INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE: A New Approach to Medical Diagnosis & Treatment

INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE: A New Approach to Medical Diagnosis & Treatment
ISBN-10
0578028247
ISBN-13
9780578028248
Series
Integrative Medicine
Category
Health & Fitness
Pages
661
Language
English
Published
2009-07
Publisher
Lulu.com
Authors
M.D., Jun Liu

Description

Integrative medicine emphasizes the combination of both conventional and alternative approaches to address many aspects of health and illness. It is a state-of-the-art modern medical care drawn from the very best medicine strategies. This book presents the readers with a brief but thorough understanding of various common clinical disorders and traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) theories. It demonstrates the readers how diseases are diagnosed and treated by conventional medicine and Chinese medicine; it guides the readers through the process of evaluating symptoms and accurately prescribing herbs or herbal formula; it offers the readers lots of modifications of herbal formulas that will further enhance the clinical results. In addition, it offers readers a variety of strategies, treatment principles, detailed prescriptions for coping with common clinical diseases, and it offers doctors very workable and practical tools to easily apply TCM to their daily medical practice.

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