For more than four thousand years, Chinese scholars and medical practitioners have documented ways of maintaining health and treating illness, from theories of "yin-yang" and the "zang-fu" organs to the use of herbs and acupuncture. "The Essential Book of Traditional Chinese Medicine" marks the first time such concepts have been made accessible to Westerners in a comprehensive form.

For more than four thousand years, Chinese scholars and medical practitioners have documented ways of maintaining health and treating illness, from theories of "yin-yang" and the "zang-fu" organs to the use of herbs and acupuncture. "The Essential Book of Traditional Chinese Medicine" marks the first time such concepts have been made accessible to Westerners in a comprehensive form.