Publisher's Synopsis
In order to illustrate fully how an acupuncturist may make use of this manual in clinical practice, we will use the following actual clinical cases taken from established Chinese medical journals: Clinical Case No.1 (from Chinese Medical Journal July '59) Name of patient: Mr. Zhong. Age:42. Sex: male. Symptoms: pain in the throat, pain on swallowing with some difficulty in swallowing, light fever with fear of cold. Chinese diagnosis: hot lungs and wind-heat. Treatment: to sedate heat and produce fluids. Clinical Case No.2 (from New Chinese Medical journal, 1980) Symptoms: diagnosed in Western medicine as anaphylactoid purpura with the following symptoms: headache, dizziness, local edema, abdominal pain, arthritis, irregular low grade fever, haemorrhages into the skin, red spots on upper extremities. Chinese diagnosis: hot blood; spleen unable to govern blood; attack of wind. Clinical Case No.3 (from Shanghai Acupuncture journal 1983) Name of patient: Chen. Age:50. Sex: male. Symptoms: diagnosed in Western medicine as herpes zoster with the following skin eruptions as big as soy beans in the right ribs area with severe pain particularly at night which affects sleeping conditions, sliding and rapid pulse, with a yellowish and greasy coating of tongue. Chinese diagnosis: liver-gall damp-he
