Meridian therapy is to treat the symptoms and syndromes of meridians by the points on the meridians involved, and the selection of treatment points is based upon the distribution and inter-relationships of meridians. Syndromes of meridians form the major contents of meridian therapy, among which are the syndromes of twelve master meridians, the eight meridian syndromes, and the linking meridian syndromes. When the symptom of a meridian involes only one meridian, the points on that meridian may be selected for treatment. When the symptom involves two or more meridians, the points on those...

(1). This textbook incorporates 356 Chinese herbal formulae as selected by the Teaching Committee of Chinese Herbal Formulae in China, including 208 Chinese Herbal Formulae for the TCM Licensing Examination in the Province of British Columbia, Canada (2). The first five chapters discuss the general aspects of herbal formulae in great detail, including formulae and treatment methods, classifications and compositions, forms and methods of taking a formula, etc. (4). Special attention is paid to source and affiliated formulae; formula applications; analysis of formulae into king, minister,...

Terminology is a word used particiularly in medicine. Gastritis as medical terminology means an inflammation of the stomach. Terminology of traditional Chinese medicine is the systems of terms belonging or peculiar to traditional Chinese medicine. It is the set of special words and expressions used in connection with traditional Chinese medicine.

In order to treat patients successfully, a practicing doctor must know three essential things: first, the nature of the patient's physical conditions, which refers to their body types; second, the nature of the disease under treatment, which refer to the differentiation regarding syndromes of diseases; third, the nature of therapeutic agents in use, which refer to the therapeutic effects of formulas, herbs, acupuncture points, and foods, etc. Historically speaking, before Yellow Emperor's Classics was published the documents listed over 50 symptoms and diseases without syndromes. In Yellow...

In order to illustrate fully how an acupuncturist may make use of this manual in clinical practice, we will use the following actual clinical cases taken from established Chinese medical journals: Clinical Case No.1 (from Chinese Medical Journal July '59) Name of patient: Mr. Zhong. Age:42. Sex: male. Symptoms: pain in the throat, pain on swallowing with some difficulty in swallowing, light fever with fear of cold. Chinese diagnosis: hot lungs and wind-heat. Treatment: to sedate heat and produce fluids. Clinical Case No.2 (from New Chinese Medical journal, 1980) Symptoms: diagnosed in Western...