OVERVIEW
CHINESE MEDICAL ETIOLOGY AND PATHOMECHANISM
CHINESE MEDICAL TREATMENT
Pattern Differentiation and Treatment
Additional Treatment Modalities
1.CHINESE PATENT MEDICINE
2.ACUPUNCTURE AND MOXlBUSTION
3.EXTERNAL APPLICATION
4.SIMPLE PRESCRIPTIONS AND EMPIRICAL FORMULAS
PROGNOSIS
PREVENTIVE HEALTHCARE
Lifestyle Modification
Dietary Recommendation
Regulation of Emotional and Mental Health
CLINICAL EXPERIENCE OF RENOWNED PHYSICIANS
Empirical Formulas
Selected Case Studies
Discussion
1.Zhu Ren-kang's five pattern of differentiation and treatment of urticaria.
2.Zhao Bing-nan's four pattern differentiatio in the treatment of urticaria —— cold,heat,and deficiency pattern with the bmphasis on wind evil.
3.Zhou Ming-qi believes that internal and external wind will damage the right qi,therefore the treatment of wind should be included in both internal and external therapies.
4.Liu Xue-qin treats urticaria mainly by dispening food[accumulation],abducting stagnation,couning wind and scattering cold.
5.Xi Feng-lin believes that the pattern differentiation and corresponding treatment of urticaria should include deficiency and excess pattern.
6.Gu Pi-rong treats stubborn urticaria by the four methods of dispelling,dispening,extinguishing,and controlling
7.He Ren treats urticaria by couning wind and resolving toxin
PERSPECTIVES OF INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE
Challenges and Solution
Challenge # 1:How to Prevent the Onet of Urticaria
Challenge #2:How to Reduce the Reoccurrence of Urticaria
Inight from Empirical Wisdom
Summary
SELECTED QUOTES FROM CLASSICAL TEXTS
MODERN RESEARCH
Clinical Research
1.PATTERN DIFFERENTIATION AND CORRESPONDING
TREATMENT
2.SPECIFIC FORMULAS
3.ACUPUNCTURE AND MOXIBUSTION
Experimental Studies
I.RESEARCH ON THE EFFICACY OF SINGLE CHINESE
MEDIClNALS
2.RESEARCH ON THE EFFICACY OF HERBAL
PRESCRIPTIONS
3.RESEARCH ON ACUPUNCTURE MECHANISM
REFERENCES
Index by Disease Names and Symptoms
Index by Chinese Medicinals and Formulas
General Index