Withdrawal & Mania: The Yin & Yang of Psychiatric Disease in Chinese Medicine.

From: Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients | Date: April 1, 2001| Author: Flaws, Bob | Copyright information

Until this century and the adoption of Western medical divisions, [1] there was no specifically psychiatric specialty within professional Chinese medicine. Rather, psychiatric disorders were simply lumped in with the so-called miscellaneous diseases (za bing) of traditional Chinese internal medicine (nei ke) along with such somatic complaints as impediment, wilting, wasting and thirsting, headache, and abdominal pain. To make matters worse, many premodern clinical manuals of Chinese...

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