Нейдзин: Класическата китайска медицина на жълтия император

by Maoshing Ni, Маошин Ни, Валерий Русинов (Translator)

"Нейдзин“ е един от най-важните класически трудове на даоизма, както и най-висшият авторитет по традиционна китайска медицина. Авторството се приписва на великия Хуанди, Жълтия император, царувал през третото хилядолетие преди Христа. Този нов превод включва осемдесет и една глави от първата част на „Нейдзин“, известна като „Су-уън“, или „Въпроси на органичната и основополагаща природа“. (Другата част, наречена „Линшу“, е технически наръчник по акупунктура и не е включена тук.)

Написана под формата на беседа между Хуанди и негови служители, „Нейдзин“ от Жълтия император съдържа богатство от познание, включително етиология, физиология, диагностика, терапия и превенция на заболявания, както и задълбочено изследване на такива разнообразни теми, като етика, психология и космология. Всички са обсъдени в холистичен контекст, според който животът не е фрагментиран като модела, предлаган от съвременната наука, а по-скоро всичките части съставят едно взаимосвързано цяло. С разкриването на естествените закони на тази холистична вселена книгата предлага много практични съвети как да се поддържа дълъг, щастлив и здравословен живот.

Genres: Health, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Classics, Medicine, Philosophy, Science, Nonfiction

416 pages

First published May 10, 1995

Reviews

[Kat · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very fascinating reading on traditional Chinese medicine. I stumbled across TCM because of insomnia and immediately started to investigate the beliefs behind this practice. It helped me so much in the last couple of months. It’s not an easy read m, both because of the language/translation into English and the format, which is more like an explanation of a variety of symptoms and ailments than an actual book where you can go and look up at your specific problems. It helps you to understand sickness and well-being as a whole rather than focusing on one specific thing. I recommend for anyone interested in learning more about the general beliefs behind TCM.

[Medea · Rating 5 out of 5]

Not an easy read for someone without TCM background, and even for TCM student I do not recommend reading until you are doing supervised clinical work.

However, this is the best edition I have seen so far without being pure 'sinological'.Great for TCM practitioners without Classical Chinese understanding ( something is even rare in modern day China) to reflect in small dosages while doing modern day hectic clinical works. This book grounds you back to the principles and philosophy very well.

[Eric Grey · Rating 3 out of 5]

Okay, so this is clearly not the most faithful translation on the planet. There's some poetic license taken, sure. But it's very accessible and it's close enough... closer than some of the China-based translations I've looked through.

It's always best to go straight from the Chinese and do it yourself, but sometimes you just don't have time for that!

[Malini Chaudhri · Rating 5 out of 5]

Perhaps this is the most essential book in any practitioners library in the field of alternative medicine. It requires several readings and many years of absorbing its vast wisdom.
This is an anthology, mystically coded, on the secrets of immortality and longevity.

[C Settles · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent translation of the Chinese classic on medicine. After years of seeing this appear in footnotes and bibliographies, I finally decided to obtain a translation. This is a great prequel to any study of TCM.

[Ray Gates · Rating 4 out of 5]

A comprehensive and insightful book, though not for someone without at least a rudimentary grasp of Traditional Chinese Medicine and/or acupuncture. I feel this is the sort of book I will refer back to again and again as my own knowledge and understanding grows.

[Spider/Bryce Lisser · Rating 4 out of 5]

Mixed thoughts on incorporating footnotes into the text.

[Lisa · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a book to read more than once. In my first read-throughI gained a general understanding and a few places where long-standing questions were answered.

[Calista · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the oldest book on my currently reading list. I started this back in acupuncture school and got busy, then burnt out. It is very dense with some great information. I finally finished the whole thing.

This is part of the NeiJing - the Yellow Emperor's classic. This is the Suwen with 81 chapters. And the 2nd part is the last 81 chapters - Lingsu. In school we are told this is one of the earliest classic texts we have for acupuncture. All throughout this book, they list other classic texts they used back then. I'm shocked how many others there are.

This book is a question and answer book. Huang Di asks a question and his teacher Qi Bo answers. So it's a little like reading someone notes from a lecture. Like any lecture, they have a topic they are discussing and a student will ask a question on a patient that is on a different topic and the teacher goes with it. That happens often here.

There are some typing errors in here. There are times they will say Shaoyin Gallbladder and they mean Shaoyin/ Kidney or something like that. It wasn't often, but I caught a few typos here and there.

It's amazing all the information in here. Much of it isn't used anymore, while much of it is. There is one remedy that I was stunned by. If someone is in a coma and they won't wake after needling the jing well points (tips of fingers) and other remedy's, they say to save the left temple of the person, burn the hair and grind it up and put it into tea and have the coma patient drink it. That is no longer used, plus someone in a coma would be in the hospital. Anyway. I would wake up only so I could spit that out. Good lord.

There are many chapters in here about the weather and astronomy and how it all affects disease. We don't really use that anymore. Anything in the natural world was in here basically.

I'm glad I read this. It reminded me of some things and it was good. There was also a great visualization I want to try at in the later part of the book for a physician to protect themselves from plague and other illnesses while treating people. Interesting.

[Jenny · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting story format, we learn in the same way as the emperor asks the questions. But could be abstract at times, would require more explanation.