© Columbia University Press
February, 1995
Paper, 479 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-10359-6
$31.00
/ £18.00
For more than four thousand years, Chinese scholars and medical practitioners have documented ways of maintaining health and treating illness, from theories of yin-yang and the zang-fu organs to the use of herbs and acupuncture. The Essential Book of Traditional Chinese Medicine marks the first time such concepts have been made accessible to Westerners in a comprehensive form.—Science and Technology Reference Review