The final chapter summarises the current state of evidence and offers suggestions for contemporary clinical practice and future research.This book is a handy desktop reference for both clinicians and students of Chinese and integrative medicine. The potential mechanisms of action for some of the key herbs are summarised, based on analysis of experimental studies. Systematic reviews, using internationally accepted scientific methods, describe the treatments tested in clinical studies and the effects of Chinese herbal medicine, acupuncture and related therapies, and combinations of these therapies for urinary tract infection. Attention is then turned to the evidence from clinical studies. The conceptualisation of urinary tract infection in both contemporary and classical Chinese medicine literature is reviewed and analysed. The first chapter provides an overview of the clinical presentation, diagnosis and treatment with conventional medicine. 22 in the Evidence-based Clinical Chinese Medicine series, uses a 'whole evidence' approach to summarise management of urinary tract infection with Chinese medicine. Urinary tract infection is a common clinical condition with a significant health burden. Ultimately, this study represents trailblazing research on the relationship between language, culture and cognition.ĬLICK HERE TO GET BOOK Book Evidence-based Clinical Chinese Medicine - Volume 22: Urinary Tract Infection Description/Summary: This volume contributes to the fields of cognitive linguistics, semantics, music, musicology and Chinese studies, offering readers a fresh account of Chinese ways of thinking, not least Chinese ways of viewing or appreciating music. Readers will be able to better understand not only these musical concepts but also significant aspects of the Chinese culture which many of these musical concepts represent. The current study is the first known attempt at analysing these Chinese musical concepts linguistically, adopting the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) approach to formulate semantically and cognitively rigorous explications.

Important as these musical concepts are in the language, they have been in wide circulation since ancient times without being subjected to any serious semantic analysis. words that describe, or refer to, aspects of Chinese music.

This book surveys a representative selection of musical concepts in Chinese language, i.e. It is, therefore, natural that we have wanted to describe, document, analyse and, somehow, grasp it in language. Music is a widely enjoyed human experience. Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing CompanyĬLICK HERE TO GET BOOK Book The Semantics of Chinese Music Description/Summary:

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