 26. HYPOCHONDRIAL PAIN 27. ABDOMINAL PAIN 28. ABDOMINAL MASSES 29. DIARRHOEA 30. CONSTIPATION 31. URINARY SYNDROME 32. ENURESIS AND INCONTINENCE 33. URINARY RETENTION 34. INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS 35. BENIGN PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA 36. PROSTATITIS 37. OEDEMA 38. PAINFUL OBSTRUCTION SYNDROME 39. LOWER BACK-ACHE 40. FIBROMYALGIA 41. CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME 42. PARKINSON'S DISEASE 43. WIND-STROKE 44. ATROPHY SYNDROME 45. MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS 46. BLEEDING 47. ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION 48. COMMON COLD AND INFLUENZA APPENDIX 1. IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS ACCORDING TO THE SIX STAGES APPENDIX 2. IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS ACCORDING TO THE FOUR LEVELS APPENDIX 3. IDENTIFICATION OF PATTERNS ACCORDING TO THE THREE BURNERS APPENDIX 4. LIST OF PRESCRIPTIONS APPENDIX 5. ACUPUNCTURE POINTS FOR MENTAL-EMOTIONAL PROBLEMS GLOSSARY BIBLIOGRAPHY CHIN...
