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Face Reading in Chinese Medicine

• 2nd Edition
• July 6, 2012
• Lillian Bridges
• English
• Hardback 978-0-7020-4314-7

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• eBook 978-0-7020-5192-0

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An exciting new, full-colour edition of Face Reading in Chinese Medicine featuring over 200 colour photographs and practical instructions on how to conduct a face reading! Face reading has been part of Traditional Chinese Medicine for many centuries, and Professor Lillian Bridges is a popular academic and international lecturer on the subject who gained her fascinating knowledge through her family line of Master Face Readers in China. Based on an understanding of the shapes, markings and features of a face, practitioners can learn about the health and life of a patient relating to the principles of Chinese medicine. In addition to understanding how the body's internal functions - physical, psychological and emotional - can be seen on a face, practitioners can also learn how to evaluate Shen to understand non-verbal expressions.Technical and detailed information is presented in an upbeat, insightful and highly readable manner. This was the first book to focus on the deeper aspects of face reading and diagnosis, this edition includes ancient Taoist knowledge regarding the Original Face and Facial Jing and Qi markers which have previously only been taught through the oral tradition.

Tratamiento del dolor con fitoterapia china y acupuntura

• 2nd Edition
• June 26, 2012
• Peilin Sun
• Spanish
• eBook 978-84-458-2400-9

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El objetivo de esta obra es abordar de manera profunda y eficaz las causas, el diagnóstico y el tratamiento de los principales tipos de dolor mediante acupuntura y fitoterapia china. Se trata así un tema de constante actualidad ya que el dolor se convierte en uno de los motivos de visita más frecuentes en las consultas de Medicina Tradicional China. Presenta importantes novedades, entre las que cabe mencionar las siguientes: inclusión de un nuevo capítulo sobre el tratamiento del dolor en niños, diversos capítulos dedicados a la revisión de las condiciones ginecológicas, presencia de la denominación occidental de las enfermedades e inclusión tanto de tratamientos de acupuntura como herbales. La obra está dirigida a profesionales y estudiantes de Acupuntura, Medicina Tradicional China, Farmacopea Tradicional China (Asignaturas: Acupuntura, Tratamiento de acupuntura, Farmacopea de la MTC, Medicina Interna de la MTC, Especialidades de la MTC).

Segmental Anatomy

• 1st Edition
• December 17, 2008
• Ingrid Wancura-Kampik
• English
• Paperback 978-0-7020-5042-8

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• eBook 978-3-437-59174-7

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Formidably illustrated and written, the correlations between spinal nerves and segments in skin, musclar system and bones as well as the projection areas of internal organs on the body surface area are deduced from the anatomy of the nervous system. These correlations between spinal nerves and the periphery of the body explain how acupuncture, neural, and manual therapies take effect . Great accessibility through: Full colour images Drawings that depict the correlations in detail Cearly structured layout facilitating the reading of this complex subject

Praxishandbuch Akupunktur

• 5th Edition
• January 30, 2012
• Gertrude Kubiena
• German
• eBook 978-3-437-59006-1

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Der schnelle, didaktisch gut aufbereitete Einstieg in die Akupunktur und chinesische Medizin. • Grundlagen und Krankheitsbilder kurz und übersichtlich dargestellt • Differenzierte Punktdiagnosen und Behandlungsschemata mit Abbildungen zur Lokalisation • Farbleitsystem für Meridiane und Punktesystem • Farbige Ausstattung für optimale Übersichtlichkeit Der Code im Buch schaltet zusätzliche Inhalte im Internet frei*: • Übersichtstabellen der besonderen Punkte zum Ausdrucken • Meridiane und Akupunkturpunkte in Versform lernen und memorieren: in über 40 Audiodateien liest Gertrude Kubiena ihre TCM-Verse. So lernen die TCM-Studenten in China besonders schwierige Zusammenhänge.

Integrating East Asian Medicine into Contemporary Healthcare

• 1st Edition
• October 24, 2011
• Volker Scheid + 1 more
• English
• eBook 978-0-7020-4836-4

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Traditional East Asian healthcare systems have moved rapidly from the fringes of healthcare systems in the West towards the centre over the past 50 years. This change of status for traditional medicines presents their practitioners with both opportunities and challenges as the focus shifts from one of opposition towards one of integration into biomedically dominated healthcare systems. Integrating East Asian Medicine into Contemporary Healthcare examines the opportunities and challenges of integrating East Asian medicine into Western healthcare systems from an interdisciplinary perspective. Volker Scheid and Hugh MacPherson bring together contributions from acknowledged experts from a number of different disciplines - including clinical researchers, Chinese Medicine practitioners, historians, medical anthropologists, experts in the social studies of science, technology and medicine - to examine and debate the impact of the evidence-based medicine movement on the ongoing modernization of East Asian medicines. The book considers the following questions: •What are the values, goals and ethics implicit within traditional East Asian medical practices? • What claims to effectiveness and safety are made by East Asian medical practices? •What is at stake in subjecting these medical practices to biomedical models of evaluation? • What constitutes best practice? How is it to be defined and measured? • What are the ideologies and politics behind the process of integration of East Asian medical practices into modern health care systems? • What can we learn from a variety of models of integration into contemporary healthcare?

Energy Medicine East and West

• 1st Edition
• May 31, 2011
• David F. Mayor + 1 more
• English
• Paperback 978-0-7020-3571-5

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• eBook 978-0-7020-4923-1

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Energy Medicine East and West: A Natural History of Qi provides a unique, comprehensive overview of Qi or bioenergy for students and practitioners of energy medicines, Chinese and Oriental Medicine, and all disciplines of Complementary and Integrative Medicine. Mayor and Micozzi start with a comparative historical account of the ancient concepts of Qi and vital energy before covering theories of Qi, a discussion of the organized therapeutic modalities based upon Qi and its applications to specific health and medical conditions. Contributions are included from international experts in the field. The book moves from anatomical and bioenergetic complementarity of Western vital energy and Eastern Qi, through convergence of perspectives and models to demonstrations of how the traditional therapies are being melded together in a new, original and creative synthesis. David Mayor and Marc Micozzi are experienced medical practitioners, authors and editors. David Mayor has been actively involved in bioenergy research, practice and publishing for over 30 years, and is author/editor of Electroacupuncture: A practical manual and resource (2007), as well as other acupuncture texts and studies. Marc Micozzi is Professor in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC. As author/editor of Fundamentals of Complementary & Alternative Medicine, 4E (2011), and 25 other books, he has been writing, editing and teaching on bioenergy, Qi and related topics for 20 years. Endorsements "This wonderful book has assembled some 25 authors expressing well a view of qi which entirely does justice to its nature. Meticulously referenced, it is a milestone to set beside Maciocias Foundations of Chinese Medicine and Deadmans Manual of Acupuncture. Here at last are the beginnings of a true science of qi...There is truly nothing like it in contemporary literature. Alone, it lays the foundation for the beginnings of a modern science of qi."Richard Bertschinger, Acupuncturist and translator, Somerset, UK. "This book offers a timely and thorough examination of the experience and nature of qi, including a series of fascinating philosophical discussions with a direct application to our patients. Required reading for acupuncture practitioners seeking to justify and clarify their clinical reasoning."Val Hopwood PhD FCSP, Physiotherapist, acupuncturist, researcher and educator; Course director, MSc Acupuncture, Coventry University, UK. "Over the last decade most books on Asian medicine paid tribute to the aura of evidence-based medicine – experience counted little, RCTs were convincing. This book, at last, returns to an old tradition of debate, opening up quite a few new horizons. Reading it, my striving for knowledge was married with enjoyment and happiness. This book made me happy!" Thomas Ots MD PhD, Medical acupuncturist specialising in psychiatry, Graz, Austria; Editor-in-Chief, Deutsche Zeitschrift für Akupunktur. "To simply review the chapter headings is to know the truly remarkable expanse of this book...a wonderful bridge between the mysteries of the East and the sciences of the West...well documented, well written, and enlarging both. Enlightening...nicely depicts outstanding advances in energy psychotherapeutics, thus ultimately helping to move forward the human condition."Maurie D Pressman MD, Emeritus Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA; Emeritus Chairman of Psychiatry, Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia PA; past President, International Society for the Study of Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine, Lafayette, CO, USA. "...a major advance in the study of qi and related forms of 'energy medicine,' both in and beyond the East Asian cultural context...bringing together such a wide range of scholars and practitioners, providing much the most serious and thorough overview of the area yet available in English."Professor Geoffrey Samuel, Director, Research Group on the Body, Health and Religion (BAHAR), Cardiff University, UK.

Obstetrics and Gynecology in Chinese Medicine

• 2nd Edition
• May 12, 2011
• Giovanni Maciocia
• English
• Hardback 978-0-443-10422-0

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• eBook 978-0-7020-4921-7

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New edition of the most comprehensive Chinese Medicine Obstetrics and Gynecology textbook in the English language World-renowned author and teacher Giovanni Maciocia gives a clear, detailed explanation of the physiology, pathology and aetiology of women's disorders in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and adapts these to Western conditions and patients. Seventy gynecological conditions are discussed in detail with consideration given to differentiation between conditions, the advised treatment using acupuncture and herbs, prevention and prognosis. Guidelines on lifestyle and use of the eight Extraordinary Vessels are provided, with case studies allowing easy application of theory to practice throughout. New for this edition: New attractive two-colour layout with book marks to ease navigationEndometriosis and its treatment now included and fully covered in a new chapter Infertility chapter includes recent research highlighting factors in infertility All prescriptions now removed from the text and attractively presented in three appendices: Patient Remedies, Prescriptions and Three Treasure Remedies "Obstetrics and Gynecology in Chinese Medicine is a paradigmatic work. It is tempered with reverence and innovation, meticulous archival attention and detailed modern clinical insight. When future generations look back at this work…they will find not only knowledge and wisdom but also reasons for inspiration and awe."From the Foreword to the first edition by Ted J. Kaptchuk, Associate Director, Centre for Alternative Medicine Research, Beth Israel Hospital; Instructor in Medicine, Harvard medical School, Boston, USA.

La psique en la medicina china

• 1st Edition
• March 8, 2011
• Giovanni Maciocia
• Spanish
• eBook 978-84-458-2262-3

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La presente obra estudia en profundidad el tratamiento de los trastornos mentales y emocionales mediante la acupuntura y la medicina herbal o fitoterapia. El autor analiza primero de la etiología, la patología y el diagnóstico de los trastornos mentales. Describe detalladamente la naturaleza y funciones de la Mente (Shen), del Alma Etérea (Hun), del Alma Corpórea (Po), del Intelecto (Yi) y de la Fuerza de Voluntad (Zhi) en la Medicina Tradicional China y posteriormente presenta en detalle el diagnóstico y el tratamiento para los trastornos psicológicos más comunes tanto con la acupuntura como fitoterapia chinas.  Así, se dedican capítulos específicos al tratamiento de enfermedades tales como la depresión, la ansiedad, el insomnio, la crisis de pánico, el trastorno bipolar y el trastorno por déficit de atención con hiperactividad. Se ilustra cada enfermedad con casos clínicos, extraídos de los 35 años de práctica profesional del autor, que facilitan la comprensión del amplio rango de diagnósticos y posibles tratamientos que el profesional puede llevar a cabo.  Entre las característica clave, cabe destacar un capítulo dedicado en su totalidad al estudio de las funciones de los puntos de acupuntura en el tratamiento de los trastornos mentales y emocionales. El libro, con un diseño de página en bicolor que facilita el acceso y navegación del texto, es de gran interés para los profesionales y estudiantes de Medicina Tradicional China.

Muscles and Meridians

• 1st Edition
• November 9, 2010
• Phillip Beach + 1 more
• English
• Paperback 978-0-7020-3109-0

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• eBook 978-0-7020-4869-2

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Muscles and Meridians is a unique book that breaks new conceptual ground in the realm of human movement. Firmly based in an understanding of evolutionary and developmental biology, this volume introduces some of the keys that open the way to an understanding of the Contractile Field (CF) model – a novel concept which promotes a fresh approach to exercise and represents a valuable means of understanding and treating musculoskeletal disorders. The CF model represents a whole-organism approach to an appreciation of human movement. The fundamental biomechanical architecture of vertebrates imposes patterns of movement on our spine, patterns that offer the keys needed to begin a more robust understanding of human movement. The CF model suggests that sense organs are embedded in fields of contractility, and that the musculature of the viscera and the role of the kidneys need to be incorporated in this attempt to develop such a model. Fields of contractility are defined, borders between fields are identified, and field interaction considered. The model also suggests a new assessment methodology: the Archetypal Postures. Many musculoskeletal aches and pains, such as back pain, are non-attributable to a standard tissue-related diagnosis. Rather we need to focus on the interrelationship of many named tissues via the emergence of postures that are deeply embedded in our evolution and childhood development. Archetypal Postures are essential to the ‘tune’ of the musculoskeletal system.By showing a pattern of correlation, the CF model also sheds light on the Chinese map of the meridians suggesting a theory that unravels the complexity of the ancient map which the modern biosciences have been unable to comprehend or identify. Muscles and Meridians presents an approach to musculoskeletal anatomy which will be widely applicable to all professionals who have an interest in human movement: physiotherapists, osteopathic physicians, osteopaths, chiropractors, acupuncturists, exercise scientists, manual therapists, and personal trainers.

Five Element Constitutional Acupuncture

• 2nd Edition
• October 18, 2010
• Angela Hicks + 2 more
• English
• Hardback 978-0-7020-3175-5

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This exciting new edition of Five Element Constitutional Acupuncture gives a clear, detailed, and accessible presentation of the main features of constitutional Five Element acupuncture. It covers the context and history of this form of acupuncture, as well as the relevant Chinese medicine theory. After examining the Elements themselves and the functions of the Organs, the book explores the basis of diagnosis in Five Element acupuncture, possible blocks to treatment and the treatment itself. It puts this style of treatment into the context of other styles of acupuncture treatment — especially Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) as it is used in the West today. Features The Five Elements referred to in the title are Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water. Gives a clear, detailed and accessible presentation of the main features of Five Element Constitutional Acupuncture treatment. Covers the context and history of this form of acupuncture, as well as the relevant Chinese medicine theory. Includes an unambiguous description of the principle aspects of diagnosis within a system, ironing out inconsistencies often present in discussions of these aspects. This edition has been thoroughly revised throughout. Quotes from the foreword to the first edition by Peter Eckman, San Francisco: "...the authors have shown how their approach can even integrate with TCM findings to treat patients more completely and rapidly. As the case histories illustrate, Five Element Constitutional Acupuncture is a style of practice that is second to none, and this innovative text is an excellent resource for learning it"