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Urticaria

OVERVIEW

CHINESE MEDICAL ETIOLOGY AND PATHOMECHANISM

CHINESE MEDICAL TREATMENT

Pattern Differentiation and Treatment

Additional Treatment Modalities

1. CHINESE PATENT MEDICINE

2. ACUPUNCTURE AND MOXlBUSTION

3. EXTERNAL APPLICATION

4. SIMPLE PRESCRIPTIONS AND EMPIRICAL FORMULAS

PROGNOSIS

PREVENTIVE HEALTHCARE

Lifestyle Modification

Dietary Recommendation

Regulation of Emotional and Mental Health

CLINICAL EXPERIENCE OF RENOWNED PHYSICIANS

Empirical Formulas

Selected Case Studies

Discussions

1. Zhu Ren-kang's five patterns of differentiation and treatment of urticaria..

2. Zhao Bing-nan's four pattern differentiations in the treatment of urticaria -- cold, heat, and deficiency patterns with the bmphasis on wind evil.

3. Zhou Ming-qi believes that internal and external wind will damage the right qi, therefore the treatment of wind should be included in both internal and external therapies.

4. Liu Xue-qin treats urticaria mainly by dispersing food [accumulation], abducting stagnation, coursing wind and scattering cold.

5. Xi Feng-lin believes that the pattern differentiation and corresponding treatment of urticaria should include deficiency and excess patterns.

6. Gu Pi-rong treats stubborn urticaria by the four methods of dispelling, dispersing, extinguishing, and controlling

7. He Ren treats urticaria by coursing wind and resolving toxin

PERSPECTIVES OF INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE

Challenges and Solutions

Challenge # 1 : How to Prevent the Onset of Urticaria

Challenge #2: How to Reduce the Reoccurrence of

Urticaria

Insight from Empirical Wisdom

Summary

SELECTED QUOTES FROM CLASSICAL TEXTS

MODERN RESEARCH

Clinical Research

1. PATTERN DIFFERENTIATION AND CORRESPONDING

TREATMENT

2. SPECIFIC FORMULAS

3. ACUPUNCTURE AND MOXIBUSTION

Experimental Studies

I. RESEARCH ON THE EFFICACY OF SINGLE CHINESE

MEDIClNALS

2. RESEARCH ON THE EFFICACY OF HERBAL

PRESCRIPTIONS

3. RESEARCH ON ACUPUNCTURE MECHANISM

REFERENCES

Index by Disease Names and Symptoms

Index by Chinese Medicinals and Formulas

General Index