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Survey of traditional Chinese medicine

Title
Survey of traditional Chinese medicine / Claude Larre, Jean Schatz, Elisabeth Rochat de la Vallée ; translated by Sarah Elizabeth Stang ; calligraphy by Ho Mou Tchen ; diagrams by P. Voinet.
Author
Schatz, Jean.
Publication
Paris : Institut Ricci ; Columbia, Md. : Traditional Acupuncture Foundation, ©1986.

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Additional Authors
  • Larre, Claude.
  • Rochat de la Vallée, Elisabeth.
Description
231 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Summary
A philosophical overview of Traditional Chinese Medicine. A look at its roots in the Chinese language, and the way of Chinese thought which created the Chinese healing arts. This text emphasizes the critical importance of examining ancient Chinese texts which are the basis for Traditional Acupuncture.
Uniform Title
Aperçus de médecine chinoise traditionnelle. English
Alternative Title
Aperçus de médecine chinoise traditionnelle.
Subject
  • Medicine, Chinese
  • Acupuncture
  • Acupuncture Therapy
  • Medicine, Chinese Traditional
Note
  • Translation of: Aperçus de médecine chinoise traditionnelle / Jean Schatz, Claude Larre, Elisabeth Rochat de la Vallée.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Placing of medicine in Chinese thought. Structure of traditional acupuncture -- History -- On the Chinese language -- Tao, Ying/Yang -- Tao -- Ying/Yang -- Breaths -- Heaven-Earth-Man -- Early heaven and later heaven -- Four seasons -- Inside/outside (nei/wai) : Face/interface (biao/li) -- Hard and soft -- Cold and heat -- Empty and full -- Having and not having -- Perspectives of traditional Chinese physiology. Acupuncture in Chinese medicine -- Body -- Differentiated energies -- Abnormal or pathological energies -- Energetic organization of the body -- Zang and Fu.
ISBN
  • 0912381000
  • 9780912381008
LCCN
86006965
OCLC
  • ocm13358587
  • 13358587
  • SCSB-1160279
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Princeton University Library