The Practice of Chinese Medicine

The Practice of Chinese Medicine is a companion volume of the Foundations of Chinese Medicine, illustrating the application of the theories of Chinese medicine to the treatment of various diseases with both acupuncture and Chinese herbs. The book discusses the treatment of 34 common disease symptoms, some being Chinese medical "disease-symptoms" (such as "Headache" or "Abdominal Pain") and some being modern bio-medically defined diseases (such as Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, asthma, allergic rhinitis and sinusitis). Four of the diseases discussed appear for the first time in a Chinese medical textbook, i.e. asthma, allergic rhinitis, ME and multiple sclerosis. For each disease, the exposition includes aetiology, pathology, identification of patterns, treatment of each pattern with acupuncture and Chinese herbs, prognosis, and the Western medical differential diagnosis linking Western and Chinese symptomatology. A particular feature of the book is a lengthy appendix discussing the principles of combination of points in a detailed and innovative way. The chapter on mental-emotional problems (the longest one) discusses the diagnosis, pathology and treatment of mental-emotional problems proposing a new classification of problems due to Mind Obstructed, Mind Unsettled and Mind Weakened; it also discusses in detail the nature of Shen, Hun, Po, Yi and Zhi.

The diseases discussed are:

  • Headaches

  • Dizziness

  • Breathlessness

  • Wheezing

  • Asthma

  • Allergic rhinitis

  • Sinusitis

  • Cough

  • Mental-emotional problems

  • Insomnia

  • Tinnitus

  • Tiredness

  • Chest Painful Obstruction Syndrome

  • Epigastric Pain

  • Hypochondrial Pain

  • Abdominal Pain

  • Abdominal Masses

  • Diarrhoea

  • Constipation

  • Painful-Urination Syndrome

  • Enuresis and Incontinence

  • Oedema

  • Painful Obstruction Syndrome

  • Lower backache and sciatica

  • Myalgic encephalomyelitis

  • Parkinson's Disease

  • Wind-stroke

  • Atrophy Syndrome

  • Multiple Sclerosis

  • Bleeding

  • Dysmenorrhoea

  • Menorrhagia and metrorrhagia

  • Pre-menstrual tension

  • Common cold and influenza



Particular features of the book are:

  • The diagnosis and treatment of modern diseases such as allergic asthma/eczema, ME (CFIDS) and MS
  • Detailed discussion of prognosis and prevention of most diseases
  • Over 150 case histories with detailed explanation of the diagnostic process and analysis of treatment
  • An 8-page colour plate section with tongue slides to clarify diagnoses.


  • "The publication of this book will certainly help the integration of Western with Chinese medicine...Giovanni Maciocia has flexibly applied what he has learned in China to the conditions in the West".
    -From the foreword by Prof. Zhou Zhong Ying.




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    Published by Churchill Livingstone
    First published: 1994. Latest edition: 1997. ISBN: 0-443-043051. 924 pages.

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