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A Portable Reference
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By
Susanna Dowie, MA, LicAC, MBAAcC, HonMRCHM, MATCM, Principal, London College of Traditional Acupuncture, London, UK
Description
ACUPUNCTURE: AN AID TO DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS gives a comprehensive conventional and acupuncture differential diagnosis, referenced by
presenting condition and by acupuncture diagnosis. Presented in an accessible format, spiral bound and with a horizontal cut on each
page, it gives the practitioner and student access to a handy and portable memory aid to differential diagnosis.
Audience
All students and practitioners of Chinese medicine
Contents
Each page is cut horizontally once, making four sections on a double page spread. As described above, the top pair of sections will be
occupied by the Western and Chinese medicine differential diagnosis of a given condition. The sections below will be occupied by one
of the Chinese medicine syndromes listed together with the acupuncture and lifestyle advice appropriate. The cut pages can be turned
independently to enable rapid reference and comparison.
Western Medicine and Chinese medicine differential diagnosis
Headaches
Dizziness
Breathlessness
Wheezing
Asthma
Allergic rhinitis
Sinusitis
Cough
Mental-emotional problems
Insomnia
Tinnitus
Tiredness and diabetes
Chest Painful Obstruction
Syndrome
Epigastric Pain
Hypochodrial Pain
Abdominal Pain
Abdominal Masses
Diarrhoea
Constipation
Painful Urination
Syndrome
Enuresis and incontinence
Oedema (nephritis)
Lower backache and sciatica
ME, (PVS, Epstein Barr)
Parkinsons disease
and multiple sclerosis
Wind stroke
Bleeding and Dysmenorrhoea
Menorrhagia and metrorrhagia and PMT
Menopause
Common cold
and influenza
Infertility and polycystic ovary syndrome
Skin problems
Musculoskeletal and painful obstruction syndrome
Chinese
Medicine Syndromes
Bladder Heat (or Damp Heat)
Blood Heat
Cold in the Intestines
Cold Invading the Stomach
Cold Phlegm
Damp
Heat
Damp Heat in the Intestines
Damp Heat in the Spleen
Dampness in the Spleen
Damp Phlegm (or Cold Phlegm) in the Lungs
Deficiency
of Qi and Empty Cold in the Abdomen
Gall Bladder Damp Heat
Gall Bladder deficiency
Gall Bladder Fire (or Heat)
Heart Blood
Deficiency
Heart Blood Stasis
Heart Fire
Heart Qi Deficiency
Heart Yang Deficiency
Heart Yin Deficiency
Heat in Intestines
Kidney
Essence Deficiency
Kidney Yang Deficiency
Kidney Yin Deficiency
Liver Blood Deficiency
Liver Fire Blazing
Liver Yang Rising
Liver
Yin Deficiency
Liver Yin Deficiency with Empty Heat
Liver Wind
Lung Dryness
Lung Heat
Lung Phlegm Heat
Lung Qi Deficiency
Lung
Qi Obstructed
Lung Yin Deficiency
Lung Yin Deficiency with Empty Heat
Phlegm fire
Phlegm Fluids in the Stomach
Phlegm
Fluids (or turbid Phlegm) in the Lungs
Phlegm Heat harassing the Mind
Retention of Food
Spleen Blood Deficiency
Spleen Qi
Deficiency
Spleen Yang Deficiency
Spleen Yin Deficiency
Stagnant Liver Qi invading the Lungs
Stagnation of Cold in the Liver
channel
Stagnation of Liver Qi
Stagnation of Liver Qi invading the Stomach
Stagnation of Qi
Stasis of Liver Blood
Stasis
of Blood
Stasis of Blood in the Stomach
Stomach Damp Heat
Stomach Deficiency
Stomach Fire
Stomach Heat
Stomach Phlegm
Fire
Stomach Yin Deficiency
Turbid Phlegm (or Wind Phlegm or Phlegm Fluids)
Wind Cold Invading the Lungs
Wind Dampness
Wind
Dryness
Wind Heat invading the Lungs
| Bibliographic details |
Hardbound, 120 pages, publication date: OCT-2008
ISBN-13: 978-0-443-06867-6
ISBN-10: 0-443-06867-4
Imprint: CHURCHILL LIVINGSTONE
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Last update: 10 Sep 2009
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