Yang Jiasan

This book is the Yang Jiasan volume in the "Century of a Hundred Clinical Masters of Chinese Medicine" series. Professor Yang Jiasan was a renowned contemporary acupuncturist who devoted himself over many years to research on meridian and acupoint theory and needling techniques, accumulating rich experience in decades of clinical practice. Following the series' uniform format, the book is divided into a brief biography of the physician, treatment of specific diseases, miscellaneous clinical notes, a chronological biography, and appendices. The biography recounts Yang Jiasan's background, his formative experiences, and the development of his academic thought, showing how he resolved to study medicine, trained himself to become a master, and contributed to the advancement of acupuncture. The treatment of specific diseases is the main body, discussing by disease category stroke, headache, dizziness, epilepsy, insomnia, facial paralysis, facial pain, cough, asthma, stomach pain, vomiting, chest and hypochondriac pain, constipation, diabetes, edema, strangury, bi syndrome, wei syndrome, cervical spondylosis, low back pain, dysmenorrhea, abnormal uterine bleeding, enuresis, malaria, cholera, Japanese encephalitis, and tinnitus and deafness. Each disease is generally covered through etiology, symptoms, treatment, differential diagnosis, and precautions, with cases appended, highlighting his distinctive approach of combining acupuncture with medication, treating internal and external aspects together, and selecting formulas and points. The miscellaneous clinical notes set out his academic thinking on acupoint location, filiform needling techniques, the rules governing indications of meridian points, the eight confluence points, and the use of head acupoints; the appendix includes the essentials of Yang Jiasan's Experience in Point Location for easy reference. The book is richly documented and is a reference for clinical practitioners of Chinese and integrated Chinese-Western medicine and for students of acupuncture.