Huangfu Mi was born in the year 215 in a poor farmhouse in Anding Chaona (now Lingtai of Gansu Province) of the Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220). He was first named as Jing, later changed into Mi, with a style name of Shi’an. When he was young, he took the famous scholar, Xi Tan, in his village as his teacher, and several years later, he became a well-known scholar. In his opinion,only when you had given up the pursuit for fame and wealth could you do no damage to your life and when you given up the pursuit for riches and honor could you cultivate great virtues. (more…)
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Chinese First Acupuncture and Moxibustion Book Writer-Huangfu Mi
Wednesday, December 26th, 2007The Medical Classic of the Yellow Emperor
Friday, December 21st, 2007
As the oldest extant classic of traditional Chinese medicine, its first word-for-word translation from Chinese to English is published by Beijing Foreign Languages Press.
Compiled roughly two thousand years ago, this great work forms the theoretical basis of TCM. As TCM’s history developed over the millennia, nearly all significant medical works benefited from the enlightenment of this unparalleled book. Covering not only medicine but also philosophy, sociology, anthropology, military strategy, mathematics, astronomy, meteorology, ecology, (more…)
9 Ways to Nurture Your Emotional Health (Book Excerpt)
Monday, December 10th, 2007By Brian Benjamin Carter, MSci, LAc
At my literary agent’s behest, I’ve been working on radio and magazine press to pre-publicize my book, Chinese Medicine: A Practical Guide to Optimal Healing (now called Powerful Body, Peaceful Mind: How to Heal Yourself with Foods, Herbs, and Acupressure). In the process, I’ve been distilling how-to lists. I’ve gotten so excited about them, that it’s been very tempting to include them in the Pulse. But, I can’t give it all away, or there’ll be no reason to buy the book, and neither my publisher nor my agent will be very happy with me!
Translation and Distillation
As I’ve discussed elsewhere, Chinese medicine is still in the midst of a long and complicated process of translation. Since Chinese language is made of symbols, you could say the Chinese think differently than those of us brought up in the romantic languages. It’s not easy, for example, to translate qi into just one word. Well, I’ll leave the translation to the scholars, and monitor that discussionfor you. My thing is explaining it to the public… and that’s how we come to distillation. (more…)
Shang Han Lun
Thursday, August 9th, 2007The Shang Han Lin or the Shang Han Bin Lun is the treatasie on Cold Disease Damage by Zhang Zhong Jing published in 220 A.D. by the Hippocrates of Traditional Chinese medicine. The Shang Han Za Bing Lun is the oldest complete clinical textbook in world medical history, and the Shang Han Lun is one of the four most important canonical medical classics which students must study in Chinese medical education.
The Shang Han Lun has 397 sections with 112 herbal prescriptions. The discussion is based on the Six Divisions: [[1]] The Six Divisions of the Shang Han Lun are: (more…)
Huangdi Neijing
Thursday, August 9th, 2007Huangdi Neijing (Simplified Chinese: 黄å¸å†…ç»; Traditional Chinese: 黃å¸å…§ç¶“; Pinyin: Huángdì NèijÄ«ng), also known as Inner Canon of Huangdi or Inner Canon of Yellow Emperor is the most early extant theory work for Traditional Chinese medicine. The book is about finished in Warring States Period.
It is the seminal medical text of ancient China. The theoretical foundations for Chinese Medicine are systematically covered. The work is composed of two texts each of eighty one chapters or treatises in a question and answer format between the mythical Huangdi (Yellow Emperor) and his ministers. (more…)