The web that has no weaver Understanding Chinese medicine

Ted J. Kaptchuk, 1947-

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Published
Chicago, Ill : Contemporary Books c2000.
Language
English
Main Author
Ted J. Kaptchuk, 1947- (-)
Edition
[Rev. ed., newly expanded and updated]
Physical Description
xxvi, 500 p. : ill. ; 21 cm
Bibliography
"Selected bibliography": p. 465-481.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN
9780809228409
  • Acknowledgments
  • Foreword
  • Foreword
  • Author's Note
  • The Pinyin Phonetic Alphabet
  • Introduction to New Edition
  • 1.. Medicine East and West: Two Ways of Seeing, Two Ways of Thinking and the landscape patterns of nature and humans
  • 2.. The Fundamental Textures: Qi, Blood, Essence, Spirit, and Fluids or the basic ingredients of human life
  • 3.. The Organs of the Body: The Harmonious Landscape and on anatomy and its absence
  • 4.. The Meridians: The Warp and Woof and on acupuncture and herbology
  • 5.. Origins of Disharmony: Stormy Weather or when a cause is not a cause
  • 6.. The Four Examinations: Signs and Symptoms and Aristotle and Lao Tzu revisited
  • 7.. The Eight Principal Patterns: The Faces of Yin and Yang the patterns' basic texture and composition
  • 8.. The Patterns of the Human Landscape the details of the clinical scene
  • 9.. Chinese Medicine as an Art or on the Penetrating Divine Illumination
  • 10.. The Web That Has No Weaver--and Mount Sinai or on the location of truth
  • Appendixes
  • A.. The Stages of Disease: A Series of Clinical Scenes
  • B.. Yang Organs in Disharmony
  • C.. Pulses Revisited
  • D.. The Curious Organs
  • E.. The Scientific Encounter with East Asian Medicine: Efficacy and Adverse Effects
  • F.. The Five Phases (Wu Xing)
  • G.. Historical Bibliography: Links in the Chain of Transmission
  • H.. Selected Bibliography
  • Index