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Chinese Medicine: The Web That Has No Weaver by Ted J. Kaptchuk (recommended) 
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| Chinese Medicine: The Web That Has No Weaver by Ted J. Kaptchuk (recommended) |
Tracey Goulding
September 2005 |
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Kaptchuk's book was first published in the early 1980s at a time when
Traditional Chinese Medicine was less accepted than it is today.
His book soon became known as 'the' authoritative introduction to
Chinese medicine in the West. Yet two decades later, it still
remains the book recommended by many colleges teaching Chinese medicine
in the UK to anyone thinking of studying Chinese Medicine. It
provides the reader with a solid understanding of the origins, philosophy
and practice of Chinese medicine. There are extensive notes to each
chapter and appendices, which digress into some of the complexities
inherent in Chinese medicine. A highly recommended book for
new students of Chinese medicine, those wondering whether to study
the subject and others who are just curious and want to have some
understanding of this immensely fascinating subject. The Journal
of Traditional Acupuncture in their "rave" review of the book, commented
"[it has] something for practically everyone".
Contents (edited)
- Medicine East and West: Two Ways of Seeing, Two Ways of Thinking.
- The Fundamental Textures: Qi, Blood, Essence, Spirit and Fluids.
- The Organs of the Body: The Harmonious Landscape.
- The Meridians: The Warf and Woof.
- Origins of Disharmony: Stormy Weather.
- The Four Examinations: Signs and Symptoms.
- The Eight Principle Patterns: The Faces of Yin.
- The Patterns of the Human Landscape.
- Chinese Medicine is an Art.
- The Web that has no Weaver - and Mount Sinai.
Appendices
- The stages of disease: a series of clinical scenes.
- Yang Organs in Disharmony.
- Pulses revisited.
- The curious organs.
- The scientific encounter with the East Asian Medicine: efficacy and adverse effects.
- The five phases (Wu Xing).
- Historical Bibliography: Links in the Chain of Transmission.
- Selected Bibliography.
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