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Healing With Whole Foods: Asian Traditions and Modern Nutrition (3rd Edition) 96 reviews
Paul Pitchford
North Atlantic Books, 2002
Book Deserves 10 Stars
+ Healing with Whole Foods
+ excellent source
+ Glad I got this book.
+ A gift for life
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Practical Diagnosis in Traditional Chinese Medicine 5 reviews
Tietao
Churchill Livingstone, 1999
A TCM Diagnostic Dream -come -true!
+ Single best book on Chinese medical diagnostics
As a practicing acupuncturist of 12 years and teacher of this artful medicine, I found this book invaluable for both practioners and students of TCM. The wealth of information on examination methods(i.e.: tongue,pulse,abdomen,almost every aspect of facial diagnosis), 10 questions, and more was ...
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Acupuncture: A Comprehensive Text 2 reviews
Chen Chiu Hseuh
Eastland Press, 1981
A Voluminous (only slightly flawed) Mainstay
+ Great "all around" Book....
This book got short shrift in our education even though we bought in in the first year or two. It is essential for its coverage of auricular and scalp acupuncture (not to mention other imaging styles such as "nose acupuncture"). It also has a slightly different view of channel pathology symptoms ...
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Chinese Herbal Medicines: Comparisons and Characteristics1 review
Yifan Yang
Churchill Livingstone, 2002
Yifan Yang Should write more books on TCM
Yifan Yang should write more books. She writes with much clarity and authority based obviously on her profound understanding of the TCM fundamentals. Anyone whether student, practicing physician would find this book a treasure to be kept as a reference and guide to their understanding of the TCM ...
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A Practical Dictionary of Chinese Medicine 8 reviews
Nigel Wiseman, Ye Feng
Paradigm Publications (MA), 1998
An absolute must
+ Great Reference
+ The best, so far
+ Sets the standard
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The Essence of Liu Feng-Wu's Gynecology1 review
Blue Poppy Pr, 1998
You will be amazed
As someone is was not sure if acupuncture was a voodoo science or what---i was still somewhat interested in learning more about it----if this sounds like you---buy the book! It takes you step by step of each body part----this book is esential for the beginner---or the relucant one--or even the ...
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Atlas of Chinese Tongue Diagnosis, Volume 21 review
Barbara Kirschbaum
Eastland Press, 2003
Peek behind a professional TCM healer
I am in the last year of my 4-year TCM School. I found this book to be very helpful in clearly illustrating in color pictures, simple explanations and clear diagrams what I other books talk about only theoretically.
The book is organized by dedicating a chapter for each Zhang organ. In each case ...
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Tongue Diagnosis in Chinese Medicine11 reviews
Giovanni Maciocia
Eastland Press, 1995
Tongue Diagnosis in Chinese Medicine
+ I find this book essential for practitioneres of TCM.
+ Excellent!
+ Always learning something new
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Shang Han Lun: On Cold Damage, Translation & Commentaries 3 reviews
Zhongjing Zhang, Feng Ye, ...
Paradigm Publications (MA), 1999
"A Readers" review is factually incorrect and misleading
+ Thank you!
As the publisher of this book, there are several factual errors in the anonymous review posted here that I would like to address.
First, the "translation of a translation" comment is misleading. First century texts such as the Shang Han Lun are not books one pulls off a shelf. They were ...
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A Manual of Acupuncture22 reviews
Peter Deadman, Kevin Baker, ...
Not Avail, 1998
An excellent reference book
+ A Manuel of Acupuncture
+ very satisfied
+ Very Helpful
+ Thank you, it was a pleasure to do business.
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Fundamentals of Chinese Medicine: Zhong Yi Xue Ji Chu (Paradigm Title)5 reviews
Nigel Wisemann
Paradigm Publications (MA), 1995
A good rival to Maccioca's intro text.
+ CM
+ Much underappreciated
+ EXCELLENT, FUNDAMENTAL, ESSENTIAL!!
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The Art of Acupuncture Techniques8 reviews
Robert Johns
North Atlantic Books, 1996
Please Re-Read Pericardium-6, "The Wild Card"
+ a must have
+ simple book from a brilliant doctor
+ Johns's deep understanding of medicine comes through pages
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Chinese Herbal Medicine: Materia Medica, Third Edition15 reviews
Dan Bensky, Steven Clavey, ...
Eastland Press, 2004
Great Reference
+ Great resource
+ Great Book. It is the Merriam Webster of the Chinese Medical Herbs Reference
I need this book for a class in Chinese Herbal Medicine. I'm excited about it and it's companion Formulas and Strategies. Pretty neat. Hard to find a comparible resource of it's type. It lists hundreds of herbs and their nature.
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Patterns & Practice in Chinese Medicine4 reviews
Xuemeii Li, Jingyi Zhao
Eastland Press, 1998
Understandable
+ Great Book!!!!
+ A "must have" for the beginning practitioner
+ great book
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Atlas of Chinese Tongue Diagnosis3 reviews
Barbara Kirschbaum
Eastland Press, 2000
Excellent atlas of tongue diagnosis
+ Atlas of Chinese Tongue Diagnosis
+ Atlas of Chinese Tongue Diagnosis Volume 1
This is an excellent book for anyone interested in Chinese tongue diagnosis. The book is divided into sections according to pattern (Kidney disharmonies, Stomach and Spleen disharmonies, etc). Each section contains approximately 30 full-color, well-photographed tongues representing the pattern. ...
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Practical Therapeutics of Traditional Chinese Medicine (Paradigm Title)3 reviews
Yan Wu, Warren Fischer
Paradigm Publications (MA), 1997
Invaluable text
+ An Essential Book for all TCM Practitioners
+ Well done!
This is a superbly researched, reliable, thorough-going textbook on acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine for a vast variety of ailments. Superb, easy to read and understand charts, with chinese, pharmaceutical, and latin names for every herb, extensive theoretical and practical discussions. ...
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The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Medicine: A New Translation of the Neijing Suwen with Commentary8 reviews
Maoshing Ni
Shambhala, 1995
The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Medicine
+ Classically oriented, yet contemporarily relevant
+ The best we have.
+ Question...
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Nan-ching--The Classic of Difficult Issues (Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care)4 reviews
Paul U. Unschuld
University of California Press, 1986
Worsley followers pay attention ...
+ A fundamental book for Chinese Medicine study
+ timely, excellent condition, as expected
+ essential reading
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The Secret of Chinese Pulse Diagnosis4 reviews
Bob Flaws
Blue Poppy Press, 1997
Excellent!
+ The Secret of Chinese Pulse Diagnosis
+ Makes pulse diagnosis easy for anybody
I found this book very useful and I believe every practitioner of TCM should have it.
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Grasping the Wind (Paradigm Title)5 reviews
Andrew Ellis, Nigel Wiseman, ...
Paradigm Publications (MA), 1989
A window on the Chinese understanding of the Acupoints
+ A Must-Have Text for TCM & Acupuncture Students
First of all, if you want to know the location, indications, contraindications and prescriptions for all the 400+ acupoints, please see _A Manual of Acupuncture_ by Peter Deadman, Mazin Al-Khafaji with Kevin Baker. But if you want more than a two or three word translation of the point's Chinese ...
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