Clinical Handbook of Internal Medicine: The Treatment of Disease with Traditional Chinese Medicine - Volume 1: Lung Kidney Liver Heart

This is the first volume of a three volume internal medicine series by Jane Lyttleton and William MacLean that should be in the library of every acupuncturist and practitioner of Oriental Medicine. The books are oriented around Organ Systems, with each set of Chinese Medicine diseases broken out by pattern. Each chapter looks at the major patterns, Chinese Medicine etiology, Western analogues, and gives symptoms, pulse, tongue, points, herbs and herbal modifications and prepared herbal formulas for each disease. Most chapters include a decision tree to identify patterns and a summary of herbs for each pattern although this volume has fewer than the others. I use the series in my TCM Internal Medicine Class and it is much easier for my students than before the books were published. If I had to make a bare minimum library for practicing TCM I would include the three books from this series, Lyttleton's Treatment of Infertility with Chinese Medicine, 1e, Either Chen's or Bensky's Materia Medica and Formulas books and Peter Deadman's A Manual of Acupuncture. Very worth the money.

This book has a lot of relevant information, it is concise and very organized. It is a great point of reference to have in your clinic as it includes TCM diagnosis as well as comparable western biomedicine diagnosis as well. I purchased all three books and love them all! They were a worthwhile investment!!!

I bought this book back in 2018 for my OIM classes and found it to be very organized and informative for a newbie to acupuncture. Fast forward to 2021 and I just purchased the newly released Internal Medicine combined textbook under someone's recommendation that is was 'more organized' and condensed with several new chapters. Sorry, but between the new vs old....I'm staying old school. It's was easier to find what I was looking for and there was less fluff and more stuff to me. Opinions vary but I'm sticking with what I know. This book is the best (imo)

A very descriptive well laid out book on basic traditional Chinese medicine disease patterns. A must have as a learning aid or a review for the clinic

It was full of notes and lines. Poor condition.

wonderful series of books - worth having

I bought this book for my class in TCM Internal Medicine and found it to be a nice supplement to the class and for using in clinic for review. The only thing I notice was that my instructor varied in some treatment methods compared to this book (which I am finding common in learning TCM from various Chinese doctors at my school). I plan to buy the other volumes of this series to complete my collection.

This book is a must have for any acupuncturist or aspiring acupuncture student

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