Huang Di Nei Jing Ling Shu: The Ancient Classic on Needle Therapy

Huang Di Nei Jing Ling Shu: The Ancient Classic on Needle Therapy

by Paul U. Unschuld
Huang Di Nei Jing Ling Shu: The Ancient Classic on Needle Therapy

Huang Di Nei Jing Ling Shu: The Ancient Classic on Needle Therapy

by Paul U. Unschuld

Hardcover(First Edition, The Complete Chinese Text with an Annotated English Translation)

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Overview

The Ling Shu, also known as the Ling Shu Jing, is part of a unique and seminal trilogy of ancient Chinese medicine, together with the Su Wen and Nan Jing. It constitutes the foundation of a two-thousand-year healing tradition that remains active to this day. Its therapeutic approach is based on a purely secular science of nature, with natural laws serving as guidelines for human behavior and medical treatment. No other text offers such broad insights into the thinking and manifest action of the authors of the time. Following an introduction, this volume contains the full original Chinese text of the Ling Shu, an English translation of all eighty-one chapters, and notes on difficult-to-grasp passages and possible changes in the text over time on the basis of Chinese primary and secondary literature of the past two thousand years and translator Paul Unschuld’s own work. The Ling Shu reveals itself as a completely rational work, and, in many of its statements, a surprisingly modern one. It will provide the foundation for comparisons with the nearly contemporaneous Corpus Hippocraticum of ancient Europe and today’s iterations of traditional Chinese Medicine as well.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780520292253
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 07/19/2016
Edition description: First Edition, The Complete Chinese Text with an Annotated English Translation
Pages: 798
Sales rank: 801,208
Product dimensions: 6.40(w) x 9.10(h) x 2.20(d)

About the Author

Paul U. Unschuld is Professor and Director of the Horst-Goertz Endowment Institute for the Theory, History, and Ethics of Chinese Life Sciences at Charité-Medical University, Berlin. His previous books include Medicine in China: A History of Ideas and What is Medicine? Western and Eastern Approaches to Health Care.

Table of Contents

Introduction

1 A New World View, a New Healing 1

2 Huang Di-The Yellow Thearch 4

3 The New Terminology 5

3.1 Fa <$$$> 5

3.2 Ming <$$$> 8

3.3 Shen <$$$> 9

3.4 Zkeng <$$$> xie <$$$> 10

4 The Holism of Politics and Medicine 11

5 Morphology-Substrate and Classification 12

6 The Causes of Illness 15

7 Diagnosis 19

8 Conditions of Illness 22

9 Therapy 24

10 About the Translation 28

Abbreviations and Literature quoted 31

Annotated Translation of Ling Shu i Through 81

Chapter 1 <$$$> The Nine Needles and the Twelve Origin [Openings] 35

Chapter 2 <$$$> To Consider the Transportation [Openings] as the Foundation 53

Chapter 3 <$$$> Explanatory Remarks on the Small Needles 75

Chapter 4 <$$$> The Physical Appearances of Diseases resulting from the Presence of Evil qi in the Long-term Depots and Short-term Repositories. 85

Chapter 5 <$$$> Root and Connection 111

Chapter 6 <$$$> Longevity, Early Death, Hardness and Softness 125

Chapter 7 <$$$> The Official Needles 137

Chapter 8 <$$$> To Consider the Spirit as the Foundation 147

Chapter 9 <$$$> End and Beginning. 155

Chapter 10 <$$$> The Conduit Vessels 175

Chapter 11 <$$$> The Conduits and their Diverging [Vessels] 209

Chapter 12 <$$$> The Conduit/Stream Waters 215

Chapter 13 <$$$> The Conduits and their Sinews 225

Chapter 14 <$$$> The Measurements of the Bones 239

Chapter 15 <$$$> The 50-fold Circulation 245

Chapter 16 <$$$> The Camp Qi 249

Chapter 17 <$$$> The Measurements of the Vessels 253

Chapter 18 <$$$> Camp [Qi] and Guard [Qi] - Generation and Meeting 259

Chapter 19 <$$$> he Four Seasonal Qi 269

Chapter 20 <$$$> The Five Evils 275

Chapter 21 <$$$> Cold and Heat Disease 279

Chapter 22 <$$$> Peak-illness and Madness 287

Chapter 23 <$$$> Heat Diseases 293

Chapter 24 <$$$> The Receding [Qi] Diseases 305

Chapter 25 <$$$> The Diseases and their Roots 311

Chapter 26 <$$$> Various Diseases 315

Chapter 27 <$$$> Circulation Blockage-illness 321

Chapter 28 <$$$> Oral Inquiry 327

Chapter 29 <$$$> The Transmissions from the Teachers 341

Chapter 30 <$$$> Differentiation of the Qi 351

Chapter 31 <$$$> Intestines and Stomach 355

Chapter 32 <$$$> A Healthy Person Ends the Ingestion of Grain 357

Chapter 33 <$$$> On the Seas 361

Chapter 34 <$$$> The Five Disturbances 367

Chapter 35 <$$$> On Swelling 373

Chapter 36 <$$$> The Separation of the Five //Protuberance-Illnesses// Jin and Ye Liquids 383

Chapter 37 <$$$> The Five Observation Points and the Five Emissaries 387

Chapter 38 <$$$> Movements Contrary to and in Accordance with the Norms, Being Well Nourished and Being Malnourished 393

Chapter 39 <$$$> The Blood Network [Vessels] 401

Chapter 40 <$$$> Yin and Yang [Qi], Clear and Turbid [Qi] 405

Chapter 41 <$$$> The Ties between Yin and Yang [Qi] and Sun and Moon 409

Chapter 42 <$$$> The Transmission of Diseases 415

Chapter 43 <$$$> Excess Evils release Dreams 421

Chapter 44 <$$$> The Qi Moving in Accordance with the Norms Divide a Day into Four Time Periods 425

Chapter 45 <$$$> The Assessment from Outside 433

Chapter 46 <$$$> The Five Modifications 437

Chapter 47 <$$$> To Consider the Long-term Depots as Foundations 447

Chapter 48 <$$$> Prohibition and Appropriation 465

Chapter 49 <$$$> The Five Complexions 475

Chapter 50 <$$$> On Courage 489

Chapter 51 <$$$> The Transport [Openings] on the Back 497

Chapter 52 <$$$> The Guard Qi 501

Chapter 53 <$$$> On Pain 509

Chapter 54 <$$$> Years Given by Heaven 513

Chapter 55 <$$$> Movement Contrary to and in Accordance with the Norms 519

Chapter 56 <$$$> The Five Flavors 523

Chapter 57 <$$$> Water Swelling 529

Chapter 58 <$$$> The Robber Wind 533

Chapter 59 <$$$> When the Guard Qi Lose their Regularity 537

Chapter 60 <$$$> The Jade-Tablets 547

Chapter 61 <$$$> The Five Prohibitions 559

Chapter 62 <$$$> Transports 565

Chapter 63 <$$$> On Flavors 571

Chapter 64 <$$$> The Yin and Yang [Categorization] and the 25 Human [Types] 577

Chapter 65 <$$$> Five Tones, Five Substances 595

Chapter 66 <$$$> The Generation of the Hundreds of Diseases 603

Chapter 67 <$$$> The Application of the Needles 613

Chapter 68 <$$$> Upper Barrier 619

Chapter 69 <$$$> Grief, Rage, and Speechlessness 623

Chapter 70 <$$$> Cold and Heat Sensations 627

Chapter 71 <$$$> Evil Visitors 631

Chapter 72 <$$$> To Penetrate Heaven 647

Chapter 73 <$$$> Function and Competence 655

Chapter 74 <$$$> Discussing Illness; Examining the Foot-long Section 669

Chapter 75 <$$$> Piercing to Regulate True and Evil [Qi] 677

Chapter 76 <$$$> The Movements of the Guard Qi 699

Chapter 77 <$$$> The Nine Mansions, the Eight Winds 711

Chapter 78 <$$$> On the Nine Needles 719

Chapter 79 <$$$> The Dew of the Year 739

Chapter 80 <$$$> On Massive Confusion 753

Chapter 81 <$$$> Obstruction- and Impediment-Illnesses 763

Glossary 777

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