Publisher's Synopsis
In this volume, Dr. Lou Shao-kun, a formidable clinician and intellect regarded as one of the twentieth century's premier practitioners and scholars of jingfang herbalism, takes you step by step through his clinical process in this collection of over 70 case studies and his large corpus of medical essays.
`Key Features of this Book
`1. One of the first jingfang herbalism case study books available in English.
2.The first case study book in English to give detailed accounts of the use of abdominal diagnosis or fukushin in the treatment process for each case.
3. Often includes multiple cases using different techniques for one disease to illustrate the importance of formula pattern diagnosis in jingfang medicine. There are nine different case studies on infertility alone.
4. Detailed descriptions of Dr. Lou's signature style of combining jingfang herbalism, acumoxa and other external techniques.
5. Deep insights from the Kampo tradition rarely seen in Chinese medical books in China.
`This is Dr. Lou's gift to the medical world, a distillation of more than 40 years of medical experience in pure private clinical practice devoted to the pursuit of jingfang medical excellence.
