Theoretical Foundations of Chinese Medicine: Systems of Correspondence

by Manfred Porkert

Book Overview

Although in the United States the scientific value of acupuncture is only now being clinically evaluated for the first time, needling is only one of a number of therapeutic disciplines which have proved effective in China for over two thousand years and which today provide common remedies for more than one quarter of the world's population. Why, asks Dr. Porkert, shouldn't medical men everywhere have access to the premises and results of this medical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262660407
• ISBN13: 9780262660402
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.