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The Illustrated Chinese Materia Medica: Crude and Prepared

By Kun-Ying Yen
Hardcover book
ISBN 9789576380761
383 pages

Though less well known than acupuncture, China’s traditional drug therapy has an equally long history. The unbroken development of the Chinese civilization has permitted the gradual accumulation of the knowledge and experience of generation upon generation of healers. With its unique theoretical basis and its centuries of empirical wisdom, it has spread over the globe and gained respect from the scientific community. Its ability to treat a vast variety of disorders effectively has won it a central place among alternative medicines.

Chinese medicine uses simply processed animal, vegetable, and mineral products, vegetable items accounting for about 90%. This book includes over 240 of the most commonly used agents.

The items are arranged in pharmacognostic style according to the part of the plant used. Included are names, origins, characters, quality, production area, properties and actions, indications, chemical constituents, and representative formulas. Appendixes include drug function comparison tables, a short description of drug processing, 356 formulas with ingredients and indications, and a glossary of Chinese medical terms. A merged English, Latin, Pinyin, and Japanese index provides easy access to any agent plant, or formula discussed in the book. A Chinese index makes the book useful to those familiar with the original names.

With nearly 240 illustrated agents over 350 formulas, this text represents and indispensable basic handbook for the student of drug therapy of Chinese medicine. It is an excellent reference for those who sell or prescribe Chinese drugs, for pharmacists and pharmacologists, as well as those merely interested in Chinese medicine.

Chinese and Japanese editions of this book have been highly praised, the Chinese edition having won the Golden Tripod Award of the Government Information Office of the Republic of China.

About the Author:

Kun-ying Yen is a professor in the School of Pharmacy, Taipei Medical College. He received his Ph.D. in Pharmacology from Kyoto University (Japan), and has been engaged in research in Chinese medicine for nearly forty years. Having published over ninety papers and over ten books in Chinese and Japanese, he has made outstanding contributions to the research of Chinese medicine. Prof. Yen is currently director of the Graduate Institute of Pharmacognosy Science at Taipei Medical College, a member of the Committee on Chinese Medicine and Pharmacy, Department of Health, Executive Yuan, R.O.C., and president of the Kun-ying Yen Culture and Education Foundation.

Clinical Handbook of Chinese Herbs: Essential Desk Reference

By Will Maclean
Trade paperback book
ISBN 9780957972025
155 pages, 5.50 x 8.50″

Proficiency in the prescription of Chinese herbs depends not only on good diagnosis but on an intimate knowledge of the raw materials. This in turn depends on being able to discriminate the fine points of difference between the similar herbs within a group, and a deep understanding of the unique characteristics of each herb. This volume of comparative charts is designed to aid the student or the busy practitioner in selecting the optimal medicinals for their patients. Each table describes the characteristics of a group of herbs, including extensive indications with relative strengths of action and function, the domain, flavor, nature, and dosage guidelines. The tables and text in this book will facilitate efficient comparative study for the student, as wll as make clear the fine points of discrimination for the experienced practitioner. Easy to use, with clear and accurate tables comparing all the main herbs used in a modern clinic, this tome is a practical assistant to the complex world of Chinese herbal prescription.

Features:

Quick comparative access to indications, functions, flavors and nature across groups of herbs
Practical information about processing, dosage variations, delivery format and concise cautions and contraindications
Tables of herbs contraindicated during pregnancy, herbs with potential toxicity, endangered species with possible substitutes, and herbs requiring special treatment.
Extensive index and glossary of terms

Praise for Clinical Handbook of Chinese Herbs- Essential Desk Reference

“There have now been many books released on Chinese herbal medicine over the past 20 years, with the Bensky, Clavey and Stoger Materica Medica being the benchmarks. Though the Bensky Materia Medica is essential for any student and practitioner of Chinese herbal medicine, it is not exactly user friendly because of its sheer size.This is where Will Maclean’s desk reference comes to felicity. It will easily fit into the students lap top or Gucci bag. And the book is affordable to the average student. It gets ten out of ten for the most user friendly herb index of any Chinese herbal medicine text book I have come across. What a great idea to have the herbs listed in alphabetical order with pin yin and the pharmaceutical name all in one index. I know when I research and study, some journal articles and books only have the pharmaceutical name and others only the pin yin. When using Bensky’s book, it always takes me 5 minutes to just get to the right index, but with Will’s book, oh what a breeze. The symptom index is also a bonus, as it includes common names of symptoms, medical terms and even some TCM terms such as xiao ke (diabetes). There is more than one appendix in this desk reference, including all the basic formulas and their ingredients. Not to mention, the formula names include pin yin, translated name and Chinese characters. Another appendix I find quite useful (and now easily accessible because I own a copy) is the list of herbal medicines requiring special treatment, such as cook first, add later and so forth. I had always wanted to compile a list of these for myself and had procrastinated for 20 years or so, but now Will has done it for me, which is great. There is ample information on each individual herb so you can write any prescription you need and readily identify the major contraindications and common formulas that contain a particular herb. Then you can flick across the formula index and review if required. From a study perspective, each chapter includes a simple one-page table summary with the main medicines, indications and functions of each, so you can look at the symptoms you are trying to address in any prospective prescription. In the final analysis, it is an excellent book and a great companion to use with Bensky’s Materia Medica. It is perfect for the student and practitioner alike. Finally, although I can’t remember the Nei Jing quote exactly , where it expounds, “when he reaches the age of 56, his Liver becomes dry and he can no longer see clearly,” Will has taken this into account and the print size used in the book is still readable to us veterans. He has crammed everything possible into this small desk reference to give you value for your buck.”

-HEIKO LADE, New Zealand

Teach Yourself to Read Modern Medical Chinese: A Step-by-Step Workbook and Guide -eBook

By Bob Flaws
Digital Goods, Ebooks
ISBN 9780936185996
240 pages

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We’ve been trying to get Bob to sit down and write this book for years. We believe that the use of this book can revolutionize one’s understanding and practice of Chinese medicine. Using this book, every student with a little savvy and some perseverance can gain immediate, personal access to 2,000 years of Chinese medical literature.

This workbook is the first one ever written specifically to help acupuncturists and practitioners of Chinese medicine to directly access the Chinese medical literature in Chinese. It will teach you how to teach yourself to translate critically valuable medical information. With the step-by-step instructions and resources contained in this book plus some patience and perseverance, you can begin translating modern medical Chinese within hours.

In this workbook you will learn:

How to look up Chinese characters in a Chinese-English dictionary
How to interpret the characters once you have looked them up
How to use quick “cheat sheets” for identifying: Chinese acupuncture point names, Chinese medicinal names, and Chinese formula names
How to purchase Chinese medical texts by mail
How to subscribe to Chinese medical journals from China
What to translate and what not to as a beginner
How typical Chinese journal articles and clinical manuals are set up

About the author:

Bob Flaws is one of the most famous practitioners, teachers, and authors/translators on Chinese medicine in the world today. He began his study of Chinese medicine privately with Eric (Xi-yu) Tao and then went on to continue that study at the Shanghai College of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Bob has been involved with language study and translation for more than 40 years. As a professional writer, Bob’s knowledge of and feel for the English language is exceptional. Beginning at 40 years of age, Bob taught himself to read Chinese, one of the five foreign languages he can read.

Praise for Teach Yourself to Read Modern Medical Chinese -eBook

“Teach Yourself to Read Modern Medical Chinese is a “down and dirty” approach to learning to read Chinese on your own. Unlike most foreign language textbooks that teach grammar and vocabulary exercises, this book teaches to read modern medical Chinese by teaching how to look up characters in Chinese-English and Chinese medical dictionaries. “Cheat sheets” and “glossaries” are provided to help this process along… This book is filled with enough information to last a lifetime. It is well written, methodically organized, esthetically beautiful, but most of all, it fills a niche that has been void in our learning. [Translating Chinese] is definitely work, there is no way around it, but this book makes learning modern medical Chinese possible and enjoyable. This book could be a great textbook for teaching medical Chinese in our acupuncture schools.”

-California Journal of Oriental Medicine, October, 1998, p. 44-45

Grasping the Wind: An Exploration into the meaning of Chinese Acupuncture Point Names -eBook

By Andrew Ellis & Nigel Wiseman
Digital Goods, Ebooks
ISBN 9780912111913
462 pages

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Point names, the traditional means for identifying acupoints, have meanings that are, like the wind, hard to grasp. Yet enfolded in these often poetic words is a utility that involves the complex associations derived from the evolution of the Chinese language and the vast array of therapeutic analogies found in traditional medical works.

In discussing the point names, the authors examine the meaning, context, and significance of each acupuncture point to promote understanding of the point’s use in acupuncture practice. Guidelines for understanding the nature and structure of the Chinese language are offered, along with discussions of the Chinese rationale for naming points and point groupings. The reasoning for selecting the English names is offered so that readers may adapt the names for their own use. Each of the 363 points covered is listed according to the system currently used in China. Descriptions include the name in Chinese characters, in Pinyin, and in English. The classical location according to major Chinese texts, the associated point groupings, an explanation of point functions, and classical energetic associations are also noted. Further detail is provided by inclusion of channel relationships, five-phase relationships, and qi functions. Additional notes detail linguistic and practical considerations that have accrued to the point over time. Alternate names for the point are given, again in Chinese, Pinyin, and English. Indexes provide stroke order listings, point group names, and point lists for each character. A glossary of all the characters used in point names provides a definition for each Chinese character. This book provides much valuable theoretical and therapeutic information.

About the authors:

Nigel Wiseman, a native of the UK, studied Spanish and German at the Heriott-Watt University in Edinburgh, subsequently working as a French-English translator in Belgium while learning Chinese. He holds a doctorate in Complementary Health Sciences from Exeter University, and is the author and translator of a prodigious body of work on Chinese medicine, including such outstanding classics as Practical Dictionary of Chinese Medicine, Fundamentals of Chinese Acupuncture, Fundamentals of Chinese Medicine, Shang Han Lun Yi Shi, Chinese Medical Chinese: Grammar and Vocabulary, and Introduction to the English Terminology of Chinese Medicine. A long-time resident of Taiwan, Dr. Wiseman is currently a lecturer of Chinese medical studies at Chang Gung Medical University in Taipei.

Andrew Ellis first studied Chinese medicine with Dr. James Tin Yau So at the New England School of Acupuncture. He left New England in 1983 to study Chinese language in Taiwan and apprenticed with Chinese herbalist Xu Fu-Su there for several years. Later he studied internal medicine and gynecology at the Xiamen Hospital of Chinese medicine. While there, he also specialized in the study of acupuncture with Dr. Shi Neng-Yun and dermatology with Dr. Zhang Guang-Cai.

Fundamentals of Chinese Medicine -eBook

By Nigel Wiseman & Andrew Ellis
Digital Goods, Ebooks
ISBN 9780911111117
532 pages

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English translations of traditional Chinese medical texts rarely have conformed to the standards required of a contribution to sinology. One exception has been the first edition of Fundamentals of Chinese Medicine, a ground-breaking translation of the Zhong Yi Ji Chu Xue which demonstrated that not only was it possible to meet scholarly expectations for the translations of TCM, but that the cooperation of living Chinese speaking clinicians could reveal nuances of practice. Beyond beginner’s manuals, it gives English-speaking students of TCM a chance to appreciate the qualitative details available to their Chinese-speaking colleagues. It offers readers the rare opportunity to understand Chinese medicine, not as it is perceived by a Western writer, but as it is perceived and taught in China, because Chinese descriptions of TCM that confound Western expectations have not been expunged from the textual translation.

This revised edition incorporates experience from utilization of the work as a coursebook for teaching, not only in the West but in China. Based on the suggestion and aid of Western teachers and translators, this new, popularly priced edition features a simplified but precise English terminology, thousands of source Chinese characters, and hundreds of clinical definitions never before available in English. Contents include yin and yang and the five phases; qi, blood, essence, and fluids; the channels; the organs; diseases and their causes. Pattern identification and treatment of eight-parameter, organ, qi-blood, pathogens, and exogenous heat conditions are discussed in detail, as are the principles and methods of treatment. Illustrative acumoxa therapy has been added for Western acupuncturists.

The revised edition includes explanations of terms and an entire materia medica and formulary sufficient to practice the treatments described by the text. As such it is not only a unique, absolutely-defined and referenced text, but a self-contained and inexpensive course of study. As a basic text produced to a multi-author, multi-publisher voluntary standard, the revised Fundamentals of Chinese Medicine is a bridge between scholars and clinicians in both the East and West.

About the authors:

Praise for Fundamentals of Chinese Medicine -eBook

“This publication of an English translation of Zhong Yi Ji Chu Xue is an important step toward assuring that medical dialogue between East and West will have not only lasting importance but conscious direction, as it is a standard work at institutes of traditional Chinese medicine throughout Asia. The translators’ attention to nuance and detail is impressive. Each word appears to have been weighed on delicate linguistic scales. This volume will ensure a deepened appreciation of how the Chinese have applied the methodology of traditional medicine to the circumstances of contemporary society, as well as allow for careful and thoughtful study of important primary sources.”

-Ted Kaptchuk, Professor, Harvard Medical School.

Chinese Medical Chinese: Grammar & Vocabulary

By Nigel Wiseman & Ye Feng
Trade paperback book
ISBN 9780912111650
456 pages

This is a very sophisticated and highly useful work that provides a sound basis for reading both modern and classical texts for anyone wishing to learn original Chinese medical language. The work assumes readers already have knowledge of how Chinese characters are composed, how they are written by hand, and how they are pronounced.

This book is divided into two parts. The first part describes the basic features of literary Chinese medical language and to the modern vernacular of northern China, known as Mandarin. It explains many grammatical constructions commonly encountered in Chinese medical texts, and describes how Chinese medical terms are composed. The second part presents the vocabulary and terminology of Chinese medicine as its component characters.

The lessons are organized by Chinese medical categories and the characters are introduced in sets according to subject matter; for example, terms related to the five phases, terms related to inspection of the tongue, terms related to pulse taking, or terms related to women’s diseases. Each of these sets is followed by a section that presents examples of compound terms formed from characters already introduced. These examples are then followed by drills that self-test these vocabularies.

In all, this text covers basic theories, four examinations, diseases, pathomechanisms and disease patterns, principles and methods of treatment, pharmaceutics, and acupuncture. It includes etymologies of terms, gives component characters in simplified and complex form with their significs, and explains terms translations for 1027 characters and 2555 compound terms. The black matter includes answers to the 910 drill questions, appendices containing the names of commonly used medicinals, formulas, and acupuncture points, and a copious index.

Grasping the Wind: An Exploration into the Meaning of Chinese Acupuncture Point Names

By Andrew Ellis & Nigel Wiseman
Trade paperback book
ISBN 9780912111193
462 pages

About the authors:

Nigel Wiseman, a native of the UK, studied Spanish and German at the Heriott-Watt University in Edinburgh, subsequently working as a French-English translator in Belgium while learning Chinese. He holds a doctorate in Complementary Health Sciences from Exeter University, and is the author and translator of a prodigious body of work on Chinese medicine, including such outstanding classics as Practical Dictionary of Chinese Medicine, Fundamentals of Chinese Acupuncture, Fundamentals of Chinese Medicine, Shang Han Lun Yi Shi, Chinese Medical Chinese: Grammar and Vocabulary, and Introduction to the English Terminology of Chinese Medicine. A long-time resident of Taiwan, Dr. Wiseman is currently a lecturer of Chinese medical studies at Chang Gung Medical University in Taipei.

A Practical Dictionary of Chinese Medicine

By Nigel Wiseman & Ye Feng
Hardcover book
ISBN 9780990869801
824 pages

From the simple and common to the complex and rare, this book contains subtleties, distinctions and nuances of Chinese medicine never found in beginners’ texts. Whether for translational or clinical application, it presents the concepts of Chinese medicine exactly as they would come to the mind of a Chinese physician speaking or writing in their native language.

Arranged as a classical dictionary, definitions are provided in English alphabetic order, and include the English term, the source Chinese term, its Pinyin transliteration (including spoken tone), pronounciation, etymology, and one or more definitions as applied in Chinese medicine. Terms used within definitions are cross-referenced and disease and symptom descriptions include the standard therapies applied in the People’s Republic of China. Each definition is referenced to one or more Chinese source. In all, it lists the characters, Pinyin, translations, and definitions for more than 10,000 medical concepts, including treatments for the patterns described, giving formulas, medicinals, and acupoints.

The definitions and treatments are drawn from clinically authoritative Chinese medical sources, all of which are cited. The many useful features include a full set of English common and commercial names for medicinal substances, as well as standard Latin scientific names. Western medical correspondences are noted, as is nomenclature put forward by the World Health Organization. The index is comprehensive and fully cross referenced; it also includes lesser-used terms and nomenclature so it may be used as a translators’ glossary.

This is a valuable work with a scope that is absolutely breathtaking. It provides rapid access to an enormous amount of information for the student, researcher, or clinician, and is a gold-standard reference source for academic studies, international exchange, and training in Chinese medicine.

Fundamentals of Chinese Medicine

By Nigel Wiseman & Andrew Ellis
Trade paperback book
ISBN 9780912111445
594 pages
1.85lbs

Praise for Fundamentals of Chinese Medicine

This publication of an English translation of Zhong Yi Ji Chu Xue is an important step toward assuring that medical dialogue between East and West will have not only lasting importance but conscious direction, as it is a standard work at institutes of traditional Chinese medicine throughout Asia. The translators’ attention to nuance and detail is impressive. Each word appears to have been weighed on delicate linguistic scales. This volume will ensure a deepened appreciation of how the Chinese have applied the methodology of traditional medicine to the circumstances of contemporary society, as well as allow for careful and thoughtful study of important primary sources.

-Ted Kaptchuk, Professor, Harvard Medical School.

Chinese Life Sciences: Introductory Readings in Classical Chinese Medicine

By Paul U. Unschuld
Trade paperback book
ISBN 9780912111810
488 pages

This work offers a selection of sixty texts with vocabulary and translation, compiled and translated from 33 classics including the Huang Di Nei Jing, Yi Xue, Nan Jing, Shi Ji, San Yin Lun, Shang Han Lun, Ben Cao Gan Mu, and Pi Wei Lun. The texts are presented in ten lessons. Each lesson provides information on the issues that have gained the most attention in the West: general values, structure and function of the organism, concepts of disease and diagnosis, principles of therapy, pharmaceutics, and needle treatment.

Intended to optimize student study, each monograph includes the Chinese text in easily readable type size; a table containing each Chinese character with its PinYin and English translation; a PinYin translation of the excerpt; an English translation of the excerpt; and translational notes. A vocabulary is provided which builds up as the lessons progress and which emphasizes medical terminology. Also included is a final glossary of all the characters introduced in the individual texts, which allows the student to systematically access the classical Chinese medical literature. The work also contains a detailed guide to currently available dictionaries, biographies, and bibliographies, thus making it indispensable as a starting point for the study of the primary sources of Chinese traditional medicine.

Given the widespread and increasing interest in traditional Chinese life sciences, this work will receive wide attention. It lends itself as a textbook for academic Chinese language courses and for private use. Even for readers not intending to study “medical” Chinese language, this book presents rich data on ancient Chinese life science and medicine since – with only very few exceptions – all texts reproduced here are translated into a Western language for the first time.