Returning to the Source

Praise for Returning to the Source. Dedication. Foreword by Sabine Wilms. Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. Philosophy and medical education: The missing piece. 2. Ecological medicine: The heart of the Su wen medical philosophy. 3. Chinese medicine and the internal pharmacy: The body/mind's self healing tools and substances. 4. The Picasso Principle: Developing multivalent diagnostic acumen. 5. The technician and scholar physician. 6. Thermodynamics and autoimmune disease: Essential principles of treatment. 7. M+ái xi+áng ??/Pulse image: The core of Chinese medical diagnosis. 8. Z+áng xi+áng ??/Visceral manifestation: The core of Chinese medical diagnostic systems. 9. The perfect storm: An approach to time in Chinese medicine. 10. Gan y+¼ng ??/Resonance: An essential principle of classical Chinese medicine. 11. Case histories. Afterword by Ken Rose. Appendix I: Drugs and their effects on the pulse. Appendix II: The importance of terminology and language in grasping Chinese medicine. Appendix III: Resources for learning medical Chinese language. Appendix IV: Pulse maps from classical texts and physicians' schools. Appendix V: Abdominal Algorithms/Qualities of Palpation. Appendix VI: Nan jing 18 pulse model. Glossary of terms and classical texts. References.

Spiced up liberally with enlightening quotations from Chinese medical literature ... This book is a powerful distillation of the key messages from the ancient Chinese medical classics, as relevant today as they were two thousand years ago.