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Terminology of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Terminology of Traditional Chinese Medicine Author:Dashun Chen, Youshun He This dictionary has been reprinted several times since the first edition was published in the 1980s, and yet the demand for it outstrips supply, which indicates that it is well accepted by readers at home and abroad. It helps meet the requirement of TCM to march to the world. — With the fear of the side effect of chemical medicine on human body, ... more »natual medicine, especially plant medicine, has enjoyed growing favor amongpeople. It is estimated that about 4 billion patients in the world take plant medicine, which contributes unprecedented favorable circumstances to TCM. What TCM first encounters in the international exchange is linguistic obstacle. Thus, on the basis of the preservation of the feature of TCM, accurate, concise and understandable Chinese-English translation of TCM terms is what both TCM specialists and translators strive to achieve together. This is the first English-Chinese dictionary of TCM we edited, so the deficiencies of it are hardly avoidable. We intended to make full-scale revision of the dictionary, but it is hard for us at present because of the death of Prof. Shuai Xuezhong, the translator. Many changes in the second-edition is not carried out, too, for the regulation of the English-translation of TCM terms has to go through a long-term contention. All readers, whatever at home or abroad, are welcome to give advice on it.« less