Huang Di Nei Jing Su Wen: An Annotated Translation of Huang Di’s Inner Classic – Basic Questions: 2 Volumes

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University of California Press, May 18, 2011 - History - 1560 pages
A foundation of Chinese life sciences and medicine, the Huang Di Nei Jing Su Wen is now available for the first time in a complete, fully annotated English translation. Also known as Su Wen, or The Yellow Emperor’s Inner Classic, this influential work came into being over a long period reaching from the 2nd century bce to the 8th century ce. Combining the views of different schools, it relies exclusively on natural law as conceptualized in yin/yang and Five Agents doctrines to define health and disease, and repeatedly emphasizes personal responsibility for the length and quality of one’s life. This two-volume edition includes excerpts from all the major commentaries on the Su Wen, and extensive annotation drawn from hundreds of monographs and articles by Chinese and Japanese authors produced over the past 1600 years and into the twentieth century.





 

Contents

Prolegomena
9
Textual Structures in the Su wen Translation
22
Discourse on the True Qi Endowed by Heaven in High
29
Chapter
42
Comprehensive Discourse on Regulating the Spirit
45
Discourse on how the Generative Qi Communicates with
59
Discourse on the True Words in the Golden Chest
83
Comprehensive Discourse on Phenomena Corresponding
95
Jade Tablet Discourse on the Essentials
247
Discourse On The Essentials of Diagnosis and On Exhaustion
257
Discourse on the Essentials of Vessels and the Subtleties of
273
normal Person
301
Depots
323
the seasons
383
appearance
419
spirit Brilliance
433

Discourse on the Division and Unity of yin and yang
127
Further Discourse on Yin and Yang
137
Discourse on the Hidden Canons in the Numinous Orchid
155
Discourse on the Six Terms of a Year and on Phenomena
163
The Generation and Completion of the Five Depots
185
Further Discourse on the Five Depots
203
Discourse on Different Therapeutic Patterns Suitable for
211
Discourse on Moving the Essence and Changing
219
Discourse on Decoctions and Wines
233
Qi
447
Conduits
479
regular Course
527
Discourse on the restrictions of Piercing
737
Bibliography
753
neijing su wen 黃帝內經素問 published by ren min wei sheng
6
Essence 273
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Paul U. Unschuldis Professor and Director of the Horst-Goertz Endowment Institute for the Theory, History, and Ethics of Chinese Life Sciences at Chariteacute;-Medical University Berlin. His previous books includeMedicine in China: A History of Ideas(Twenty-fifth anniversary edition). Until his retirement in 2010,Hermann Tessenowwas a Senior Lecturer at the Institute for the History of Medicine at Munich University.

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