1. The philosophical foundations of Five Element Constitutional Acupuncture Chapter contents Introduction2 Naturalism and Daoism2 Nature as inspiration3 Humans stand between Heaven and Earth3 The Three Treasures4 Introduction The foundations…
7. Introduction to the Five Elements Chapter contents Introduction44 The first chapter – the Element and the resonances44 The second chapter – the functions of the Organs48 The third chapter…
5. The causes of disease Chapter contents History of the causes of disease26 The causes of disease26 The internal causes of disease26 The seven internal causes of disease29 The five…
6. The inner development of the practitioner Chapter contents Introduction35 Why is inner development important?36 Maximising rapport and increasing the efficacy of treatment37 Cultivating virtuosity (linghuo)41 Introduction Throughout the history…
4. The Constitutional Factor Chapter contents The concept of the constitutional imbalance in Chinese medicine18 What do we mean by the Constitutional Factor?18 How does a practitioner diagnose the CF?19…
3. The importance of the spirit Chapter contents The primacy of the spirit13 The meaning of mind and spirit14 Chinese medicine’s approach to the spirit and health15 The five shen15…
where X i represents here the DAS28 value for the ith patient and n = 159 is the size of the RAPPORT study. The symbol signifies that the sum is taken of…
Pragmatic limitations of clinical trials 1 A relatively short time frame in chronic diseases – sometimes too short to identify important clinical benefits or to recognize loss of efficacy 2…
Parameters that are commonly extracted from studies Characteristics of the manuscript Author Publication year Study duration Study design Factors related to risk of bias Participant characteristics Number Age Sex Diagnosis/criteria…
, with is the α/2 quantile of a t-distribution with 2n − 2 degrees of freedom. These steps illustrate a few important things for computing the sample size: Clinicians must have a…
