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Traditional Chinese Medicine: Understanding Its Principle and Practices

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Liao Yuqun, born in 1953, graduated from Beijing Second Medical College in 1981, and now a researcher and director of the Institute for the History of Natural Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, as well as vice-president of the Chinese Society of History of Science and Technology. His academic works include The Qihuang Medical Science, The Translation of Yellow Emperor's Canon of Difficulties in Modern Chinese, Ayurveda: Traditional Indian Medicine, Imagery Thinking of Traditional Chinese Medicine, etc.

Table of Contents
Foreword 1
Approach to Traditional Chinese Medicine 3
Recognition of TCM 4
The Thinking Style of TCM 7
The Formation and Variation of Tradition 12
Understanding TCM 17
The Classics of TCM 21
Huang Di Nei Jing (Yellow Emperor's Canon of Medicine) 23
Huang Di Ba Shi Yi Nan Jing (Yellow Emperor's Canon On Eighty-One Difficult Issues) 24
Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing (Agriculture God's Canon of Materia Medica) 26Shang Han Za Bing Lun (Treatise on Cold Diseases and Miscellaneous Diseases) 27
Compilation of Book and Development into Canon 29Basic Theory of TCM 33The Theories of Yin-Yang and Wu Xing 34
Viscera and Their Manifestations 40
Channels and Collaterals 43
Etiology 49
Diagnostics 53
Internal and External Therapies of TCM 59
Acupuncture and Moxibustion 60
Prescriptions 64
Treatment of Both the Internal and the External 70
Knowledge of Materia Medica 73
Establishment of the Theory of Materia Medica 74
Important Books on Materia Medica 75
Pharmacological Studies 81
Drug Administration and Market 82
Processing of Herbs 86
Story about Ginseng 88
Stories about Famous Doctors in History 93
Bian Que 94
Zhang Zhongjing and Hua Tuo 95
Wang Shuhe and Huang Fumi 98
Sun Simiao 100
The Four Great Schools in the Jin and Yuan Dynasties 101
Zhang Jingyue 104
Ye Tianshi 105
Wang Qingren 108
TCM and Life Cultivation 111
Life Cultivation in the Four Seasons 112
Integration of Food and Medicines 115
Sports and Health 118
Emotions and Diseases 120
Inheritance and Development of Modern TCM 123
To Establish a Standard System for TCM 124
Development and Innovation of TCM in Clinical Use 126
To Integrate TCM with Western Medicine and Encourage the Modernization of TCM 128
TCM Going to the World 130
Appendix: Chronological Table of the Chinese Dynasties 132
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