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This is a specialized treatise on acupuncture and moxibustion for clinical use, collecting the therapeutic techniques used in these methods of treatment for 130 kinds of common and intractable diseases in the fields of internal medicine, surgery, gynecology, paediatrics, ENT and dermatology. For each disease, the etiology and pathogenesis, major clinical manifestations, routine methods of syndrome differentiation and acupoint prescription are elaborated in three parts respectively: Introduction, Clinical Experience and Remarks. The book concentrates on examples of simple, practical, and markedly effective clinical experience (about 2000 instances). The precautions that need to be taken during treatment are also pointed out. Appended are the "Index to Extra Acupoints" and the "Index to Chinese Materia Medica," for readers' reference.
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