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This book brings together his experience gleaned from the last 38 years. Any book which boasts pages is obviously a sizeable tome. It is published in a highly readable manner with clear font and layout.
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Authors such as Michael Tierra and Peter Holmes immediately spring to mind as obvious antecedents. This book however raises this nascent subject to a previously unobtained level of academic excellence. For instance, at the end of most chapters there are over 40 references up to 90 for some to support the topics discussed. The references are exhaustive, and the information contained throughout the book represents the most up-to-date sources available at the time of going to print.
Ross has expanded traditional syndromes with clinical observations from his experience.
Heart qi irregularity, uterus stagnant qi , and kidney stagnant qi amongst others are introduced as non-traditional categories. After the obligatory foreword and explanation of terminology, the main body of the book is divided into two sections: Part 1 Herbal medicine in theory and practice and Part 2 Materia Medica. Finally we have a section comprising Additional herbs.
The Appendices are: Glossary, Healing crises, Herb properties, Herb names and a cross reference section before the Index. The first part has ten chapters entitled: History, Temperature, Taste, Actions, Actions glossary, Principles of herb combination, Practical herb combination, Dose, Safety, Safety and the organ system, Safety in clinical practice.
The second part, Materia Medica, has 50 individual herbs, starting with Achillea and ending with Zingiber. Before the appendices there is a section on additional herbs which have been mentioned as combinations but do not have a full entry themselves.
These are questions for future research. In Herbal Clinical Practicum 1 HCP , students are required to undertake 60 hours of clinical practicum working in a public student clinic. Hou Jinglun, et al. Network analyses in systems pharmacology. It has been translated only recently , 2nd edition into English with the title Longevity and life Preservation in Eastern Medicine.
I would not imagine breezily advising an interested lay person to invest in this excellent scholarly work. From the first chapter on History the book compares and contrasts the western tradition with TCM with Phytotherapy. The chapters on Temperature and Taste neatly compares the oriental and occidental traditions and offers a framework for curious practitioners to begin to arrive at their own unique, personal understandings.
If herbs having specific, fixed temperatures has become a limiting factor in prescribing, this concept creates a flow of expansion, opening up a multitude of possibilities. Actions and Action glossary provides again a useful area for contrast.
The following chapter on Actions glossary explains that anti-tussives generally come from TCM categories like herbs that transform phlegm and stop cough, but also tonify yin fluids and clear heat, or herbs that calm the heart spirit. The different ways of delivering herbs is looked at, water based extraction, ethanol tinctures, Glycerol, etc and the question of a therapeutic or not dose raised.
Digoxin and Crataegus. It is another example of the care and the thoroughness this book exhibits.
Part 2 Materia Medica looks at 50 herbs in detail. Additionally the book contains a wonderfully detailed index and valuable tables for cross referencing, including the Chinese characters for herbs botanically related to the ones discussed. Each herb in the materia medica section is dealt with Author: Bob Quinn.
Date: Oct. Publisher: The Journal of Chinese Medicine. Document Type: Book review.