Expert Clinic (Traditional Chinese Medicine Volume), Book 2

Expert Clinic (Traditional Chinese Medicine Volume) is a compiled clinical reference on traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) diagnosis and treatment, edited by Lu Xiangzhi and published by Shanxi Science and Technology Press. Its first volume appeared in 1994 and gathered topical articles by dozens of leading TCM clinicians of the time; organized by disease, it introduces for each condition the pattern identification and typing, etiology and pathogenesis, treatment methods and formulas, and clinical experience. The conditions covered are mainly internal medicine, with some gynecology, andrology, oncology and selected difficult and miscellaneous diseases, such as emphysema and cor pulmonale, bronchial asthma, coronary heart disease, hypertension, chronic gastritis, ulcerative colitis, cholelithiasis, stroke, menopausal syndrome, uterine fibroids, hyperplasia of the mammary glands, male infertility, aplastic anemia, epilepsy and rheumatoid arthritis. It represents a concentrated compilation of TCM clinical experience in the 1990s. This book is the second volume of the series and follows the first volume's editorial approach of "one disease, one topic, written by an expert," continuing to collect expert-clinic-style articles on pattern identification and treatment so that clinicians can look up formulas by disease and consult them side by side. Because the independent copyright-page information for Volume 2 is difficult to verify through public channels, its specific contents, contributing experts and publication year should be based on the original book. As a whole, the series' value lies in preserving the diagnostic and treatment approaches and prescribing experience of a group of renowned senior TCM physicians for common, chronic and difficult diseases; it can serve as a reference reader for clinical pattern identification rather than a systematic textbook.