Medicine in China

Nan-Ching

The original text of the Nan-ching was compiled during the first century AD by an unknown author. From that time forward, this ancient text provoked an ongoing stream of commentaries. As the classic of the medicine of systematic correspondence, the Nan-ching covers all aspects of theoretical and practical health care within the doctrines of the Five Phases and Yinyang in an unusually systematic fashion. Most important is its innovative discussion of pulse diagnosis and needle treatment.
Unschuld combines the translation of the text with selected commentaries by twenty Chinese and Japanese authors from the past seventeen centuries. These commentaries provide insights into the processes of reception and transmission of ancient Chinese concepts from the Han ear to the present time, and shed light on the issue of progress in Chinese medicine.

Contents

Prolegomena
Text, Translation, Commentaries, and Notes

Chapter One
The Movement in the Vessels and Its Diagnostic Significance
Chapter Two
The Conduits and the Network-Vessels
Chapter Three
The Depots and the Palaces
Chapter Four
On Illnesses
Chapter Five
Transportation Holes
Chapter Six
Needling Patterns

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