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Foreword ¢ñ As we are walking into the 21st century,
"health for all "is still an important task for the World Health
Organization (WHO) to accomplish in the new century. The realization of
"health for all" requires mutual cooperation and concerted efforts of
various medical sciences, including traditional medicine. WHO has increasingly
emphasized the development of traditional medicine and has made fruitful efforts
to promote its development. Currently the spectrum of diseases is changing and an
increasing number of diseases are difficult to cure. The side effects of
chemical drugs have become more and more evident. Furthermore, both the
governments and peoples in all countries are faced with the problem of high cost
of medical treatment. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), the complete system of
traditional medicine in the world with unique theory and excellent clinical
curative effects, basically meets the need to solve such
problems. Therefore,
bringing TCM into full play in medical treatment and healthcare will certainly
become one of the hot points in the world medical business in the 21st century.
Various aspects of work need to be done to promote the course of the
internationalization of TCM, especially the compilation of works and textbooks
suitable for international readers. The impending new century has witnessed the
compilation of such a series of books known as A Newly Compiled Practical
English-Chinese Library of Traditional Chinese Medicine published by the
Publishing House of Shanghai University of TCM, compiled by Nanjing University
of TCM. Professor Zuo Yafu, the general compiler-in-chief of this Library, is a
person who sets his mind on the international dissemination of TCM. He has
compiled General Survey on TCM Abroad, a monograph on the development and state
of TCM abroad. This Library is another important works written by the experts
organized by him with the support of Nanjing University of TCM and Shanghai
University of TCM. The compilation of this Library is done with consummate
ingenuity and according to the development of TCM abroad. The compilers, based
on the premise of preserving the genuineness and gist of TCM, have tried to make
the contents concise, practical and easy to understand, making great efforts to
introduce the abstruse ideas of TCM in a scientific and simple way as well as
expounding the prevention and treatment of diseases which are commonly
encountered abroad and can be effectively treated by TCM.
This Library encompasses a systematic summarization of the teaching experience
accumulated in Nanjing University of TCM and Shanghai University of TCM that run
the collaborating centers of traditional medicine and the international training
centers on acupuncture and moxibustion set by WHO. I am sure that the
publication of this Library will further promote the development of traditional
Chinese medicine abroad and enable the whole world to have a better
understanding of traditional Chinese medicine.
Professor Zhu Qingsheng
Vice-Minister of Health Ministry of the People's Republic of China
Director of the State Administrative Bureau of TCM
December 14, 2000 Beijing
Foreword ¢┛
Before the existence of the modern medicine, human beings depended solely on
herbal medicines and other therapeutic methods to treat diseases and preserve
health. Such a practice gave rise to the establishment of various kinds of
traditional medicine with unique theory and practice, such as traditional
Chinese medicine, Indian medicine and Arabian medicine, etc. Among these
traditional system of medicine, traditional Chinese medicine is a most
extraordinary on based on which traditional Korean medicine and Japanese
medicine have evolved.
Even in the 21st century, traditional medicine is still of great vitality. In
spite of the fast development of modern medicine, traditional medicine is still
disseminated far ad wide. In many developing countries, most of the people in the
rural areas still depend on traditional medicine and traditional medical
practitioners to meet the need for primary healthcare. Even in the countries
with advanced modern medicine, more and more people have begun to accept
traditional medicine and other therapeutic methods, such as homeopathy,
osteopathy and naturopathy, etc.
With the change of the economy, culture and living style in various regions
as well as the aging in the world population, the disease spectrum has changed.
And such a change has paved the way for the new application of traditional
medicine. Besides the new requirements initiated by the new diseases and the
achievements and limitations of modern medicine have also created challenges for
traditional medicine.
WHO sensed the importance of traditional medicine to human health early in
the 1970s and have made great efforts to develop traditional medicine. At the
29th world health congress held in 1976, the item of traditional medicine was
adopted in the working plan of WHO. In the following world health congresses, a
series of resolutions were passed to demand the member countries to develop,
utilize and study traditional medicine according to their specific conditions so
as to reduce medical expenses for the realization of "health for all
".
WHO has laid great stress on the scientific content, safe and effective
application of traditional medicine. It has published and distributed a series
of booklets on the scientific, safe and effective use of herbs and acupuncture
and moxibustion. It has also made great contributions to the international standardization of
traditional medical terms. The safe and effective application of traditional
medicine has much do with the skills of traditional medical practitioners. That
is why WHO has run 27 collaborating centers in the world which have made great
contributions to the training of acupuncturists and traditional medical
practitioners. Nanjing University of TCM and Shanghai University of TCM run the
collaborating centers with WHO. In recent years it has, with the cooperation of
WHO and other countries, trained about ten thousand international students from
over 90 countries.
In order to further promote the dissemination of traditional Chinese medicine
in the world, A Newly Compiled Practical English-Chinese Library of Traditional
Chinese Medicine, compiled by Nanjing University of TCM with Professor Zuo Yanfu
as the general compiler-in-chief and published by the Publishing House of
Shanghai University of TCM, aims at systematic, accurate and concise expounding
of traditional Chinese, medical theory and introducing clinical therapeutic
methods of traditional medicine according to modern medical nomenclature of
diseases. Undoubtedly, this series of books will be the practical textbooks for
the beginners with certain English level and the international enthusiasts with
certain level of Chinese to study traditional Chinese medicine. Besides, this
series of books can also serve as reference books for WHO to internationally
standardize the nomenclature of acupuncture and moxibustion.
The scientific, safe and effective use of traditional medicine will certainly
further promote the development of traditional medicine and traditional medicine
will undoubtedly make more and more contributions to human health in the 21st
century.
Zhang Xiaorui
WHO Coordination Officer
December, 2000
Contents
Part One General Introduction
1. Physiological and Pathological Characteristics of Infants
2. Essentials for Diagnosis of TCM Pediatrics
3. Essentials for Treatment of TCM Pediatrics
Part Two Specific Discussions
1. Common Cold
2. Cough
3. Asthma
4. Pneumonia
5. Aphtha
6. Anorexia
7. Infantile Malnutrition
8. Simple Obesity
9. Vitamin D Deficiency Rickets
10. Epigastralgia
11. Abdominal Pain
12. Diarrhea
13. Viral Myocarditis
14. Arrhythmia
15. Acute Glomerulonephritis
16. Chronic Glomerulonephritis
17. Nephrotic Syndrome
18. Infection of Urinary System
19.Iron-deficiency Anemia
20. Aplastic Anemia
21. Infantile Convulsion
22. Epilepsy
23. Cerebral Palsy
24. Hypophrenia
25. Flaccidity Syndrome
26 Hi-syndrome
27. Hydrocephalus
28. Enuresis
29. Infantile Hyperactive Syndrome
30. Gilles de la Tourettes Syndrome
31. Sexual Precocity
32. Allergic Purpura
Section Two Other Diseases
1. Neonatal Jaundice
2. Scleredema Neonatorum
3. Rubella
4.Chickenpox
5. Epidemic Parotitis
6. Ascariasis
7. Oxyuriasis
8. Taeniasis
Postscript
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