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Author: Guohui Liu
ISBN: 0-939616-34-3
The understanding and treatment of infectious and other
externally-contracted diseases has been a central concern of
Chinese medicine for millennia. Especially during the past
few centuries, the concepts and treatment approaches of the
warm disease school have percolated throughout Chinese
medical thought. Modern practitioners apply them in the
diagnosis and treatment of a wide variety of serious illnesses,
including many which are common in the West, such as auto-
immune disorders.
Warm Diseases: A Clinical Guide provides an in-depth,
clinically oriented approach to this important subject. The
introductory chapters tell the compelling story of how
traditional Chinese physicians, primarily from the seventeenth
through the nineteenth centuries, developed the theories and
concepts of warm disease in response to the health crises of
their time, which included a number of epidemics. The
evolution of their approach to etiology, pathogenesis,
diagnosis, and treatment, discussed in this volume,
demonstrates how traditional medicine has evolved to meet
contemporary needs.
The second part of the book describes the various types of
warm disease from a clinical perspective. Here the author
discusses the manifestations, pathogenesis, treatment
principles, and formulas for each type. Case histories show
how theory is actually applied in the clinic. A variety of
approaches is presented, which avoids the tendency to
portray traditional Chinese medicine as an unchanging,
monolithic entity. Over time, these differences have led to
much creative foment and improvement in the efficacy of
treatment. The author also addresses aspects of dosage and
preparation that are generally omitted from standard
textbooks. This part of the book will be particularly welcome
to practitioners, who will find it useful in the clinic.
Rounding out the volume is an extensive bibliography of
original source materials, supplemental case histories and
materia medica, and detailed indexes which provide access
to every aspect of this subject.
REVIEWS
"Warm Diseases: A Clinical Guide establishes a critical link
between warm disease theory and clinical practice. Above
and beyond its comprehensive coverage of warm disease
patterns, the Clinical Guide provides detailed information on
the dosing and administration of herbal formulas that is so
essential to effective therapy. All in all, Warm Diseases: A
Clinical Guide contains some of the most practical
information I have seen in any textbook of Chinese medicine."
—Charles Chace, L.Ac.
"One of the best Chinese medicine books to be published in
English. Finally we have a book that puts it all together---
theory, practice, historical perspective---written by an
experienced practitioner and teacher. Just when you thought
that Chinese medicine simply couldn't be transmitted in
English, a book like this comes along. . . Warm Diseases
shows us how a skillful writer and publisher can create an
instant classic. . . This book reads like that class you wish
you had in [warm diseases]"
—Douglas Eisenstark, Acupuncture.com
"I warmly recommend this book to anyone interested in warm
diseases. For the foreseeable future it will be the definitive
English language textbook on the topic, but it is more than
that . . . a guide into a field of medicine that no serious
practitioner of Chinese medicine should be without."
—Foreword by Volker Scheid, Ph.D.?/i>
"Warm Diseases: A Clinical Guide is the best English
introduction to warm disease theory to date. Liu's scholarly
interests and clinical abilities equip him well for the task of
portraying the deeper strata of Chinese medicine, and his
mindfulness about the psychology of the Western reader
makes this an entertaining work that goes well beyond the
common approach of the Chinese medical textbook
translation."
—Heiner Fruehauf, Chair of the Department of Classical Chinese Medicine, National College of Naturopa
"Warm Diseases: A Clinical Guide is a most impressive
book. . . . I find it to be well laid out, well bound, well
referenced, and full of information. Dr. Liu has obviously spent
a lot of time putting this information together so I would
encourage all serious practitioners to get it and read it."
—Pacific Journal of Oriental Medicine
"Establishes a critical link between warm disease theory and
clinical practice. Provides detailed information on the dosing
and administration of herbal formulas that is so essential to
effective therapy. Contains some of the most practical
information I have seen in any textbook of Chinese medicine."
—The European Journal of Oriental Medicine
"What sets this book apart from many others in our field is
that Dr. Liu shares his own clinical insights with the reader as
he develops an overall structure within which we can view
these ideas."
—The Journal of Chinese Medicine
CONTENTS
Foreword
Preface
Chapter 1 Historical Development of Warm Disease Theory
Chapter 2 General Description of Warm Diseases
Chapter 3 Etiology, Onset, and Pathogenesis of Warm Diseases
Chapter 4 Differentiation of Patterns According to the Theories of Four Levels and Three Burners
Chapter 5 Diagnosing Warm Diseases
Chapter 6 Treatment Methods for Warm Diseases
Chapter 7 Wind-Warmth
Chapter 8 Spring-Warmth
Chapter 9 Autumn-Dryness
Chapter 10 Warm-Toxin
Chapter 11 Summerheat-Warmth
Chapter 12 Damp-Warmth
Chapter 13 Lurking Summerheat
Bibliography
Appendix A: Table of Chinese Dynasties
Appendix B: Table of Authors
Appendix C: Supplemental Materia Medica
Appendix D: Case Studies
Appendix E: Pinyin-English Cross Reference of Formula Names
Formula Index
Materia Medica Index
General Index
