Clarification of TCM disease categories..books I used

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Chinese Traditional Medicine, " walmart_hurts " <jcc@c...> wrote:

> Thanks to everyone for the clarification. The deeper I go into TCM,

> the fewer translations I see. Time to enroll in some Chinese

> classes, I suppose. Does anyone have any book recommendations for

an

> English-speaking fellow interested in learning to read Medical

> Chinese??

>

> Mbanu

 

Hi, my best teaching books were those that are bilingual,

especially the 12 volume series:

A practical english-chinese library of traditional chinese medicine

which has english on one and chinese on the opposite page

at exactly the same line so you can immediately see

line by line translations.

Let me recommend you 2 out of 12 (trust me with this selection):

 

Basic Theory of TCM volume I (3$ in Peking)

http://www.china-guide.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?

Screen=PROD & Store_Code=C & Product_Code=b0036 & Category_Code=TP

 

Clinic of TCM volume II (8$ in Peking)

http://www.china-guide.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?

Screen=PROD & Store_Code=C & Product_Code=b0040 & Category_Code=TP

(trust me with this selection)

 

And get in contact with any chinese doctor in China

to get you:

Jian ming han ying ri zhong yi yao ci dian

concise chinese-english-japanese dictionary of chinese medicine

published by

ren min wei sheng chu ban she 1998

ISBN 7-117-02932-3

(costs $3.50 in Peking, pocketsize, 248p, 1cm thick, covering

everything you need)

 

Stay away from thick academic '36 lessons to teach you chinese' books,

as these will bore your inner child to death.

 

Edoardo Fazzioli wrote a very nice book on chinese characters

that makes it much easier to learn them.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-

/0896597741/ref=lib_rd_ss_TFFL/103-2102530-2103866?

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