Western Herbs according to Traditional Chinese Medicine: A Practitioner’s Guide
Posted by on May 4, 2010
Product Description
The first book to exclusively use Chinese medical theories and terminology to guide practitioners of Chinese medicine in the use of Western herbs
• Written entirely according to the theory, diagnosis, and t… More >>
Western Herbs according to Traditional Chinese Medicine: A Practitioner’s Guide
It is a beautiful book, in fact, it seems more like a coffee table book as a practical manual Real. There are many beautiful full page color photos, but not as much information as I had hoped. The text and the approach is good, albeit authoritarian, but I expected to find much in common western herbs listed. I live in Europe and most of the herbs in the book are specific to North America. Beautiful book, but not as useful as I had hoped.
Rating: 3 / 5
As a practitioner of Western medicine and Chinese herbal, I am delighted to see this book in print. This book contains many features that are unique to clinical guidelines in the traditional Chinese medical literature in print in the West. Firstly, the photographs taken by the author are magnificent, unparalleled in any herbal clinics, I know. Joining TCM terminology makes the book more coherent than the other attempts to take on this task in the past that should facilitate the inclusion of Western herbs included in a clinical setting for the practitioner. Especially commitment are both the authors comment on the combination of drugs for specific conditions and combine the herbs with Western Chinese formulas. Also of value in the scholarly commentary is extraordinary – the best tour of 2,000 years of the medical and clinical textbooks of both herbal traditions. I could go on, but hey, just buy the book. . .
Rating: 5 / 5
Thomas Avery Garran has written an excellent book, combining his extensive experience in using herbs in the West in Chinese medicine with a thorough understanding of the energetics of herbs. Although there were a couple of previous books attempting to use herbs in the Western Chinese herbslism sophisticated, it lacks the serious errors in determination of Herbal Energetics Holmes of West and is more extensive than the big book of Jeremy Ross, combining Western herbs and Chinese medicine. His practical experience of each herb profile gives this book an edge, and its ability to compare similar western China using Chinese herbal medicine in the form of a tradition of locally-based plants. The book can make use of the generally cooler and U.S. organic herbs while using the original genius of Chinese medical diagnosis.
Rating: 5 / 5
Very good book. Everything you need to know about the subject you will find in this book.
Rating: 5 / 5
Western Herbs According to Traditional Chinese Medicine: A Practitioner’s Guide offers up some 58 monographs, illustrated with color photographs, of herbs commonly used by Western herbalists. Each plant is grouped by the basic categorization for medicinal plants in Chinese medicine, literature dealing with functions, the determination, preparation and cons-indications. Any herbal collection must have this index in depth of Chinese herbal formulas used in the West.
Rating: 5 / 5