Integrating Western and Chinese Medicine
A Handbook for Practitioners

 

Author(s): Zhang Junwen, Bai Yongquan, Chen Longshum

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Summary: Traditional Chinese and Western medicines each has its own advantages and disadvantages.  The combined therapy described in this book are based on the scientific approaches and modern knowledge of Western medicine in examination, diagnosis and treatment and the scientifically proven traditional Chinese medical holist concept of veiwing various parts of the human body as an organic whole and the therapies such as herbs, acupuncture, cupping, point-injection, etc.

     The management of the thirty-nine diseases described in the fourteen chapters of the book is the creative and effective results of the authors' clinical research and practice, covering a wide range of diseases of different systems of the human body with unique therapies that surpass those of either Western of traditional Chinese medicine and can satisfactorily cure certain illnesses which can't be cured by one of the other medicine alone.

     In short, this book is suitable for all clinicians who wish to enrich themselves with the knowledge of the combined medicines.

Table of Contents:

Chapter One: Diseases of the Respiratory System

     Acute Upper Respiratory Infection, Chronic Bronchitis, Bronchial Asthma, Pneumococcal 

     Pneumonia

Chapter Two:  Diseases of the Heart and Blood 

     Angina Pectoris. Pulseless Disease, Thrombophlebitis of the Superficial 

     Veins, Thromboangitis Obliterans

Chapter Three:  Disease of the Alimentary Tract

     Chronic Gastritis, Duodenal Ulcer, Diarrhea, Nonspecific Ulcerative Colitis, Viral 

     Hepatitis, Chronic Hepatitis, Cirrhosis, Cholecystitis and Cholelithhiasis

Chapter four: Diseases of the Urinary Tract 

     Acute Glomerulonephritis, Infection of the Urinary Tract, Nephrolithasis

Chapter Five: Blood Diseases

     Aplastic Anemia, Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria, Idiopathic 

     Thrombcytopenic Purpura

Chapter Six: Endocrine Disease

     Hyperthyroidism,

Chapter  Seven : Metabolic Disorders

     Diabetes Mellitus

Chapter Eight: Joint Disorders

     Rheumatic Fever

Chapter Nine: Disease of Gynecology

     Dysfunctional Uterine Bleeding, Leukorrhea, Premenstrual Syndrome

Chapter Ten: Diseases of the Skin

     Urticaria and Angioedema, Furunculosis (Boils) and Carbuncles

Chapter Eleven: Diseases of the Eyes, Ears, Nose, and Throat

     Conjunctivitis, Epistaxis, Simple Pharngitis

Chapter Twelve: Stomatologic Diseases

     Aphthous Ulcer

Chapter Thirteen: Diseases of the Nervous System

     Peripheral Facial Paralysis, Viral Encephalitis, Cerebrovascular Accidents

Chapter Fourteen: Infectious Diseases

     Petussiss (Whooping Cough), Mumps (Epidemic Parotitis)