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Item No: BK07035
Title: A Dictionary of the Huangdi Neijing Suwen (With CD)
Author: TESSENAU Hermann & UNSCHULD Paul
Publisher: California University Press, 2008 1st Edition
Language: English, 812pp
ISBN: 9780520253582
Book Description
This dictionary reflects the English meanings of Chinese characters and character compounds laid down in the annotated edition of the Huang Di Nei Jing Su Wen, translated by Hermann Tessenow and Paul U. Unschuld. The Huang Di Nei Jing Su Wen is a seminal text of ancient Chinese medicine and natural philosophy. It reflects empirical knowledge and the doctrines of yin-yang and Five Agents in the perception of the human body and its organs, qi and the blood, pathogenic agents, concepts of disease and diagnosis, and a variety of therapies, including acupuncture. The dictionary comes with a CD containing two concordances that list all characters along the pinyin-alphabetical sequence.
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