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Books on the Classics
| These are translations of the ancient texts where chinese medicine began. | |
 Yellow Emperors Classic of Internal Medicine by Maoshing Ni - The newest translation of the book where it all comes from. This is less of a scholarly translation and more of a well written extrapolation. |
 The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine by Ilza Veith - This version is more of a direct translation of the classic text, and though not as easy a read as Maoshing's, probably more true to the text. |
 Shang Han Lun by Craig Mitchell, et al - Zhang Zhong Jing's Classic which explains the progression of a disease from exterior to interior. This edition features the Chinese text, Pinyin transliteration, and an English translation of the entire Song Dynasty text. |
 Warm Disease Theory: Wen Bing Xue by Jian Min Wen - This book introduces warm disease and provides history, identification, and more general treatment. It also discusses treating individual warm diseases of the four seasons. |
 The Treatise on the Spleen and Stomach by Li Dong-Yuan - This is the book which elevated the spleen and stomach to pivotal importance in the theory and practice of tcm. However, it also introduced the concept of yin fire, one of the more important concepts in understanding complicated internal diseases. |
 Nan-Ching: The Classic of Difficult Issues by Paul U. Unschuld - Written in the late Han Dynasty, this is the book that systematized pulse diagnosis at the radial arteries on the wrists and that also systematized the use of the 60 transport points in five phase acupuncture. |