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    Advanced Hematology in Integrated Cardiovascular Chinese Medicine: Volume 3
    Advanced Hematology in Integrated Cardiovascular Chinese Medicine: Volume 3
    Advanced Hematology in Integrated Cardiovascular Chinese Medicine: Volume 3
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    Advanced Hematology in Integrated Cardiovascular Chinese Medicine: Volume 3

    By Anika Niambi Al-Shura

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    Advanced Hematology in Integrative Cardiovascular Chinese Medicine, volume three in the Integrative Cardiovascular Chinese Medicine series, systematically observes and discusses laboratory tests which detect heart diseases and analyzes the results. It includes coverage of red and white blood cell homeostasis and advanced anatomy and physiology of the vascular system, including the biomedicine perspectives of blood and lymphatic system, and TCM perspectives of essence, qi, blood and body fluid. In addition, the book examines the immune system from the perspective of Traditional Chinese Medicine, including pestilential differentiation. Case studies, lab charts and laboratory differentials according to Chinese and Western medicine perspectives are also included.

    Finally, the book discusses the use of lab results for assisting and/or confirming diagnoses of blood and cardiovascular disorders in both Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western medicine. This important reference will aid cardiovascular researchers in the study of integrative Chinese and Western medicine with its clear, structured base to guide clinical practice and encourage collaboration.

    • Compares medical theories in Chinese medicine and Western medicine on blood, immune system and cardiovascular diseases
    • Provides laboratory cases, tests and values concerning pathology of the blood and the cardiovascular system necessary for diagnosing and monitoring within integrative cardiovascular Chinese medicine
    • Includes coverage of advanced level blood, complement and immune systems from both Western and Chinese medicine perspectives
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAcademic Press
    Release dateOct 20, 2019
    ISBN9780128175736
    Advanced Hematology in Integrated Cardiovascular Chinese Medicine: Volume 3
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    Anika Niambi Al-Shura

    Dr. Anika Niambi Al-Shura is originally from Louisville, Ky, USA. She has one son, one grandson and resides in Kentucky and Florida, USA. She enjoys cultivating medicinal plants and formulating medicinal herb recipes, soap making, fine art, travelling internationally to meet people for learning new cultures and ways of living, mountain hiking and relaxing on the beach near the ocean. Dr. Al-Shura has 14 continuous years of formal education involving Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) clinical practice, advanced medical study, research and education between the United States, Italy and China. In 2004, her master’s degree in Oriental Medicine was earned from East West College of Natural Medicine in Florida, USA. In mainland China between 2004 and 2014, she earned hospital study, advanced scholar and specialty certificates in Chinese medicine, internal medicine and surgery and cardiology from several university affiliated hospitals. Those hospitals include Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shandong Provincial Hospital and Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Her subspecialty training in TCM is in interventional cardiology involving the catherization lab. Dr. Al-Shura earned her PhD in medical education in 2014 through the University Ambrosiana program. Her dissertation on Integrative Cardiovascular Chinese Medicine (ICCM) became her first textbook entitled, “Integrative Cardiovascular Chinese Medicine: A Personalized Medicine Perspective”. This book was one of 7 textbooks written to introduce the concepts of ICCM. All were published and released together through Elsevier Academic Press in 2014. Those textbooks are utilized for the level 1 program studies in ICCM with continuing medical education (CME) courses. Eight additional textbooks were written on the establishment and development of intermediate ICCM theories and practices. Those textbooks are utilized for the level 2 program CME studies in ICCM. Those 8 textbooks are part of the Integrative Cardiovascular Chinese Medicine series and were published and released together through Elsevier Academic Press in 2019. Dr. Al-Shura is currently a faculty member at Everglades University in Florida, where she teaches medical and healthcare course in the Bachelors of Alternative Medicine program. She also has Niambi Wellness Institute, based in Florida and Kentucky, where Integrative Cardiovascular Chinese Medicine research and work continues. It includes a natural pharmacy lab and a continuing medical education (CME) program. The natural pharmacy researches, formulates, manufactures and distributes various patented and original formulations using TCM herbs. The CME program includes TCM cardiology courses which grant credits towards NCCAOM, state medical board and state TCM board license renewals in the United States.

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      Advanced Hematology in Integrated Cardiovascular Chinese Medicine - Anika Niambi Al-Shura

      Advanced Hematology in Integrated Cardiovascular Chinese Medicine

      Volume 3

      Anika Niambi Al-Shura, BSc, MSOM, PhD

      Niambi Wellness Institute, Integrative Cardiovascular Chinese Medicine, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA

      Table of Contents

      Cover image

      Title page

      Copyright

      Dedication

      Dedication

      Preface

      Dr. Al-Shura biography

      Section I. Anatomy & physiology

      1. Anatomy of blood and lymph

      Anatomy and composition of blood

      Genetics

      Platelets

      Coagulation

      Lymphatic system

      2. Jing as essence

      Pre-heaven essence

      Kidney yin and essence, yang, and qi

      Post-heaven essence

      3. Qi and blood

      Qi

      Blood

      Section II. Blood and immunity

      4. Cellular homeostasis

      Energy sustenance

      Transport and gas exchange in homeostasis

      Microvesicles in homeostasis

      5. Hemoglobin

      Introduction

      Blood is the mother of qi

      The kidney zang involvement

      The end of the hemoglobin cycle

      Section III. Perspectives on the immune system

      6. Leukocytes

      Mononuclear phagocyte system

      Zang/fu organs of Wei qi in traditional Chinese medicine

      7. Lymphocytes

      Function of the spleen zang from the Chinese medicine perspectives of ascending qi and controlling blood

      Lymphocyte structure and function

      The spleen

      Lymphocytes and heart failure

      8. Pestilential differentiation

      Infectious diseases that affect the cardiovascular system

      List of bacteria, fungi, and viruses that affect the cardiovascular system

      The four levels of pathogenic invasion according to Chinese medicine

      Clinical manifestations of infectious disease as dry heat and damp heat in traditional Chinese medicine

      The functions of Wei qi in guarding, attacking pathogens, and recovering after illness

      9. Six stages

      Cold- and warm-induced diseases

      The six stages

      10. The four levels

      Wen Bing, the warm diseases

      The theories of the four levels

      Section IV. Hematology lab

      11. Differentials

      Survey of the heart and cardiovascular system

      Routine clinical evaluation

      Genetic tests and biomarkers

      Hematology tests for various cardiovascular disorders with rationale and use in follow-up and management

      12. Factors in blood production and coagulation

      Factors in blood production

      Coagulation cascade

      Fibrinolytic system

      Disorders

      13. Cardiac tests

      Heart disease

      Emergency cardiac biomarkers

      General Lab tests

      Other laboratory tests

      Section V. Diagnosing

      14. Diagnosing using Western medicine methods

      Heart disease

      15. Diagnosing using Chinese medicine methods

      Xīn bìng/heart disease

      Constitutional characteristics that warn of or signal Xīn bìng

      Common disorders

      Cardiac tests

      Index

      Copyright

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      Notices

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      Practitioners and researchers must always rely on their own experience and knowledge in evaluating and using any information, methods, compounds, or experiments described herein. In using such information or methods they should be mindful of their own safety and the safety of others, including parties for whom they have a professional responsibility.

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      Dedication

      In Memory

      This textbook is dedicated in memory of my late parents. To Mary A Cummings (1954–2006) who passed away of heart failure and other related diseases, I am continuing to keep my promise of finding out what was wrong with you and what could have been done to prevent some of them. To my father Abdur-Rahman Qurban Al-Shura (1949–80), I followed what you advised me to do in life, and taught me to always find a way to make it happen.

      Dedication

      The writing of this textbook is dedicated to my son, Khaleel Shakeer Ryland, and his son, my grandson Khaleem Qurban Ryland. Your ancestors motivated me to find important solutions that may help some people in this world be relieved of suffering. May this legacy inspire and guide you to do the same in this life and to pass our ways on to future descendants.

      Preface

      The Development, Promotion, and Ongoing Research of Integrative Cardiovascular Chinese Medicine

      Integrative Cardiovascular Chinese Medicine (ICCM) is an area of medical study, research, and education with basic medical sciences, theories, and practices. It was created by Dr. Anika Niambi Al-Shura in 2014 as part of her doctorate degree. Cardiology in Chinese Medicine first became an interest during her early years of study in Chinese hospitals in China in 2004–06. At the time Dr. Al-Shura got a great opportunity to travel to China to work and study. It had dawned on her that before her father died in 1980, he predicted that she would study sciences and travel east to do something important. Dr. Al-Shura decided that she could search for ways to improve on her skills and master's degree in Oriental Medicine education to help her mother, Mary, suffering from advancing cardiovascular diseases. Before important revelations in medicine and health care became understood in her mission, Mary passed away in her early 50s in 2006.

      Dr. Al-Shura continued her study and went on to hospital research in China between 2006 and 2014. She was recycling what her father had predicted directly to her word for word, realizing it may have been bigger than finding ways to only help her mother. Realizing that her father's prediction seemed to be coming true, she used this period to learn and think about how she could have been able to care for Mary and possibly relieved or cured certain cardiovascular disorders had she survived. It became apparent that Mary's ignored genetic predispositions, lifestyle, and practitioner racial/cultural profiling assumptions about prescribing, maintaining, and prolonging pharmaceutical drug use, and without access to gold star therapies even though the means to afford such therapies were available, were contributors to her advancing condition. Consideration and empathy for these factors from her health-care team and a careful analysis of the condition early on, the method of combining herbal therapy, nutrition, and pharmaceutical drug therapy, had this method been available at the time, may have had a positive impact.

      Today, Dr. Al-Shura's work in developing her subject of ICCM is partially in memory of her mother who lived before the dawning of the integrative medicine era.

      Health-care practitioners, cardiovascular patients, and the public who study from the textbooks in the Integrative Cardiovascular

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