Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine

A new translation of the NEIJING SUWEN with commentary

The Su Wen is attributed to Huang Di, the Yellow Emperor, who reigned during the third millennium BC in China. The 81 chapters of the text were written in the form a discourse between the Emperor and his ministers, ranging over material including etiology, psychology, diagnosis, therapy, and disease prevention, as well as ethics, psychology, and cosmology, unified by the theme of natural laws of an holistic universe.

The original text, presenting broad concepts in a remarkably terse fashion, has been elucidated and interpreted by the translator to make this a readable narrative for those curious about the principles underlying Chinese Medicine.

The translation is based on Chinese textbook "The Medical Classic of the Yellow Emperor" edited by the Compiling and Checking Committee of Textbooks of State Universities and Colleges organized by the Ministry of Public Health of the People's Republic of China 1982. The structure of this book is to present the translations of an aoriginal article, or a section of dialogue, from The Medical Classi... Read More...