Chinese I Ching Medicine (4th Edition)

Author: Liu Jie
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: The Chinese Bagua Medicine combines systematic exposition with thematic discussions. It first comprehensively and systematically introduces the basic concepts and significance of the I Ching's imagery, numbers, and principles in medicine. It then analyzes the relationship between Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and Bagua, Bagua and multiple disciplines, integrating modern scientific theories and methods. This analysis explores the principles of the interconnectedness of medicine and the I Ching from both a profound and fundamental level, revealing the systematic theory of the correlation between humans and the universe. The book utilizes the Bagua symbol as a tool to conduct extensive research in various fields of TCM, highlighting the role and significance of the logical structure of Bagua in TCM, thereby constructing the framework of Chinese Bagua Medicine. The book is divided into sixteen chapters, covering topics such as the brief history of Bagua medicine, the fundamentals of Bagua medicine, the natural correspondences of Bagua, the Bagua theory of viscera and images, the Bagua theory of meridians, the Bagua theory of etiology, the Bagua theory of diagnosis, the Bagua ten-principle differentiation, the Bagua six-channel differentiation, the Bagua mutual-body treatment methods, the Bagua theory of herbal medicine, the Bagua theory of prescriptions, the Bagua acupuncture and acupoint selection, the Bagua Qigong cultivation, and the modern research on the principles of Bagua medicine. The book is characterized by its novel content, filling gaps in the field, rich historical records, and strong scientific rigor, making it a valuable reference for researchers in the fields of the I Ching and Bagua medicine, as well as for clinical TCM practitioners.