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Abstract
The book is well designed in the familiar Churchill Livingstone format and divided into parts making it very clear, concise and easy to read as a reference for busy students and practitioners: part 1 includes a discussion of pain from a Traditional and historical Chinese Medicine perspective, and also includes various modern medical research theories on pain; part 2 covers pain in the entire body, unilateral pain and pain due to cancer with aetiology, pathology and treatment based on pattern differentiation; part 3 covers sense organ pain including lip, tooth and tongue pain; part 4 covers head and neck pain, including throat pain and painful swallowing; part 5 covers pain in the front of the trunk which includes chest, breast, axillary, epigastric, hypochondriac and abdominal pain as well as dysmenorrhoea; part 6 covers back pain ranging from the entire back to regions of the back including the coccyx; part 7 covers upper limb pain, from shoulders to fingers; part 8 covers lower limb pain from hip to sole and heels; part 9 covers genital pain and includes pain experienced during ejaculation, copulation and pain experienced during defecation.