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Item No: BK08071
Title: Chinese Medicine from the Classics: The Secret Treatise of the Spiritual Orchid: Neijing Suwen, Chapter 8
Author: LARRE Claude & ROCHAT DE LA VALLE Elisabeth
Publisher: Monkey Press, 2003 Revised edition
Language: English, 210 x 145mm, 190pp
ISBN: 9781872468006
Book Description
This book is a perfect introduction to the zangfu and their charges as set out in Neijing Suwen chapter 8. Suwen chapter 8 is a text of simplicity and clarity, and of a deceptive brevity which hides a wealth of potent images and concepts. It depicts a Confucian-style court hierarchy in which the heart is emperor, the lung is prime minister and so on. Each official has his sphere of activity, his functions and his interactions.
The Secret Treatise starts with an analysis of the first seven chapters of the Neijing Suwen, and then continues with a line by line discussion of chapter 8. An appendix gives the Chinese text and a translation. There is also an index of all main concept and Chinese characters.
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