Atlas of Chinese Tongue Diagnosis (2nd Edition)
Book Features
- Author: Barbara Kirschbaum
- Language: English
- ISBN10: 0939616718
Book Overview
>>>Tongue diagnosis is a important instrument employed in Chinese medicine both to assess the present wellness of a patient and to offer a basis for prognosis. It also informs the practitioner about the underlying strength or weakness of the patient s constitution. This new edition of Atlas of Chinese Tongue Diagnosis contains over two hundred color photographs of tongues seen in a Western clinic. The pictures supply a graphic representation of a wide variety of typical disorders. Every single photograph is accompanied by a description of the substantial attributes of the tongue, the corresponding Chinese diagnosis for each feature, accompanying symptoms, Western diagnosis, and pertinent background details. The sequence of the pictures inside a chapter shows the rising degree of imbalance among the physique s energies. The presentation of the tongues is organized according to the nature of the underlying organ disharmony: Lungs, Spleen, Stomach, Kidney, Heart, Liver. Other chapters concentrate on particular aspects of the tongue such as pale tongues, cracked tongues, special coatings, as properly as these linked with heat disorders and blood stasis. A final chapter surveys many situations that reflect how the tongue altered more than the course of remedy, with prior to and right after photographs. This systematic presentation gives the student and practitioner with a much deeper understanding of the methodology of tongue diagnosis in Chinese medicine. This new second edition of the Atlas combines and reconfigures the content material of the two volumes in the original edition into 1 new, integrated volume. The new edition retains most of the photos from the first volume and a amount of situation histories from the second. A handful of new photographs that are particul…
