This book looks at the roots of the Chinese language and the processes of Chinese thought that created the healing arts, emphasising the critical importance of examining and relying upon the ancient Chinese texts that are the basis for any study of traditional acupuncture.
Table of Content
Part One The Placing of Medicine in Chinese Thought
Chapter 1 General Introduction
Chapter 2 The Structure of Traditional Acupuncture
Chapter 3 History
Chapter 4 On the Chinese Language
Chapter 5 Tao, Yin/Yang
Chapter 6 Tao
Chapter 7 Yin/Yang
Chapter 8 The Breaths
Chapter 9 Heaven-Earth-Man
Chapter 10 Early Heaven and Later Heaven
Chapter 11 The Four Seasons
Chapter 12 Inside/Outside(nei/wai); Face/Interface(biao/li)
Chapter 13 The Hard and the Soft
Chapter 14 Cold and Heat
Chapter 15 The Empty and the Full
Chapter 16 Having and Not Having
Part Two Perspectives of Traditional Chinese Physiology
Chapter 1 Acupuncture in Chinese Medicine
Chapter 2 The Body
Chapter 3 The Differentiated Energies
Chapter 4 Energetic Organization of the Body
Chapter 5 The Zang and the Fu
