Chinese External Medicine (DVD included)

Chinese External Medicine is a branch of TCM concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of conditions of the body’s surface, unlike TCM Internal Medicine whereby the focus is on internal organ systems. External medicine, or wai ke, refers to conditions that can be seen by the eye of palpated directly such as traumatic injuries, skin diseases, breast lumps, hemorrhoids, male genital problems, and so on. Despite the common nature of many conditions covered by Chinese external medicine, until the publication of this book little had been done to introduce these essential diagnostic and treatment methods to the West. Eight chapters in the text are devoted to the diagnosis and treatment of sores and ulcerations, breast conditions, goiter, skin lesions, sexually transmitted diseases, anorectal conditions, male urogenital conditions, peripheral vascular disease, and other external conditions, with 92 external conditions in total. Internal therapies, medicinal formulas, external applications, and acupuncture treatments.