| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 223 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Preface -- Book one. Introduction ; Chapter 1: Daoism & Chinese medicine ; Chapter 2: Biographies of famous Daoist doctors ; Chapter 3: Daoist philosophy & the Nei Jing ; Chapter 4: How Daoist acupuncture techniques became the common knowledge of Chinese medicine -- Book two. The basic theories of Daoist acupuncture ; Chapter 1: Tai Ji & Yin Yang ; Chapter 2: The Yellow River chart & Luo River inscription ; Chapter 3: The nine palaces & eight trigrams ; Chapter 4: Heavenly stems, earthly branches & the cycle of 60 stem-branch pairs ; Chapter 5: The five movements & six Qi -- Book three. Daoist needling & moxibustion methods ; Chapter 1: Special needling & moxibustion techniques ; Chapter 2: Special methods of point selection ; Chapter 3: Time-based prohibitions to acumoxatherapy -- Book four. The timing of acupuncture & moxibustion ; Chapter 1: Midday-midnight point selection ; Chapter 2: Eightfold method of the sacred tortoise ; Chapter 3: The soaring eightfold method -- Book five. Life-nourishing & emergency acupuncture-moxibustion ; Chapter 1: Life-nourishing moxibustion -- Chapter 2: Emergency acumoxatherapy -- Book Six. Secret Daoist acumoxa methods ; Chapter 1: Fine jade true person's secret tips ; Chapter 2: The eleven & twelve heavenly star points ; Chapter 3: Two true persons & one immortal's songs on treating disease -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-214) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Acupuncture.
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Moxa.
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Medicine -- Religious aspects -- Taoism.
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Medicine, Chinese.
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Acupuncture Therapy
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Moxibustion
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Medicine, Chinese Traditional
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MEDICAL -- Acupuncture.
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Acupressure & Acupuncture.
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Acupuncture
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Medicine, Chinese
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Medicine -- Religious aspects -- Taoism
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Moxa
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hua, Ka
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| LC no. |
98074995 |
| ISBN |
0585122903 |
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9780585122908 |
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