1 option
The great intent : acupuncture odes, songs, and rhymes / Richard Bertschinger.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bertschinger, Richard, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Acupuncture.
- Acupuncture Therapy--history.
- China.
- History, 17th Century.
- Medicine, Chinese Traditional--history.
- Poetry as Topic--history.
- Medical Subjects:
- Acupuncture Therapy--history.
- China.
- History, 17th Century.
- Medicine, Chinese Traditional--history.
- Poetry as Topic--history.
- Physical Description:
- 320 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Singing Dragon, 2013.
- Summary:
- Songs and rhymes have been used by physicians for centuries in China as a means of memorising and passing on methods of practice, moral attitudes, effective points and rules of thumb. This translation of important acupuncture songs and rhymes from The Great Compendium of Acupuncture and Moxibustion offers a rich insight into the life and thought of these skilled doctors. Contemporary acupuncturists can see from these poems the depths of the tradition, broaden their diagnostic skills and treatment planning, and thus greatly improve the idea of intent within their own practice. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- The odes, songs and rhymes
- Ode to the whole body's points and channels
- Ode to the one hundred symptoms
- A song on the rule of the hundred points
- A song on how the six qi create disease
- The song 'four all-encompassing points'
- The song 'nine needles which revive the yang'
- Ode to the streamer out of the dark
- Ode to the magnanimity of the mat
- Ode to the golden needle
- A song on how the cycling five of heaven control disease
- A rhyming guide to essential indications when needling
- Ode to the jade dragon
- Old teacher mulberry's rhyme 'secrets of the stars'
- Ma danyang's song on the twelve points
- Shining bright as the starry sky and able to heal all the many diseases
- Ode to the importance of penetrating the dark mystery
- Ode to the magic brightness
- Ode to holding back the river
- Ode to intricacies in the circulating flow
- The song 'tricks to keep up your sleeve'
- The secret rhyme on needling 'barriers within'
- Tonifying and reduction swept clear as snow
- The song 'general pointers when needling'
- The song 'opening the door to needling law'.
- Notes:
- Preceded by (work): The golden needle : and other odes of traditional acupuncture : book two of Yang Jizhou's grand compendium (1601) / translated by Richard Bertschinger. 1991.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Contains:
- Yang, Jizhou, active 1573-1619. Zhen jiu da cheng. Juan 2. English.
- ISBN:
- 9780857011114
- 0857011111
- 9781848191327
- 1848191324
- OCLC:
- 825749842
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.