A General Introduction to Traditional Chinese Medicine PDF

Preface

A General Introduction to Traditional Chinese Medicine is an introductory book on Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). It attempts to guide readers to learn TCM's academic thoughts, theoretical system, and clinical practice. The book is trying to provide beginners with TCM's peculiar way of thinking, more than 2,000 years' history, and TCM's philosophybased theoretical system.

The book covers:

• Establishment and characteristics of TCM's theoretical system.

• Establishment and development of TCM's clinical system.

• Basic features of TCM.

• TCM's philosophical bases: primordial qi, yin-yang, and Five Elements, and

• TCM's medical model, method, and architecture.

The book has been carefully designed to be as accessible as possible, with

• Goals & Requirements and Key Contents are at the beginning of every chapter to enable readers to understand the core and the outline of the chapter.

• Endnotes, not only as one essential part of references for readers to learn more about TCM, but also as a guide for foreign readers to learn some cultural and historical information peculiar to China.

• Glossary for readers to understand more specific information about TCM and Chinese culture.

We would like to acknowledge a few Chinese famous professors like professor He Yuming from Shanghai University of TCM and Zhang Zhenyu from Shandong University of TCM for their academic enlightenment; our grateful thanks also go to colleagues and friends who share their expertise by contributing materials, reading drafts, and fruitful conversation; we also owe our abundant thanks to the translators of the book, Li Xia from Shanxi University of TCM, and Chai Gaiying and Curtis Evans from Zhejiang Gongshang University.

We hope that you will find useful the design, the content, and the support the book will give to your research and practice.