Author Description

Product Description This book focuses on bringing to TCM professionals colloquial and practical English embodying the medical historytaking techniques of TCM, aiming to guide TCM professionals in their inquiries into symptoms of patients in appropriate ways. The book may also help TCM professionals understand how to interpret and describe symptoms from the perspective of medicine as well as from those of other cultural elements. By using this book, TCM professionals will be able to question patients with different cultural backgrounds in a clear and accurate way, to acquire the genuine medical history of the latter. About the Author Xie Zhufan, born in 1925, is an emeritus professor of traditional Chinese medicine and integrative medicine at the Peking University First Medical School. He was appointed eleven times by the WHO as a temporary or short-term consultant of traditional mediine during the period 1985-2005.