Chinese Medicine Books

Dr. Yang Jiasan has been both a teacher and a clinician for decades. Through practice as well as study of acupuncture literature both ancient and modern, he has developed a method of locating points that those lacking knowledge of traditional Chinese medical theory find easy to grasp because it uses modern anatomical landmarks ad much ad possible.

3. Essentials of Chinese Acupuncture
Compiled by: Acupuncture Institute of the Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Published by: Foreign Languages Press, Beijing, China
Brief introduction: Acupuncture and moxibustion, of marked efficacy and requiring but simple equipment, have been widely popular in China and elsewhere for thousands of years. The Book consists of three parts. Part two is devoted to a general description of the basic knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine. In part one,meridians, collateral and acupuncture points are introduced. Part three dwells on acupuncture and moxibustion therapy. Ear acupuncture therapy and acupuncture analgesia is also dealt with. Popular in style with fairly concise presentation, the book is written with the intention of maintaining an integral theoretical system of Chinese acupuncture and moxibustion so as to give readers a comprehensive concept of Chinese acupuncture. For further study, it is advisable to combine theory with practice for perfection of the art.

4. Chinese Acupuncture and Moxibustion
Compiled by: the International Acupuncture Training Centers and Acupuncture Institute of China, Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Published by: Foreign Languages Press Beijing
Based upon Essentials of Chinese Acupuncture, used as a textbook by the international Acupuncture Training Centers in Beijing, Shanghai and Nanjing, Chinese Acupuncture and Moxibustion incorporates the rich experience of class teaching and clinical practice and the results of acupuncture research, retaining the characteristic features of the traditional theory of acupuncture and stressing the integration of theory and practice.

5. Standard Meridian Points of Acupuncture (Charts)
Compiled by: Acupuncture Institute of China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Published by: Foreign Languages Press Beijing, 1995
This set of charts is, prepared under the supervision of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine on the basis of the State Standard of the People's Republic of China for the Location of acupoints, published for the purpose of helping with implementing the Standard and facilitating clinical practice, teaching, and research. The same specialists who participated in compiling the Standard are authors of these charts, which respectively show names and locations of meridians and acupoints on the front, back and lateral sides of the human body, along with the international standard nomenclature and alphamerical code. An enclosed booklet describes in detail names and locations of 409 points (361 meridian points and 48 extra points) to facilitate the use of the charts.

6.TEST-Chinese Acupuncture and Moxibustion
Compiled by: Dr. Cui Yongqiang, Dr. Chen Ken
Published by: Foreign Languages Press Beijing
The traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) education and examination program is sponsored by the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine (CATCM).
Entrusted by the World Heath Organization (WHO), the Ministry of Public Health of the People's Republic of China sponsored its first formal acupuncture training course for foreign doctors in 1981 and from then on, normalized TCM education and examinations began to spread worldwide.
This selection of examination questions in TCM is offered in the hope that it may be found useful in any of the following four ways:
1. As a source of ready-made questions for use by examiners of TCM-related organizations.
2. As a source of ideas which may aid examiners in the construction of new questions.
3. As an aid to candidates planning to take TCM examinations and to score high on them.
4.As a means by which students can assess their own progress in acquiring TCM knowledge.
The questions in the book will show you what is required and therefore help you get the most out of your studies. You will also get the "feel" of the examination. The book contains many "similar situation" as you will discover when you take the actual examinations in China and abroad.
In going over the questions in the book, you will not-if you use the book properly-be satisfied merely with the answer to a particular question. You will want to do additional study on the other choices for the same questions. In this way you will broaden your background, which will help your preparation for the examination or your treatment of the patients.
The book contains multi-choice and traditional questions, both focusing on the mastery of basic TCM theory, acupuncture and manipulations, diagnosis and case analysis.
There is now growing evidence to suggest that these questions appear simultaneously in all kinds of examinations, as are demonstrated daily in China.
The answers appear at the back and, where available, a figure is provided showing the facility of the question, This is derived from the average proportion of candidates correctly answering the question overall the occasions when it has been used in formal examinations. It has to be emphasized also that all the answers involved in this book do not go far from the textbooks "Essentials of Chinese Acupuncture" and "Chinese Acupuncture and moxibustion" published by Foreign Languages Press.

7. A Family Massage Manual( Health Care at Home)
Edited by: Chen Zhaoguang
Published by: Foreign Languages Press Beijing, 1992
Massage at home, without even stepping out of the bedroom, by oneself or the family members. Follow the simple, step-by-step procedures detailed in this book once a week or once a day and get relief from ailments and discomforts and fell refreshed. With its preventative health care approach, this manual offers an alternative to frequent trips to the hospital and chemical medications, a few of them are side-effect-free. Headaches, back pain, or hypertension, apoplexy, look it up in the index and find out what to do. The introduction answers how-it-works questions with a brief examination of basic concepts and theories of TCM. Easy to read and easy to follow, with good effects.

8. Chinese Family Acupoint Massage
Edited by: Wang chuangui
Published by: Foreign Languages Press Beijing,
Acupoint massage is a health maintenance method developed by the Chinese. It is based upon the traditional theories of qi, blood visceral organs, meridians and collaterals and is characterized by pressing and rubbing on meridians, acupoints, muscles, and skin are as with different parts of the palms and fingers and varying degrees of force. This well illustrated massage book provides quick cures and permanent and temporary relief for more than fifty common ailments, including headaches, bronchial asthma, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, constipation, impotence, menstrual disorders, menopausal syndrome, infantile indigestion, stiff neck, acute lumbar sprain, and leg cramps. It also offers tips on how to improve the constitution, prevent diseases, and guarantee longevity. Acupoint massage may be practiced by patients or their family members. It is safe and simple, causes no inconvenience or pain, and can be applied to patients at any age.

9. Keep Fit the Chinese Way
(Traditional Chinese Therapeutic Exercise and Techniques)
Edited by: Hu Bin
Published by: Foreign Languages Press Beijing, 1991
This book introduces to the reader a unique rehabilitation medicine, including breathing exercises, traditional gymnastics for health, shadow boxing, muscle relaxation, five animal exercises, eight-part exercise, eighteen exercises, exercises in bed, massage, therapy, chiropractic, slapping, acupuncture-moxibustion, cupping, and bloodletting.

10. Eating Your Way to Health (Dietotherapy in Traditional Chinese Medicine
Compiled by: Cai Jingfeng)
Published by: Foreign Languages Press Beijing, 1996
Dietotherapy grew out of people's everyday experience with common food stuffs and has undergone continual refinement by generations physicians up to the present. Requiring only common materials, it is simple to follow and easily applied as well as being effective without harmful side-effects, which has made it very popular among Chinese people and increasingly so abroad. It systematically introduces the history of dietotherapy; the preparation, varieties and differential application of more than 100 medico-foods; and includes remedies for 42common illness. Readers can thus compound and apply the foods as their own conditions require to achieve a cure and greater health.

11. The Mystery of Longevity
Edited by: Liu Zhengcai
Published by: Foreign Languages Press Beijing, 1996
In China, based on the ancient established belief that man's natural life span is no less than a national tradition, advising longevity promoting practices from body-building exercises to willingness to help theirs. Drawing on materials both ancient and modern, author has given a comprehensive discussion on traditional Chinese longevity practices. The book also introduces some favorite body-building methods such as daolin exercises, games of five animals, limbering exercises for tendons, brocade exercises in twelve forms, quiescent qigong, massage, as well as recipes for food therapy, and traditional youth-preserving medicines. It is also a guidebook for participating in this ancient tradition.

12. Methods of Traditional Chinese Health Care
This is a guide to building up your health the Chinese way. It also offers quick cures for many common ailments, such as headaches, myopia, cervical spondylosis, periarthritis, back pain, leg cramps, hemorrhoids, insomnia, and lumbago. Its preventive health care approach saves trips to the hospital and helps avoid the side-effects of chemical medications. All the health care methods in this book are described within the framework of traditional Chinese medical theories, particularly the theory of meridians and collateral and the theory of qi. Because of their simplicity and effectiveness, these treatments and health theories are widely practiced.

13. The Location of Acupuncture (State Standard of the People's Republic of China)
Complied by: Institute of Acupuncture and Moxibustion of China Academy of TCM
Published by: Foreign Languages Press Beijing,
The book presents a thorough and accurate location of the points of the 14 meridians and a part of the extra points. More than 40 well known clinical acupuncture experts, medical literature experts, acupuncture anatomists, and basic theory experts have taken part in the research for working out this standard. This state standard went into effect in Jan.1992. All the units relating to medical treatment of acupuncture, teaching, and scientific research throughout China must follow it strictly under government supervision. The acupuncture nomenclature in this standard is based on the Standard Acupuncture Nomenclature appraised and approved by the WHO Scientific Working Group to Adopt a Standard International Acupuncture Nomenclature.

14. Imperial Medicaments
Medical Prescriptions Written for Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu with Commentary
Edited by: Chen Keji
Published by: Foreign Languages Press Beijing, 1996
China underwent centuries of feudal dynasties. Emperors and empresses, the surpreme dignity and power of the nation, benefited from the best medical care in different historical periods. Therefore, herbal prescriptions formulated for them did represent the highest level of TCM, particularly in the late Qing Dynasty. Empress Dowager Cixi was one who exercised the dictatorship over state power for many years. In those days, the most established TCM practitioners throughout China were summoned to the Forbidden City in service of her health and longevity. And prescriptions for those past emperors and empresses were called the secret remedies of the imperial palace.
Approaching from the philosophy of modern medicine and TCM, professor Chen Keji and his study group made painstaking efforts in sorting out these ancient medical files. With reliable sources of literature, the book is of high academic value and practicability.

15. China's New Achievements in Orthopedic Surgery
Edited by: Feng Chuanhan, Chen Baoxing, Gare Lecompte
Published by: New World Press, 1993
This book is a symposium of 28 articles by leading Chinese authors, reflecting the progress in orthopedic surgery and research in China in the last five years. The contents cover the following areas:

1.Spinal surgery with idiopathic scoliosis and cervicalspondylosis in particular;
2. Bio-mechanics and renovated designs of implants for internal fixation of fractures;
3. Interesting topics in general orthopedics, such as new approach to causalgia and nerve defect bridging, investigation on repair and regeneration of knee menisci and the evolution of discoid menisci, and endemic disorders like fluorosis with spinal cord compression and dendrolimus arthritis;
4. Hand surgery and podiatry;
5.Basic research on giant cell tumor of bone, cellular activities in fracture healing, inductive osteogenesis biomaterials, collagen in cartilage forming tumors and oxygen free radicals in osteoarthritis.
Most of the works had been presented in international forum and won recognition.

16. Essentials of Traditional Chinese Pediatrics
Compiled by: Cao Jiming, Xu Xinming, Cao Junqi
Published by: Foreign Languages Press Beijing, 1990
This book systematically expounds the basic knowledge of traditional Chinese pediatrics and the differentiation of syndromes and treatments of children diseases. Chinese herbal medicine is the main method of treatment. In order to enhance the therapeutic effects, acupuncture and Chinese massage therapy are also introduced according to actual conditions.
The book consists of two parts, namely, basic knowledge of traditional Chinese pediatrics and treatment of Diseases? There is an appendix in which Chinese massage therapy for children is introduced. An index of the selected recipes and patent medicines is arranged at the end of the book.
Pediatricians of both Chinese and western medicine, and acupuncture and massage practitioners will find this book a highly useful reference text.

17. Medicinal Plants in China
Catalogues the 150 species of medicinal plants most commonly used in traditional Chinese medicine. The book, which was compiled in collaboration with the Institute of Chinese Materia Medica, was produced in an effort to communicate knowledge about herbal medicine that has accumulated over thousands of years, has been confirmed through both empirical experience and scientific evaluation, and yet has rarely been published outside the Chinese literature. The book also responds to increasing respect for the value of medicinal plants as a source of efficacious and inexpensive new drugs that offer an important alternative to chemically synthesized medicines.

Each plant species is first documented by a full colour photograph taken under natural conditions during the flowering or fruiting season. Where relevant, a second photograph illustrates the plant parts from which the crude drug is extracted. Explanatory notes for each species cover botanical name and synonyms, Chinese name, English name, parts used, description of the plant, its habitat, and geographical distribution, and clinical indications and dosage. Some of the syndromes and clinical signs are described in traditional Chinese medical terminology. Information on indications and dosage is in keeping with theories for the prescription of medicinal plants taken from traditional Chinese pharmacology.

To facilitate retrieval of information, plant species are indexed according to botanical names, English names, names in Chinese phonetic alphabet, and Chinese (Han) characters. The book, which was compiled for reference and educational purposes, includes a note advising readers of the dangers of self-treatment.

(WHO Regional Publications, Western Pacific Series, No. 2

1989, 327 pages, 151 colour plates [E] ISBN 92 9061 102 2)

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