From Legend to Science: A History of Chinese Medicine

In From Legend to Science Ruan Jin Zhao tells how as a young student he had asked himself How can these simple leaves and twigs cure a disease? Thus began the authors exploration of Chinese medicine the development of which he traces in depth. A marvel of the ancient world it was holistic in its inception ever mindful of mans position between heaven and earth. Never severed from its philosophical base as was Western medicine the Chinese traditional medicine emphasized balance and harmony within the human body treating the body as an organic whole with the over-arching Yin/Yang principle.