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The Practice of Chinese Medicine
The diseases discussed are:
Particular features of the book are:
"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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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.