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"This is a monograph in which methods of treatment of common diseases and knowledge of dietetic restraint in traditional Chinese medicine are expounded systematically. The book is written with more than thirty diseases and syndromes such as common cold, cough, epigastralgia, diabetes, obstruction of qi in the chest and stroke as the key links, and each disease or syndrome is explained in detail in terms of its etiology and pathogenesis, its differential diagnosis and treament and its dietetic restraint during treatment."