New exploration and understanding of traditional Chinese medicine

American Journal of Chinese Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 411-426

  Xutian, Stevenson ^a   Zhang, Jun ^b   Louise, Wozniak ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Conventional Western Medicine (CWM); Qian Xuesen; TCM Modernization; TCM Theory; Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN; OXYGEN; WATER;

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FLUID; BODY WATER; BRAIN; CHINA; CHINESE MEDICINE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONVENTIONAL WESTERN MEDICINE; ENERGY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FIVE PHASE THEORY; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HEART; HERBAL MEDICINE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NATURAL SCIENCE; OXYGEN BLOOD LEVEL; PHILOSOPHY OF MEDICINE; PULSE RATE; SYSTEMS THEORY; THEORY; THINKING; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; VISCERA; YIN YANG THEORY;

HUMANS; MEDICINE, CHINESE TRADITIONAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; QI; WESTERN WORLD;

EID: 68149171590     PISSN: 0192415X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0192415X09006941     Document Type: Article

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