Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon

Author: Lun Min
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: Between heaven and earth, all things are (complete), and nothing is more precious than humans. The preservation of the human body relies on the nourishment of heaven and earth; deviation from this leads to illness. Yet humans can also heal, and with proper treatment, they are saved. The ancient physicians were the Yellow Emperor. After reading the Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon, one understands that diseases arise from the body, and the body exists within nature. When the heart resonates with the natural world, diseases do not arise. Therefore, healing begins with healing the heart. The principles of medicine align with the principles of life, and the methods of medicine are inseparable from the methods of the heart. Physicians who read the Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon grasp the essence of ancient medicine; benevolent individuals who read it understand the wisdom of "searching to the extreme limits of heaven's records, probing to the depths of earth's geography, drawing far from things, and taking near from the body, mutually questioning and discussing." Some believe that both the Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon and the I Ching originate from a prehistoric supercivilization or extraterrestrials, because the author of the Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon was indeed an supreme "human," a being far more advanced in thought than those of his time or even modern humans, hence called a "true ancient person" in ancient times. All of these attributes cast a mysterious aura over the Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon.