The Web That Has No Weaver : Understanding Chinese Medicine

The Web That Has No Weaver : Understanding Chinese Medicine
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by Ted J. Kaptchuk

Synopsis

Completely and thoroughly revised, The Web That Has No Weaver is the classic, comprehensive guide on the theory and practice of Chinese medicine. This accessible and invaluable resource has earned its place as the foremost authority in the synthesizing of Western and Eastern healing practices.

Ted J. Kaptchuk, O.M.D., is associate director of the Center for Alternative Medicine Research and Education at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.

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This volume introduces readers to Eastern medicine and synthesizes some aspects of these ancient traditions with modern Western medicine. Kaptchuk, O.M.D., associate director of the Center for Alternative Medicine Research and Education at Beth Israel Deaconness Medical Center, discusses the ideas of Qi, Essence, Spirit, and Fluids, as well as the basics of acupuncture and herbology. The bulk of the book focuses on the notion of harmony, the body's patterns, and signs of disharmony. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Biography

Ted J. Kaptchuk, O.M.D., is associate director of the Center for Alternative Medicine Research and Education at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Table of Contents
 Acknowledgments XI
 Foreword XIII
 Foreword XVII
 Author's Note XIX
 The Pinyin Phonetic Alphabet XXI
 Introduction to New Edition XXIII

1. Medicine East and West: Two Ways of Seeing, Two Ways of Thinking and the landscape patterns of nature and humans 1
2. The Fundamental Textures: Qi, Blood, Essence, Spirit, and Fluids or the basic ingredients of human life 41
3. The Organs of the Body: The Harmonious Landscape and on anatomy and its absence 75
4. The Meridians: The Warp and Woof and on acupuncture and herbology 105
5. Origins of Disharmony: Stormy Weather or when a cause is not a cause 143
6. The Four Examinations: Signs and Symptoms and Aristotle and Lao Tzu revisited 171
7. The Eight Principal Patterns: The Faces of Yin and Yang the patterns' basic texture and composition 215
8. The Patterns of the Human Landscape the details of the clinical scene 239
9. Chinese Medicine as an Art or on the Penetrating Divine Illumination 283
10. The Web That Has No Weaver--and Mount Sinai or on the location of truth 295

 Appendixes  
A. The Stages of Disease: A Series of Clinical Scenes 307
B. Yang Organs in Disharmony 315
C. Pulses Revisited 323
D. The Curious Organs 351
E. The Scientific Encounter with East Asian Medicine: Efficacy and Adverse Effects 355
F. The Five Phases (Wu Xing) 437
G. Historical Bibliography: Links in the Chain of Transmission 453
H. Selected Bibliography 465
 Index 483

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