Huang di nei jing su wen : an annotated translation of Huang Di's Inner Classic -- Basic Questions / Paul U. Unschuld and Hermann Tessenow in collaboration with Zheng Jinsheng.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Unschuld, Paul U., Author.

Contributor:

Unschuld, Paul U. (Paul Ulrich), 1943-

Tessenow, Hermann, 1945-

Zheng, Jinsheng, 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Su wen.

Medicine, Chinese--Early works to 1800.

Medicine, Chinese.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1553 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Annotated translation of Huang Di's Inner Classic -- Basic Questions

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A foundation of Chinese life sciences and medicine, the Huang Di Nei Jing Su Wen is now available for the first time in a complete, fully annotated English translation. Also known as Su Wen, or The Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic, this influential work came into being over a long period reaching from the 2nd century bce to the 8th century ce. Combining the views of different schools, it relies exclusively on natural law as conceptualized in yin/yang and Five Agents doctrines to define health and disease, and repeatedly emphasizes personal responsibility for the length and quality of one's life. This two-volume edition includes excerpts from all the major commentaries on the Su Wen, and extensive annotation drawn from hundreds of monographs and articles by Chinese and Japanese authors produced over the past 1600 years and into the twentieth century.

Contents:

Huang Di Nei Jing Su Wen

Frontmatter

Acknowledgment

Contents Volume I

Prolegomena

Annotated Translation of Su wen 1 through 52

Chapter 1. Discourse on the True [Qi Endowed by] Heaven in High Antiquity

Chapter 2. Comprehensive Discourse on Regulating the Spirit [in Accordance with] the Qi of the Four [Seasons]

Chapter 3. Discourse on how the Generative Qi Communicates with Heaven

Chapter 4. Discourse on the True Words in the Golden Chest

Chapter 5. Comprehensive Discourse on Phenomena Corresponding to Yin and Yang

Chapter 6. Discourse on the Division and Unity of Yin and Yang

Chapter 7. Further Discourse on Yin and Yang

Chapter 8. Discourse on the Hidden Canons in the Numinous Orchid [Chambers]

Chapter 9. Discourse on the Six Terms [of a Year] and on Phenomena [Associated with the Condition] of the Depots

Chapter 10. The Generation and Completion of the Five Depots

Chapter 11. Further Discourse on the Five Depots

Chapter 12. d Discourse on Different [Therapeutic] Patterns Suitable [for Use in Different] Cardinal Points

Chapter 13. Discourse on Moving the Essence and Changing the Qi

Chapter 14. Discourse on Decoctions and Wines

Chapter 15. Jade Tablet Discourse on the Essentials

Chapter 16. Discourse on The Essentials of Diagnosis and on Exhaustion in the Conduits

Chapter 17. Discourse on the Essentials of Vessels and the Subtleties of the Essence

Chapter 18. Discourse on Phenomena [Reflecting the Status of] Qi in a Normal Person

Chapter 19. Discourse on the Jade Mechanism and the True [Qi of the] Depots

Chapter 20. Discourse on the Three Sections and Nine Indicators

Chapter 21. Further Discourse on the Conduit Vessels

Chapter 22. Discourse on How the Qi in the Depots Follow the Pattern of the Seasons

Chapter 23. Wide Promulgation of the Five Qi

Chapter 24 Blood and Qi, Physical Appearance and Mind

Chapter 25. Discourse on Treasuring Life and Preserving Physical Appearance

Chapter 26. Discourse on the Eight Cardinal [Turning Points] and on Spirit Brilliance

Chapter 27. Discourse on the Division and Union of True [Qi] and Evil [Qi]

Chapter 28. Discourse Thoroughly Deliberating upon Depletion and Repletion

Chapter 29. Discourse on the Major Yin and on the Yang Brilliance [Conduits]

Chapter 30. Explanation of the Yang Brilliance Vessel

Chapter 31. Discourse on Heat

Chapter 32. To Pierce Heat

Chapter 33. Discourse Deliberating upon Heat Disease

Chapter 34. Discourse on the Assessment of Movements Contrary [to their Regular Course]

Chapter 35. Discourse on Malaria

Chapter 36. To Pierce Malaria

Chapter 37. Discourse on Qi Recession

Chapter 38. Discourse on Cough

Chapter 39. Discourse on Pain

Chapter 40. Discourse on Abdomen and Center

Chapter 41. To Pierce Lower Back Pain

Chapter 42. Discourse on Wind

Chapter 43. Discourse on Blocks

Chapter 44. Discourse on Limpness

Chapter 45. Discourse on Recession

Chapter 46. Discourse on Disease Manifestations

Chapter 47. Discourse on Strange Diseases

Chapter 48. Discourse on Very Strange [Diseases]

Chapter 49. Explanations on the Vessels

Chapter 50. Discourse on the Essentials of Piercing

Chapter 51. Discourse on the Restrictions of Piercing

Chapter 52. Discourse on Prohibitions in Piercing

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Front matter 2

Contents Volume II

Prefatory notes to vol. 2

Annotated translation of su wen 53 through 71, 74 through 81

Chapter 53. Discourse on the Aims of Piercing

Chapter 54. Explanations on the Needles

Chapter 55. Discourse on Rules of Extended Piercing

Chapter 56. Discourse on Skin Sections

Chapter 57. Discourse On Conduits and Network [Vessels]

Chapter 58. Discourse on Qi Holes

Chapter 59. Discourse on Qi Palaces

Chapter 60. Discourse on Bone Hollows

Chapter 61. Discourse on Holes [to treat] Water and Heat.

Chapter 62. Discourse on Regulating the Conduits

Chapter 63. Discourse on Misleading Piercing

Chapter 64. Discourse on Opposition and Compliance in Piercing in [the Course of] the Four Seasons

Chapter 65. Discourse on Tip and Root and on the Transmission of Disease [Inside the Organism]

Chapter 66. Comprehensive Discourse on Arrangements of the Principal [Qi] of Heaven

Chapter 67. Comprehensive Discourse on the Progression of the Five Periods

Chapter 68. Comprehensive Discourse on the Subtle Significance of the Six [Qi]

Chapter 69. Comprehensive Discourse on Changes [resulting from] Qi Interaction

Chapter 70. Comprehensive Discourse on the Five Regular Policies

Chapter 71 Comprehensive Discourse on the Policies and Arrangements of the Six Principal [Qi]

Chapter 74. Comprehensive Discourse on the Essentials of the Most Reliable

Chapter 75. Discourse on Making Known the Perfect Teachings

Chapter 76. Discourse on Demonstrating a Natural Approach

Chapter 77. Discourse on Expounding the Five Faults

Chapter 78.Discourse on Evidence of the Four Failures

Chapter 79. Discourse on Yin and Yang Categories

Chapter 80. Discourse on Comparing Abundance and Weakness

Chapter 81 Discourse on Explaining the Subtleties of Essence

BIBLIOGRaphy

Notes:

"These 2 volumes will be sold as a boxed set under a single ISBN. No further volumes are forthcoming."--Comments, ECIP data view.

Includes bibliographical references.

Contains:

Su wen. English

ISBN:

9786613291776

9781283291774

1283291770

9780520948181

0520948181

OCLC:

756484688