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Foreword ¢ñ
As we are walking
into the 21st century, ¡＜health for all¡＼ is still an
important task for the World Health Organization (WHO)
to accomplish in the new century. The realization of
¡＜health for all¡＼ requires mutual cooperation and
concerted efforts of various medical sciences, including
traditional medicine. WHO has increasingly emphasized
the development of traditional medicine and has made
fruitful efforts to promote its development. Currently
the spectrum of diseases is changing and an increasing
number of diseases are difficult to cure. The side
effects of chemical drugs have become more and more
evident. Furthermore, both the governments an peoples in
all countries are faced with the problem of high cost of
medical treatment. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM),
the complete system of traditional medicine in the world
with unique theory and excellent clinical curative
effects, basically meets the need to solve such
problems.
 Therefore,
bringing TCM into full play in medical treatment and
healthcare will certainly become one of the hot points
in the world medical business in the 21st
century.
Various aspects of
work need to be done to promote the course of the
internationalization of TCM, especially the compilation
of works and textbooks suitable for international
readers. The impending new century has witnessed the
compilation of
such a series of books known as A Newly
Compiled Practical English-Chinese Library of
Traditional Chinese Medicine published by the
Publishing House of Shanghai University of TCM. Compiled
by Nanjing University of TCM and translated by Shanghai
University of TCM. Professor Zuo Yanfu, the general
compiler-in-chief of this Library, is a person who sets
his mind on the international dissemination of TCM. He
has compiled General Survey on TCM abroad, a
monograph on the development and state of TCM abroad.
This Library is another important works written by the
experts organized by him with the support of Nanjing
University of TCM and Shanghai University of TCM. The
compilation of this Library is doe with consummate
ingenuity and according to the development of TCM
abroad. The compilers, based on the premise of
preserving the genuineness and gist of TCM, have tried
to make the contents concise, practical and easy to
understand making great efforts to introduce the
abstruse ideas of TCM in a scientific and simple way as
well as expounding the prevention and treatment of
diseases which are commonly encountered abroad and can
be effectively treated by TCM.
This Library
encompasses a systematic summarization of the teaching
experience accumulated in Nanjing University of TCM and
Shanghai University of TCM that run the collaborating
centers of traditional medicine and the international
training centers on acupuncture and moxibustion set by
WHO. I am sure that the publication of this Library will
further promote the development of traditional Chinese
medicine abroad and enable the whole world to have a
better understanding of traditional Chinese medicine..
Professor Zhu
Qingsheng
Vice-Minister of
health Ministry of the People¡¯s Republic of China
Director of the
State Administrative Bureau of TCM
December 14, 2000
Beijing
Foreword
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Before the
existence of the modern medicine, human beings depended
solely on herbal medicines and other therapeutic methods
to treat diseases and preserve health. Such a practice
gave rise to the establishment of various kinds of
traditional medicine with unique theory and practice,
such as traditional Chinese medicine, Indian medicine
and Arabian medicine, etc. Among these traditional
systems of medicine, traditional Chinese medicine is a
most extraordinary one based on which traditional Korean
medicine and Japanese medicine have
evolved.
Even in the 21st
century, traditional medicine is still of great
vitality. In spite of the fast development of modern
medicine, traditional medicine is still disseminated far
and wide. In many developing countries, most of the
people in the rural areas still depend on traditional
medicine and traditional medical practitioners to meet
the need for primary healthcare. Eve4n in the countries
with advanced modern medicine, more and more people have
begun to accept traditional medicine and other
therapeutic methods, such as homeopathy, osteopathy and
naturopathy, etc.
With the change of
the economy, culture and living style in various regions
as well as the aging in the world population, the
disease spectrum has changed. And such a change has
paved the way for the new application of traditional
medicine. Besides, the new requirements initiated by the
new diseases and the achievements and limitations of
modern medicine have also created challenges for
traditional medicine.
WHO sensed the
importance of traditional medicine to human health early
in the 1970s and have made great efforts to develop
traditional medicine. At the 29th
world health congress held in 1976, the item of
traditional medicine was adopted in the working plan of
WHO. In the following world health congresses, a series
of resolutions were passed to demand the member
countries to develop, utilize and study traditional
medicine according to their specific conditions so as to
reduce medical expenses for the realization of ¡＜health
for all¡＼.
WHO has laid great
stress on the scientific content, safe and effective
application of traditional medicine. It has published
and distributed a series of booklets on the scientific,
safe an effective use of herbs and acupuncture and
moxibustion. It has also made great contributions to the
international standardization of traditional medical
terms. The safe and effective application of traditional
medicine has much to do with the skills of traditional
medicine practitioners. That is why WHO has made great
efforts to train them. Who has run 27 collaborating
centers in the world which have made great contributions
to the training of acupuncturists and traditional
medical practitioners. Nanjing University of TCM and
Shanghai University of TCM run the collaborating centers
with WHO. In recent years it has, with the cooperation
of WHO and other countries, trained about ten thousand
international students from over 90 countries.
In order to
further promote the dissemination of traditional Chinese
medicine in the world. A Newly Compiled Practical
English-Chinese Library of Traditional Chinese Medicine
compiled by Nanjing University of TCM with Professor Zuo
Yanfu as the general compiler-in-chief and published by
the publishing House of Shanghai University of TCM, aims
at systematic, accurate an concise expounding of
traditional Chinese medical theory and introducing
clinical therapeutic methods of traditional medicine
according to modern medical nomenclature of diseases.
Undoubtedly, this series of books will be the practical
textbooks for the beginners with certain English level
an the international enthusiasts with certain level of
Chinese to study traditional Chinese medicine. Besides,
this series of books can also serve as reference books
for WHO to internationally standardize the nomenclature
of acupuncture and moxibustion.
The scientific,
safe an effective use of traditional medicaine will
certainly further promote the development of traditional
medicine and traditional medicine will undoubtedly make
mor and more contributions to human health in the 21st
century.
Zhang Xiaorui
WHO Coordination
Officer
December,2000
Contents
1.1 The Relationship between the Eyes and the
Viscera
1.2 Diagnostic Essentials
1.2.1 Diagnostic Methods in ophthalmology
1.2.2 Common Syndrome-differentiating Methods in
Ophthalmology
1.3 Introduction to the Treatment
1.3.3 Common Oral Drugs in Ophthalmology
2 Discussion of Specific Diseases
2.2.2 Acute Dacryocystitis
2.3 Disorders of Bulbar Conjunctiva
2.3.1 Acute Catarrhal Conjunctivitis
2.3.2 Epidemic Keratoconjunctivitis
2.3.3 Spring Conjunctivitis
2.3.4 Phlyctenular Conjunctivitis
2.4.1 Bacterial Corneal Ulcer
2.4.2 Herpes Simplex Keratitis
2.5.2 Acute Angle-closure Glaucoma
2.5.3 Primary Open-angle Glaucoma
2.5.5 Obstruction of Retinal Artery
2.5.6 Retinal Vein Obstruction
2.5.7 Central Serous Chorioretinopathy
2.5.8 Pigmentary Degeneration of Retina
2.5.9 Senile Macular Degeneration
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