Medical Talks of the Yangtze

Medical Talks of the Yangtze is one of the Five Medical Talks series compiled by the Traditional Chinese Medicine Theory Collation Research Committee of the China Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine, alongside Medical Talks of Yanshan, Medical Talks of the Yellow River, Medical Talks of the North, and Medical Talks of the South. It mainly collects medical essays written by TCM practitioners from the Yangtze River regions of Sichuan, Tibet, Yunnan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Anhui, Jiangsu, and Shanghai. The pieces are mostly short and pithy, around a thousand characters each, yet integrate clinical experience, reading notes, and new scholarly insights, touching on the Shanghan, Wenbing, and Jinkui traditions, internal medicine, orthopedics and traumatology, external sores, gynecology, pediatrics, the five sense organs, acupuncture, proctology, tuina, qigong, ethnic medicine, Chinese herbal medicine, and folk remedies. Among the authors are famous senior physicians over fifty as well as some middle-aged TCM doctors who graduated from higher TCM colleges before 1966 or hold equivalent qualifications, so the experience of two generations of physicians meets in one book. The volume includes interpretations and teaching reflections on classics such as the Inner Canon, the Treatise on Cold Damage, and the Essential Prescriptions of the Golden Casket, as well as concrete clinical topics such as successes and failures in pattern differentiation, correcting misdiagnoses, idiosyncratic constitutions, and the elderly's deficiency complicated by stasis and phlegm; it also preserves historical and cultural fragments such as Tibetan medicine's embryology, Su Shi and TCM, and Chengdu's pre-liberation TCM hospitals, letting readers understand the academic landscape of Yangtze-region TCM from multiple angles. This edition is the 2015 reset by Beijing Science and Technology Press.