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The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Medicine: A New Translation of the Neijing Suwen with Commentary
Maoshing Ni
3.63 AVERAGE
5 reviews for:
The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Medicine: A New Translation of the Neijing Suwen with Commentary
Maoshing Ni
3.63 AVERAGE
Okay, so this is clearly not the most faithful translation on the planet. There's some poetic license taken, sure. But it's very accessible and it's close enough... closer than some of the China-based translations I've looked through.
It's always best to go straight from the Chinese and do it yourself, but sometimes you just don't have time for that!
It's always best to go straight from the Chinese and do it yourself, but sometimes you just don't have time for that!
challenging
informative
slow-paced
Interesting story format, we learn in the same way as the emperor asks the questions. But could be abstract at times, would require more explanation.
slow-paced
challenging
informative
slow-paced
This is the oldest book on my currently reading list. I started this back in acupuncture school and got busy, then burnt out. It is very dense with some great information. I finally finished the whole thing.
This is part of the NeiJing - the Yellow Emperor's classic. This is the Suwen with 81 chapters. And the 2nd part is the last 81 chapters - Lingsu. In school we are told this is one of the earliest classic texts we have for acupuncture. All throughout this book, they list other classic texts they used back then. I'm shocked how many others there are.
This book is a question and answer book. Huang Di asks a question and his teacher Qi Bo answers. So it's a little like reading someone notes from a lecture. Like any lecture, they have a topic they are discussing and a student will ask a question on a patient that is on a different topic and the teacher goes with it. That happens often here.
There are some typing errors in here. There are times they will say Shaoyin Gallbladder and they mean Shaoyin/ Kidney or something like that. It wasn't often, but I caught a few typos here and there.
It's amazing all the information in here. Much of it isn't used anymore, while much of it is. There is one remedy that I was stunned by. If someone is in a coma and they won't wake after needling the jing well points (tips of fingers) and other remedy's, they say to save the left temple of the person, burn the hair and grind it up and put it into tea and have the coma patient drink it. That is no longer used, plus someone in a coma would be in the hospital. Anyway. I would wake up only so I could spit that out. Good lord.
There are many chapters in here about the weather and astronomy and how it all affects disease. We don't really use that anymore. Anything in the natural world was in here basically.
I'm glad I read this. It reminded me of some things and it was good. There was also a great visualization I want to try at in the later part of the book for a physician to protect themselves from plague and other illnesses while treating people. Interesting.
This is part of the NeiJing - the Yellow Emperor's classic. This is the Suwen with 81 chapters. And the 2nd part is the last 81 chapters - Lingsu. In school we are told this is one of the earliest classic texts we have for acupuncture. All throughout this book, they list other classic texts they used back then. I'm shocked how many others there are.
This book is a question and answer book. Huang Di asks a question and his teacher Qi Bo answers. So it's a little like reading someone notes from a lecture. Like any lecture, they have a topic they are discussing and a student will ask a question on a patient that is on a different topic and the teacher goes with it. That happens often here.
There are some typing errors in here. There are times they will say Shaoyin Gallbladder and they mean Shaoyin/ Kidney or something like that. It wasn't often, but I caught a few typos here and there.
It's amazing all the information in here. Much of it isn't used anymore, while much of it is. There is one remedy that I was stunned by. If someone is in a coma and they won't wake after needling the jing well points (tips of fingers) and other remedy's, they say to save the left temple of the person, burn the hair and grind it up and put it into tea and have the coma patient drink it. That is no longer used, plus someone in a coma would be in the hospital. Anyway. I would wake up only so I could spit that out. Good lord.
There are many chapters in here about the weather and astronomy and how it all affects disease. We don't really use that anymore. Anything in the natural world was in here basically.
I'm glad I read this. It reminded me of some things and it was good. There was also a great visualization I want to try at in the later part of the book for a physician to protect themselves from plague and other illnesses while treating people. Interesting.