ContentsForeword 1Approach to Traditional Chinese Medicine 3Recognition of TCM 4The Thinking Style of TCM 7The Formation and Variation of Tradition 12Understanding TCM 17The Classics of TCM 21Huang Di Nei Jing (Yellow Emperor’s Canon of Medicine) 23Huang Di Ba Shi Yi Nan Jing (Yellow Emperor’s Canon On Eighty-One Difficult Issues) 24Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing (Agriculture God’s Canon of Materia Medica) 26Shang Han Za Bing Lun (Treatise on Cold Diseases and Miscellaneous Diseases) 27Compilation of Book and Development into Canon 29Basic Theory of TCM 33The Theories of Yin-Yang and Wu Xing 34Viscera and Their Manifestations 40Channels and Collaterals 43Etiology 49Diagnostics 53Internal and External Therapies of TCM 59Acupuncture and Moxibustion 60Prescriptions 64Treatment of Both the Internal and the External 70Knowledge of Materia Medica 73Establishment of the Theory of Materia Medica 74Important Books on Materia Medica 75Pharmacological Studies 81Drug Administration and Market 82Processing of Herbs 86Story about Ginseng 88Stories about Famous Doctors in History 93Bian Que 94Zhang Zhongjing and Hua Tuo 95Wang Shuhe and Huang Fumi 98Sun Simiao 100The Four Great Schools in the Jin and Yuan Dynasties 101Zhang Jingyue 104Ye Tianshi 105Wang Qingren 108TCM and Life Cultivation 111Life Cultivation in the Four Seasons 112Integration of Food and Medicines 115Sports and Health 118Emotions and Diseases 120Inheritance and Development of Modern TCM 123To Establish a Standard System for TCM 124Development and Innovation of TCM in Clinical Use 126To Integrate TCM with Western Medicine and Encourage the Modernization of TCM 128TCM Going to the World 130Appendix: Chronological Table of the Chinese Dynasties 132
Liao Yuqun, born in 1953, graduated from Beijing Second Medical College in 1981, and now a researcher and director of the Institute for the History of Natural Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, as well as vice-president of the Chinese Society of History of Science and Technology. His academic works include The Qihuang Medical Science, The Translation of Yellow Emperor s Canon of Difficulties in Modern Chinese, Ayurveda: Traditional Indian Medicine, Imagery Thinking of Traditional Chinese Medicine, etc.
Traditional Chinese medicine and pharmacology is arousing increasing attention from around the world. In the form of telling stories, 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 traditional Chinese medicine introduced into Japan and Korea; and its positive influence on modern health concept.