Master Hua's classic of the central viscera : A translation of Hua Tuo's Zhong Zang Jing

Publication of the first English language translation of this Chinese medical text bearing the name of the most famous Chinese doctor of antiquity, Hua Tuo, gives Western practitioners access to what is, perhaps, the premier proto-Daoist medical classic. In particular, this book is a great source of information on pulse diagnosis and is the locus classicus of the theory of warm supplementation, containing numerous fascinating herbal and alchemical formulas for both internal and external usage. Master Hua's Classic of the Central Viscera EDITOR'S PREFACE PREFACE TO THE RECOLLATED HUA SHI ZHONG ZANG JING Preface to the Hua Shi Zhong Zang Jing by Deng Chu-zhong Master of the Grotto of Promise & Blessing, Immortal of Subtle Probing of the Sma... TABLE OF CONTENTS BOOK ONE Chapter One On Humanity in Compliance with the Laws of Heaven & Earth Chapter Two On the Essentials of Yin & Yang and the Balance of the Spirit Chapter Three On Generation & Development Chapter Four On Yang Inversion Chapter Five On Yin Inversion Chapter Six On Block & Repellence of Yin & Yang Chapter Seven On Cold & Heat Chapter Eight On the Essentials of Vacuity & Repletion Chapter Nine On Disquietude Both above & below Chapter Ten On the Essentials of the Pulse Chapter Eleven On the Five Colors & Pulses1 Chapter Twelve On the Pulse as Prognosticative of External & Internal Disease Patterns Chapter Thirteen On the Essentials of (Determining) Life & Death Chapter Fourteen On the Disastrous & Aberrant Changes of Disease Chapter Fifteen On the Six Water (Treatment) Methods Chapter Sixteen On the Five Fire (Treatment) Methods Chapter Seventeen On the Five Kinds of Windstroke and Life & Death (Caused by Them) Chapter Eighteen On Accumulations & Gatherings, Concretions & Conglomerations, and Miscellaneous Wor... Chapter Nineteen On Taxation Injuries Chapter Twenty On Cadaverous Transmission (i.e., Consumptive Disease) Chapter Twenty-one On the Methods (for Examining for) Chapter Twenty-two On the Methods of (Examining) the Pulses and Chapter Twenty-three On the Methods of (Examining) the Pulses & Signs for Vacuity & Repletion, Hot &... Chapter Twenty-four On the Methods of (Examining) the Pulses & Signs for Vacuity & Repletion, Hot & ... Chapter Twenty-five On the Methods of (Examining) the Pulses & Signs for Vacuity & Repletion, Hot & ... Chapter Twenty-six On the Methods of (Examining) the Pulses & Signs for Vacuity & Repletion, Hot & C... Chapter Twenty-seven On the Methods of (Examining) the Pulses & Signs for Repletion & Vacuity, Hot &... Chapter Twenty-eight On the Methods of (Examining) the Pulses & Signs for Vacuity & Repletion, Hot &... Chapter Twenty-nine On the Methods of (Examining) the Pulses & Signs for Vacuity & Repletion, Hot & ... BOOK TWO Chapter Thirty On the Methods of (Examining) the Pulses & Signs for Vacuity & Repletion, Hot & Cold,... Chapter Thirty-one On the Methods of (Examining) the Pulses & Signs for Vacuity & Repletion, Hot & C... Chapter Thirty-two On the Methods of (Examining) the Pulses & Signs for Vacuity & Repletion, Hot & C... Chapter Thirty-three On Bi Chapter Thirty-four On Qi Bi Chapter Thirty-five On Blood Bi Chapter Thirty-six On Flesh Bi Chapter Thirty-seven On Sinew Bi Chapter Thirty-eight On Bone Bi Chapter Thirty-nine On the Treatment Methods for Wind Stroke & One-sided Withering Chapter Forty On the Signs & Manifestations of the Five Types of Clove Sores Chapter Forty-one On Yong & Ju, Sores & Swellings Chapter Forty-two On the Different Signs & Manifestations of Weak Foot Chapter Forty-three On the Pulses & Manifestations Which Prognosticate Life & Death in Water Swellin... Chapter Forty-four On Various Kinds of Strangury & Inhibited Urination Chapter Forty-five On the Plusses & Minuses of Taking Medicinals Chapter Forty-six On Identifying the Three Kinds of Glomus With an Appendix of Formulas Chapter Forty-seven On Mortal Signs Due to Inappropriate Treatment of Various Diseases Chapter Forty-eight On Examining the Mortal Signs in Miscellaneous Diseases Chapter Forty-nine Methods for Determining Life & Death by Examining Sounds, Colors, & Formal Manife... BOOK THREE Sixty-eight Formulas for Various Diseases Wan Ying Wan (All-responding Pills) Liu Shen Dan (Six Spirits Elixir) An Xi Xiang Yuan (Benzoin Pills) Ming Yue Dan (Bright Moon Elixir) Di Huang Jian (Rehmanniae Decoction) Qi Zheng Zhong Yang Tang (Eliminate Steaming [from the] Center Decoction) Bu Yao She Qi Yuan (Supplementing Medicinal Musk Deer Navel Pills) Tai Shang Yan Nian Wan Sheng Zhui Hun San (Great Heaven Prolong Life, Conquer All, Arrest the Hun Po... Zui Xian Dan (Drunken Immortal Elixir) Ling Wu Dan (Wonder-working Aconite Elixir) Bian Que Yu Hu Dan (Bian Que's Jade Pot Elixir) Ge Xuan Zhen Ren16 Bai Bu Gou Jing Yuan (Immortal Ge Xuan's Hundred Supplementing & Constructing Ess... Se Jing Jin Suo Dan (Astringe the Essence Gold Lock Elixir) Liao Bai Ji Yan Shou Jiu (Cure One Hundred Illnesses & Prolong Life Wine) Jiao Teng Yuan (Polygonum Multiflorum Pills) Tian Xian Yuan (Celestial Immortal's Pills)18 Zuo Ci Zhen Ren19 (Good at Nurturing in the Lu-copied version [later editor]) Qian Jin Di Huang Jian... Qu Ji Ju Fang (Formula for Removing Accumulations & Gatherings) Zhi Zheng Jia Fang (Formula for the Treatment of Concretions & Conglomerations Formula)21 Tong Qi A Wei Yuan (Asafoetida Free the Qi Pills) Zhi Shi Jue Zu Tong Fang (Formula for the Treatment of Deathlike Inversion & Sudden Pain Formula) Gui Ku Dan (Ghost Crying Elixir) Qu Chang Chong Jian Zhi Xin Tong Fang (Formula for Expelling Tapeworms & Also Treating Heart Pain) Zhi Chong Du Fang (Formula for the Treatment of Worm Toxins) Zai Sheng Yuan (Once More Life Pills) Jiu Sheng Yuan (Save Life Pills) San Sheng San (Three Lives Powder) Yu Chang Tang (Bathe Intestines Decoction) Po Huang Qi Shen Dan (Break Yellow, Seven Spirits Elixir) San Huang Yuan (Three Yellow Pills) Tong Zhong Yan Ming Xuan Ming Zhu Zhu Sha Fa (Free the Center, Sustain Life, Subtle Cinnabar Boiling... Zhi Bao Re Du Xin Fei Fan Er Ou Xue Fang (Formula for the Treatment of Acute Heat Toxin & Vexation o... Zhi Tu Xue Fang (Formula for the Treatment of Vomiting of Blood) Zhi Zhong Ye Si Xin Xia You Nuan Qi Si Fang (Formula for Rescuing Death Due to Summerheat Stroke wit... Yu Shuang Gao (Yuan in a variant version [tr.]; Jade Frost Paste) Bai Sheng Fang (Hundred Lives Formula) Zhi Lou Tai Tai Sun Fang (Formula for the Treatment of Leaking Fetus Bleeding & Fetal Detriment) Zhi Fu Ren Xue Beng Fang (Formula for the Treatment of Profuse Uterine Bleeding in Women) Zhi Fu Ren Xue Bi Fang (Formula for the Treatment of Blood Block in Women, i.e., Amenorrhea) San Bu Ming San (Three Not Chirping Formula) Gan Cao Tang (Licorice Decoction) Zhi Ni Si Fang (Formula for the Treatment of the Drowned) Zhi Yi Si Fang (Formula for the Treatment of the Hanged) Huai Zi San (Sophora Powder) Zhi Bao Chuan Yu Si Fang (Formula for the Treatment of Impending Death from Fulminant Dyspnea) Da Sheng Tong Shen Ru Xiang Gao (Great Divine Communicating with Spirits Frankincense Paste) Shui Cheng Gao (Clear Water Paste) Geng Su Gao (Renascence Paste) Qian Jin Gao (Paste [Worth] a Thousand [Taels of] Gold) Ding Ming Yuan (Stabilize Life Pills) She Xiang Yuan (Musk Pills) Xiang Shu San (Muskrat Powder) Ding Tong Sheng Ji Rou Fang (Settling Pain & Generating Flesh & Muscle Formula) You Ding Tong Sheng Ji Fang (another Formula for Settling Pain & Generating Muscle) Zhi Bai Ding Zeng Han Chuan Ji Hun Mao Fang (Formula for Treating White Clove Sores with Increasing2... You Qu Bai Ding Fang (another Formula for Removing White Clove Sores) Zhi Chi Ding Fang (Formula for Treating Red Clove Sores) You Qu Chi Ding Fang (another Formula for Removing Red Clove Sores) Zhi Huang Ding Fang (Formula for Treating Yellow Clove Sores) You Qu Huang Ding Fang (another Formula for Removing Yellow Clove Sores) Zhi Hei Ding Fang (Formula for Treating Black Clove Sores) Zhi Qing Ding Fang (Formula for Treating Cyan Clove Sores) GENERAL INDEX A B C D E F G H I J K, L M, N O, P Q R S T U V W X, Y, Z FORMULA INDEX A, B D G, H J, K, L, M P, Q S, T W, X, Y, Z