An Introduction to Chinese Medicine
by Sean Christiaan Valentine-Marshall, D.Ac. and Bonnie L Walker, DC If you are already familiar with Chinese medicine as it is currently practiced then you may not be very comfortable with much of what you are about to read. If you are new to the field or have an open inquisitive mind you are in for a treat. This introduction to Chinese medicine purposely breaks away from the styles of previous attempts to explain Chinese medicine which present the Chinese concepts and then remanufacture them into something else that fits into a familiar Western paradigm. This has never worked, nor will it ever. Chinese medical concepts are nothing like Western medical concepts and the criteria [...]