Oriental Life Garden, I Ching and Traditional Chinese Medicine

Author: Zhang Qicheng
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Publish Date: 2003-07-01
Features: What is a human? What is life? In the West, a human is seen as a machine, a rational being, or an autonomous existence; life can be analyzed into organs, cells, proteins, and DNA. In the East, in China, a human is considered the "soul of all things," a symbolic system. The study of the I Ching and Traditional Chinese Medicine have constructed this symbolic system based on the framework of Qi, Yin-Yang, and the Five Elements, and upon this foundation, they have built models of human physiology, pathology, diagnosis, and treatment, thereby reducing humans to living beings that are isomorphic, isomorphic in order, and interchangeable with heaven and all things. This book takes you into a garden about your own life, where you will feel the rich Eastern atmosphere of symbolism, Qi, Zang-Xiang, meridians, and the Five Elements' influence. You will also admire life landscapes with a mysterious and distinctively non-Western style.