Ancient Herbs, Modern Medicine

The best of Eastern and Western medicine in an integrative healing system for the mind, body, and spirit.

Now, for the first time, a Western physician and a doctor of Oriental medicine combine the unparalleled technological advances of the West with the unmatched wisdom and healing touch Chinese herbal medicine provides for many diseases and conditions that elude modern medicine. Ancient Herbs, Modern Medicine demonstrates the many important, highly effective ways Chinese medicine and Western medicine can complement each other in treating everything from allergies and insomnia to mental illness and cancer. This accessible, comprehensive guide offers many informative and enlightening case studies and up-to-the-minute information on:

• How integrative medicine combines the best of Western pharmacology and Eastern herbology

• How integrative medicine helps fight the diseases and illnesses of our time, including allergies, asthma, and chronic fatigue syndrome, and eases and even reverses symptoms of arthritis, diabetes, depression, osteoporosis, AIDS, heart disease, and cancer--often without side effects

• How Chinese medicine can help you recognize signs before an illness
becomes a crisis

• The importance of Western techniques in diagnosing serious diseases

• Why Chinese medicine offers the most effective treatment for many chronic/recurrent illnesses

• Restoring essential balance to the Five Energetic Systems--the Heart, Lung, Spleen, Liver, and Kidney Energies

• The Eight Strategies of Herbal Therapy--how herbs work in your body

Plus illuminating discussions of the basic principles of Chinese medicine, as well as food remedy recipes, diagrams, glossaries of medical terms and herbs, resource listings, and much more to help you tailor an integrative health regimen that is right for you.

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Title of ebook: Ancient Herbs, Modern Medicine
ISBN: 9780307481498
parent-ISBN: 9780553381184
Publisher: Bantam Books
Pages: 496
Published: 12-2008
Released online for download: 12-16-2008
Author of eBook: Miller, Glenn Md
Author of eBook: Han, Henry Omd

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Ancient Herbs, Modern Medicine

Improving Your Health by Combining Chinese Herbal Medicine and Western Medicine
PART ONE

Understanding the Basics of Chinese Medicine

Chapter 1

Chinese and Western Medicines, Past and Present

How these medicines evolved in different directions and how they can come together

When Wang Qingren, a doctor of Chinese medicine, attended public executions in 1797, tagging along to the gravesites, then returning in the shadow of night to perform autopsies, his clandestine activities served an honorable purpose. In the early seventeenth century an Italian explorer and missionary had brought into China the book Method of the West, which had provided the first glimpse into Western medicine.

After that, Western medical literature was further introduced into China via Christian missionaries. Performing autopsies helped Dr. Wang verify some of the knowledge of anatomy that he had learned from his reading. Unlike his Western counterparts of that era who freely attended gross-anatomy classes, Dr. Wang was forced to work under a cloak of secrecy because of the Chinese cultural vene ... read full excerpt from: Ancient Herbs, Modern Medicine ebook

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