Guest guest Posted October 5, 2002 Report Share Posted October 5, 2002 wrote: > > c.. Are they really indispensible? > > they are for me, because they elaborate a very similar style of practice as what I learned from Li Wei I just want to add that there's another couple of books that I've found to be indispensible, and they are the Clinical Handbooks of Internal Medicine Vol 1 and 2. (Looking forward to the third and I presume final volume). They're published by the University of Western Syndey and available at better TCM bookstores everywhere. They too elaborate a style similar to the therapeutic path I walk, the core TCM as I learned in school. Written by Will Maclean and Jane Lyttleton, ISBN: 1-875-76093-8 and 0-9579720-0-8 I have no financial interest in these books. -- Al Stone L.Ac. <AlStone http://www.BeyondWellBeing.com Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 5, 2002 Report Share Posted October 5, 2002 , Al Stone <alstone@b...> wrote: the Clinical Handbooks of Internal Medicine Vol 1 and 2. (Looking forward to the third and I presume final volume). > > They're published by the University of Western Syndey and available at better TCM bookstores everywhere. Al: You're right; these books are very nice for TCM. They discuss probems in detail and are very articulate. I found the most interesting aspect are the flow charts for various disorders which visualize the diagnostic decision process. I've seen these sort of decision trees in some Western medical books and wish more were available for CM students. They are fairly innovative for helping teach students, and worth their expense. Jim Ramholz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 5, 2002 Report Share Posted October 5, 2002 I agree. We are going to start using the series for courses in the herb department at PCOM fairly soon. I refer to them often in my clinical practice, and find they are comprehensive and very well written. I look forward to meeting Phillipe at the Pacific Symposium. On Saturday, October 5, 2002, at 01:13 PM, wrote: > I could write prescriptions without this book, but it has been found > really useful to confirm my hunches about possible patterns for an > illness. for many conditions, there are 2-3 times as many patterns > listed as in most other texts. I would never suggest that any > disease's pathomechanisms are limited to what is written in textbooks. > However, a series like sionneau's constitutes a broad survey of the > modern and premodern literature. Thus, the patterns he lists are by > far the most commonly seen, in my experience. I ocasionally have to > look elsewhere to confirm my suspicion that such and such a condition > has been treated as such and such a pattern by past doctors. But it > really is rare. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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