Treating AIDS With Chinese Medicine (Health)
Early in the AIDS epidemic, practitioners of Chinese medicine realized that their ancient healing art (based on enhancing the body's own functioning and ability to overcome illness) might offer unique resources in fighting this diseases. Treating AIDS with Chinese Medicine is a comprehensive handbook directed toward the practitioner and/or patient who needs to understand not only how to treat persons with AIDS but how to work with the resources of Western medicine. Treating AIDS with Chinese Medicine is also addressed to Western-trained doctors and healthcare works, as well as persons with  HIV wishing to learn what Chinese medicine can and cannot do. The authors present herbal and acupuncture strategies found to be the most useful in maintaining well-being and minimizing the impact of opportunistic infections. Special sections focus on the treatment needs of women, drug-addicted persons, and persons with hemophilia. While intended principally for health practitioners, this is a manual that can and should be read by anyone interested in treatment alternatives for AIDS.  --Midwest Book Review