Traditional Chinese Medicine (Cultural China Series, Englische Ausgabe

This book narrates the origin of Chinese medicine, and summarizes its basic theory and its root in traditional Chinese philosophy. It tells stories of outstanding physicians and pharmaceutists in Chinese history, and gives brief introductions to its unique diagnostic and therapeutic methods, such as sphygmology, acupuncture and moxibustion, and phytotherapy; the mutual influence between Chinese medicine and Indian medicine, and between Chinese medicine and Arabic medicine; the history of tradit ...