
Essential Texts in Chinese Medicine
The Single Idea in the Mind of the Yellow Emperor
- 320 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Essential Texts in Chinese Medicine
The Single Idea in the Mind of the Yellow Emperor
About this book
In this selection of core texts, Richard Bertschinger presents a commentary and translation of the key writings for students and practitioners of Chinese medicine in the 21st century from the ancient, definitive set of books on Chinese medicine, the Huangdi Neijing or 'the Yellow Emperor's Medical Classic'.
Bertschinger selects the key sections of the long and often impenetrable Huangdi Neijing that are vital for students and practitioners to know and understand for practice today, and provides an accessible view of these fundamental writings which remain central to all traditional approaches to medicine in China. Taking eminent Ming doctor and scholar Li Zhongzi's selection of texts as a basis, he also includes a number of additional texts from the Huangdi Neijing on topics such as the spirit in treatment, a resonance with nature, the art of needling, and the Five Elemental body and personality types, thus ensuring the relevance of this core set of information for students and practitioners of acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine today.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- By The Same Author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Poetry
- Contents
- Foreword by Allen Parrott
- A Note on the Text
- Introduction
- I The Arts and Ways of a Good Life
- II Yin and Yang
- III Examining the Colour
- IV The Quiet Pulse
- V The Zangfu and Wuxing
- VI Channels and Collaterals
- VII Patterns of Treatment
- VIII The Method of Needling
- IX Pathology
- Appendix A: Clinical Cosmology
- Appendix B: Xue Shengbai’s Discovery of Li Zhongzi’s Work
- Select Bibliography and Sources
- Notes