Huang Di Nei Jing Ling Shu: The Ancient Classic on Needle TherapyTheÊLing Shu, also known as theÊLing Shu Jing, is part of a unique and seminal trilogy of ancient Chinese medicine, together with theÊSu WenÊandÊNan Jing.ÊIt constitutes the foundation of a two-thousand-year healing tradition that remains active to this day. Its therapeutic approach is based on a purely secular science of nature, with natural laws serving as guidelines for human behavior and medical treatment. No other text offers such broad insights into the thinking and manifest action of the authors of the time. Following an introduction, this volume contains the full original Chinese text of theÊLing Shu, an English translation of all eighty-one chapters, and notes on difficult-to-grasp passages and possible changes in the text over time on the basis of Chinese primary and secondary literature of the past two thousand years and translator Paul UnschuldÕs own work. TheÊLing ShuÊreveals itself as a completely rational work, and, in many of its statements, a surprisingly modern one. It will provide the foundation for comparisons with the nearly contemporaneousÊCorpus HippocraticumÊof ancient Europe and todayÕs iterations of traditional Chinese Medicine as well. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
Chapter | 4 |
The Holism of Politics and Medicine II | 11 |
Diagnosis | 19 |
Chapter | 21 |
Chapter | 26 |
Chapter | 27 |
About the Translation | 28 |
Chapter 39 | 401 |
Chapter 43 | 421 |
Chapter 45 | 433 |
Chapter 47 | 447 |
Chapter 48 | 465 |
Chapter 49 | 475 |
Chapter 50 | 489 |
Chapter 51 | 497 |
ANNOTATED TRANSLATION OF LING SHU 1 THROUGH 81 | 35 |
To Consider the Transportation Openings as the Foundation | 53 |
Chapter 3 | 67 |
Explanatory Remarks on the Small Needles | 75 |
Chapter | 77 |
Chapter 9 | 155 |
Chapter 10 | 175 |
Chapter II | 209 |
Chapter 12 | 215 |
Chapter 13 | 225 |
Chapter 14 | 231 |
Chapter 15 | 245 |
Chapter 17 | 253 |
Chapter 18 | 259 |
Chapter 19 | 269 |
Chapter 20 | 275 |
Oral Inquiry | 327 |
Chapter 29 | 341 |
Chapter 30 | 351 |
Chapter 32 | 357 |
Chapter 34 | 367 |
Chapter 35 | 373 |
Chapater 36 | 383 |
Chapter 38 | 393 |
衛氣 The Guard Qi | 509 |
Chapter 55 | 519 |
Chapter 57 | 529 |
When the Guard Qi Lose their Regularity537 | 537 |
The JadeTablets | 547 |
Chapter 61 | 559 |
Chapter 62 | 565 |
Chapter 63 | 571 |
Chapter 64 | 577 |
Chapter 65 | 595 |
Chapter 66 | 603 |
Chapter 67 | 613 |
Chapter 69 | 623 |
Chapter 71 | 631 |
Chapter 72 | 647 |
Chapter 73 | 655 |
Chapter 74 | 669 |
Chapter 75 | 677 |
Chapter 78 | 719 |
Chapter 79 | 739 |
Chapter 80 | 753 |
Chapter 81 | 763 |
GLOSSARY | 777 |
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Common terms and phrases
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