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conversations.value: Give me a description for a book titled Diagnosis in Traditional Chinese Medicine about Chinese, China, Diagnosis with the genre: Medical Books, Medicine.
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conversations.value: Diagnosis in Traditional Chinese Medicine is an original text based on Dr. the author's years of experience as a clinician and as a university professor teaching diagnosis courses in China. Trained in China as an M.D. and as a doctor of Chinese medicine, she taught Chinese-speaking biomedical and traditional physicians as well as English-speaking interns. Upon her arrival in the U.S. to teach students of Chinese medicine, she became concerned for her Western students' particular difficulty in applying pattern identification in practice. She concluded that the probable cause of this difficulty was in part because available English language texts lack the depth of Chinese teaching and in part because lecture-like presentations of diagnostic skills do not make it easy to grasp clear distinctions. In composing this work, Dr. the author arranges a great deal of information so that the logical relationships become easy to see, easy to read, and easy to understand. She succinctly explains each of the symptoms, signs, techniques and patterns with special emphasis on practical clinical observations, followed by a graphical display of the clinical details for each.
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conversations.value: Give me the first three paragraphs for this book.
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conversations.value: Diagnosis in Traditional Chinese Medicine
  During different historical periods in the development of traditional Chinese medicine, many well-known physicians made great contributions to diagnostics. Their names, the era during which they lived, leading works, and their significance in the development of TCM diagnostics are shown in Table 1.1.
  In TCM theory, a disease is a specific process of life. It refers to the result of the interaction of pathogenic factors (known as evil qi) and body resistance (known as vital qi) finally causing the **breakdown** of the balance **between yin and yang**.
  The action of pathogenic factors on the body is a result of both organic and functional **impairment**. The body may react to these pathogenic factors in two ways. One is to call up vital qi to **expel** invading pathogens; the other is to call up vital qi to **restore** the impaired functions. Furthermore, as specific life processes, breakdown/impairment and expelling/restoration are always dynamic. Their progression is determined by the dynamic interaction between pathogenic factors and bodily resistance.
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conversations.value: Give me two more paragraphs.
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conversations.value: Normally vomiting may occur during pregnancy, but generally disappears within three months. If vomiting lasts more than three months, possibly becoming more severe, treatment is necessary (see Table 4.67).
  Vomiting with lassitude and listlessness, loss of taste, and distension of the abdomen, loose stools, weak rolling pulse | Insufficiency of spleen qi leading to poor promotion of stomach qi | Spleen qi deficiency
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conversations.value: Give me the last five paragraphs.
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conversations.value: Upper burner-lower burner pattern in combination | Exterior heat coexisting simultaneously with kidney yin deficiency
  Middle burner-lower burner pattern in combination | Interior heat in the stomach and large intestine combined with liver and kidney yin deficiency
  Lower burner pattern at the beginning of a warm disease | Liver yin and kidney yin deficiency are present at the beginning of a warm disease.
  Upper burner, middle burner, and lower burner patterns in combination | Warm pathogens spread over the three burners
  The fourteen case studies discussed here allow the reader to review pattern diagnosis by applying the different methods of pattern identification introduced above.