Intelligent use of traditional Chinese medicine / Ping-Chung Leung -- Modalities of Chinese medicine / Charlie Changli Xue & Kylie A. O'Brien -- The theoretical framework of Chinese medicine / Kylie A. O'Brien & Charlie Changli Xue -- Problems and challenges of Chinese herbal medicine / Chun Guang Li, Keith Moyle & Charlie Changli Xue -- Biochemistry and herbs / Simon Ming Yuen Lee [and others] -- How does acupuncture work? / Zhen Zheng -- More theories about acupuncture / Baoyu Xin -- The state of Chinese medicine in China today / Ping-Chung Leung -- Globalisation of Chinese medicine / Yung-Chi Cheng -- Practice and research on Chinese medicine outside of China / Qunhao Zhang -- Clinical trials using Chinese medicine / Ping-Chung Leung -- Modernisation of Chinese medicine : an anthropologist's view / Ting Hor -- Information systems in Chinese medicine / Pak Kwan Hui & Esther Ma -- The future / Ping-Chung Leung & Charlie Changli Xue.
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This volume is aimed at those who are concerned about Chinese medicine - how it works, what its current state is and, most important, how to make full use of it. The audience therefore includes clinicians who want to serve their patients better and patients who are eager to supplement their own conventional treatment. The authors of the book belong to three different fields, modern medicine, Chinese medicine and pharmacology. They provide information from their areas of expertise and concern, attempting to make it comprehensive for users. The approach is macroscopic and philosophical; readers convinced of the philosophy are to seek specific assistance.