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Item No: BK08064
Title: Chinese Medicine from the Classics: Spleen & Stomach
Author: LARRE Claude & ROCHAT DE LA VALLE Elisabeth
Publisher: Monkey Press, 1990 1st Edition
Language: English, 210 x 145mm, 2004 reprint, 180pp
ISBN: 9781872468037
Book Description
Spleen & Stomach begins with the Chinese concept of the centre and the ideograms for the organs. It discusses their functions as storehouses and granaries, and explores in depth their five phase resonances as earth, the source of all stability through change. The very close, interdependent relationship between spleen and stomach is examined, as is the pre-eminence of the stomach amongst the fu.
The book contains a detailed study of the spleen and stomach from the Neijing, threading together key passages which present them in different contexts. This covers the spleen's relationship with the kidneys, and the relationships between yang ming, chong mai, zong jin (ancestral muscle) and xu li (great luo of the stomach). The substantial appendix summarizes the functions of spleen and stomach, and selected quotations from the Neijing are given. The pathology is presented in brief with principle causes of disease.
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