Chloasma & vitiligo.9787117092418 Chloasma chloasma /chlo·as·ma/ (klo-az´mah) melasma. chlo·as·ma n. pl. chlo·as·ma·ta & vitiligo vitiligo or leukoderma Skin disorder manifested by smooth, white spots on various parts of the body. Though the pigment-making cells of the skin, or melanocytes, are structurally intact, they have lost the ability to synthesize the pigment. . Guo-wei, Xuan and Fan Rui-qiang. Ed. by Lara Deasy. Trans. by Zhou Ling and Liu En-zhao. People's Medical Publishing House 2007 157 pages $29.95 Paperback The clinical practice of Chinese medicine RL790 These refractory conditions of pigmentation disorders have no ideal therapies available in Western biomedicine. However, traditional Chinese medicine Traditional Chinese Medicine Definition Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is an ancient and still very vital holistic system of health and healing, based on the notion of harmony and balance, and employing the ideas of moderation and prevention. has found both to be related to disharmonies in a variety of essential elements such as blood and qi. Chloasma, a common skin disease caused by excess melanin melanin (mĕl`ənĭn), water-insoluble polymer of various compounds derived from the amino acid tyrosine. It is one of two pigments found in human skin and hair and adds brown to skin color; the other pigment is carotene, which contributes , manifests in light born or black patches on the face. Vitiligo is an acquired local skin disease characterized by blanching of skin with an obvious boundary and no subjective symptoms. Here experienced practitioners of Chinese medicine will learn the etiology and pathomechanism for each disease, medical treatment (including acupuncture and moxibustion moxibustion /mox·i·bus·tion/ (mok?si-bus´chun) the stimulation of an acupoint by the burning of a cone or cylinder of moxa placed at or near the point. mox·i·bus·tion n. ), prognoses, advice from experts (including empirical formulas, case studies and discussions, perspectives of integrative medicine, observations from classical texts, and results of modern research. ([c]20082005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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