Yellow Empero's Canon

Internal Medicine

 

Author(s): Bing Wang, Nelson Liansheng Wu, Andrew Qi Wu

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Summary: A Traditional Chinese Medicine classic text, written over 2000 years ago.  It is the earliest and most comprehensive medical classic from both a theoretical and clinical viewpoint.  It covers a variety of subjects including man and nature, human anatomy and physiology, causes of disease, pathology, diagnosis, differentiation of symptoms and signs, treatment, disease prevention, health preservation, and so forth.

Table of Contents:

PART ONE: PLAIN QUESTIONS

     Chapter 1: On Human Preserving Health Energy in Ancient Times

     Chapter 2: On preserving Health in Accordance with the Four Seasons

     Chapter 3: On the Human Vital Energy Connecting with Nature

     Chapter 4: The Truth in the Collections of Books of Golden Chamber

     Chapter 5: The Corresponding Relation between the Yin and Yang Of Man and All 

                      Things and That of the Four Seasons

     Chapter 6: The Individual Activities and the Mutual Functions of Yin and Yang

     Chapter 7: The Yin and Yang of Pulse Condition

     Chapter 8: The Confidential Collections in the Royal Library about the functions of the 

                            Twelve Viscera

     Chapter 9: The Close Relation between the Viscera in Human Body with the 

                           Environment of the Outside World

     Chapter 10: The Functions of the Five Viscera to Human Body and Their Mutual  

                          Relations

     Chapter 11: The Different Functions between the Hollow Organs and the 

                              Extraordinary Hollow Organs for Digestion and Elimination

     Chapter 12: Discriminative Treating of Patients of Different Regions

     Chapter 13: On the Therapy of Transferring Thought and Spirit

     Chapter 14: On Rice Soup. Turbid Wine, and Sweet Wine

     Chapter 15: Methods of Palpation for Measuring and Distinguishing the Diseases 

                        Recorded on the Jade Tablet

     Chapter 16: The Essentials of Diagnosis and the Symptoms of the Severing of the Twelve 

                        Channels

     Chapter 17: The Essentials and Fundamentals of Diagnostic Palpation

     Chapter 18: On the Normal Pulse of a Person

     Chapter 19: The Valuable Collections of the Jade Plate on the Pulse Conditions Indicating 

                         the Exhaustion of the Visceral Energy

     Chapter 20: On the Three Parts and the Nine Sub-Parts of the Pulse

     Chapter 21: Further Comments on Channel

     Chapter 22: On the Relation between Energies of the Five Viscera and the Four Seasons

     Chapter 23: Expounding the Energies of the Five Viscera

     Chapter 24: On Blood, Energy, Body, and Spirit

     Chapter 25: Following the Principle of Nature in Treating

     Chapter 26: The Relation between the Weather Change of Eight main Solar Terms and 

                        the Purging  and Invigorating by Acupuncture

     Chapter 27: Matters Needing Attention in Acupuncture

     Chapter 28: On the Asthenia and Sthenia

     Chapter 29: On the Relations between the Superficies and Interior and Taiyin and 

                        Yangming Channels

     Chapter 30: The Explanation on the Yangming Channel

     Chapter 31: On Febrile Disease

     Chapter 32: Acupuncture for Treating the Febrile Diseases of the Viscera

     Chapter 33: On Febrile Disease

     Chapter 34: On Maladjustments

     Chapter 35: On Malaria

     Chapter 36: On Treating Malaria with Acupuncture

     Chapter 37: The Diseases Due to the Intertransference of Cold and Heat Evils between 

                        Various Organs

     Chapter 38: On Cough

     Chapter 39: On the Pathology of Pain

     Chapter 40: On Abdominal Diseases

     Chapter 41: The Pricking therapy  for Lumbago of Various Channels

     Chapter 42: On Wind-evil

     Chapter 43: On Bi-disease

     Chapter 44: On Flaccidity

     Chapter 45: On Jue-syndrome

     Chapter 46: On Various Diseases

     Chapter 47: On Extraordinary Diseases

     Chapter 48: On Strange Diseases

     Chapter 49: On Channels

     Chapter 50: The Essentials of Acupuncture

     Chapter 51: The Proper Depth of Pricking

     Chapter 52: The Forbidden Position of Pricking

     Chapter 53: On Treating Asthenia and Sthenia with Acupuncture

     Chapter 54: Explanation  on Needles

     Chapter 55: Supplemental Commentary on Pricking

     Chapter 56: On the Parts of the Skin

     Chapter 57: On Collaterals

     Chapter 58: On Acupoints

     Chapter 59: The Acupoints Associated with Various Channels

     Chapter 60: On the Cavity of the Bone

     Chapter 61: On the Shu-points for Treating the Fluid-retention Syndrome and Fever

     Chapter 62: On Adjusting the Channels by Pricking

     Chapter 63: On Contralateral Pricking

     Chapter 64: The Regular and Adverse Treatments of Acupuncture in the Four Seasons

     Chapter 65: The Branch and Root and the Transferring Sequence of the Disease

     Chapter 66: The Yin and Yang of the Five Elements Motion and the Six Kinds of 

                        Weather as the Guiding Principles of the Universe

     Chapter 67: On the Five Elements of Motion

     Chapter 68: The Exquisite Meaning of Six Energies

     Chapter 69: Changes in the Intersection of Energies

     Chapter 70: On the Energies of the Five Elements' Motion

     Chapter 71: On the changes and Symbols of the Five Elements' Motion and the Six Kinds 

                        of Weather in the Cycle of Sixty Years

     Chapter 72: On Pricking Therapy

     Chapter 73: On the Source of Disease

     Chapter 74: The Various Changes in the Dominations of the Six Energies and their

                        Relations with the Diseases

     Chapter 75: The Supreme Principle which Relates to Heaven, Earth, and Man

     Chapter 76: Diagnose According to the Established Norm in a Leisured Way

     Chapter 77: The Five Faults in Diagnosis

     Chapter 78: The Four Reasons in the Failure of Treating

     Chapter 79: On the Three Yin Channels and the Three Yang Channels

     Chapter 80: On the Prosperity and Debility of the Yin and Yang Energies

     Chapter 81: Interpretation of the Subtle Reason of the Falling of Tears

PART TWO: SPIRITUAL PIVOT

     Chapter 1: The Nine Kinds of Needle and the Twelve Source Points

     Chapter 2: On Acupoints

     Chapter 3: Explanation on Small Needles

     Chapter 4: The Visceral Diseases Caused by Evil Energy

     Chapter 5: The Beginning and end of the Channel

     Chapter 6: On the Relation between firmness and Softness of Body and One's Life Span

     Chapter 7: On the Application of Needles

     Chapter 8: The Diseases Caused by Spiritual Activity

     Chapter 9: The Beginning and Terminal of the Channels

     Chapter 10: On Channels

     Chapter 11: Branches of the Twelve Channels

     Chapter 12: The Water of Channels

     Chapter 13: The Tendons Distributed Along the Channels

     Chapter 14: Measurement of Bone

     Chapter 15: The Fifty Cycles of the Channel-energy Circulation

     Chapter 16: The Ying-energy

     Chapter 17: The Length of Channels

     Chapter 18: The Issue of Distribution and Operation of Ying-energy and Wei-energy

     Chapter 19: Application of Different Pricking Therapies in Different Seasons

     Chapter 20: The Pricking Therapy for Treating the Evils in Five Viscera

     Chapter 21: Cold and Heat

     Chapter 22: Mania-depressive Syndrome

     Chapter 23: Febrile Disease

     Chapter 24: Jue Syndrome

     Chapter 25: In Treating the Root and Branch of the Disease

     Chapter 26: Miscellaneous Diseases

     Chapter 27: The Bi-syndrome all over the Body

     Chapter 28: The Treating Therapy from Oral Inquiry

     Chapter 29: Treating Instructions Imparted by Present Masters

     Chapter 30: The Energies

     Chapter 31: The Intestine and Stomach

     Chapter 32: The Fast of an Ordinary Man

     Chapter 33: On the Four Seas

     Chapter 34: The Five Disturbances

     Chapter 35: On Distension

     Chapter 36: The Five Kinds of Body Fluid

     Chapter 37: Determining the Conditions of the Five Viscera by Examining the Five Sense

                        Organs

     Chapter 38: Different Acupuncture therapies to People of Different Fat and Lean

                        Physiques and the Adverse and Agreeable Conditions of the Twelve

                        Channels

     Chapter 39: On Superficial Venules

     Chapter 40: The Lucid and Turbid of the Yin and Yang Energies

     Chapter 41: The Yin and Yang of Human Body Relate to the Su and Moon

     Chapter 42: The Transmission of Disease

     Chapter 43: Dream Induced by Evil Energy

     Chapter 44: The Human Healthy Energy in the Day and Night Corresponds with the

                        Energies of the Four Seasons

     Chapter 45: Determination from Outside

     Chapter 46: The Five Kinds of Affections

     Chapter 47: The Various Conditions of Internal Organs Relating Different Diseases

     Chapter 48: Understanding the Channels Thoroughly before Pricking

     Chapter 49: The Five Colours

     Chapter 50: On Braveness

     Chapter 51: The Back-shu Points of the Five Viscera

     Chapter 52: On the Wei-energy

     Chapter 53: On Pain

     Chapter 54: The Natural Span of Life

     Chapter 55: The Agreeableness and Averseness

     Chapter 56: The Five Tastes

     Chapter 57: The Edema

     Chapter 58: The Evil Wind

     Chapter 59: Treating the Abnormal wei-energy

     Chapter 60: The Plate of Jade

     Chapter 61: The Five Contraindications

     Chapter 62: The Pulsations of Arteries

     Chapter 63: On the Five Tastes

     Chapter 64: The Twenty Five Kinds of People in Different Characteristics of Yin and 

                        Yang

     Chapter 65: The Five Tones and Five Tastes

     Chapter 66: The Initiation of Various Diseases

     Chapter 67: Needle Transmission

     Chapter 68: Vomiting Instantly after Food Intake

     Chapter 69: Dysphonia due to Melancholy and Resentment

     Chapter 70: Cold and Heat

     Chapter 71 Retention of the Evils

     Chapter 72: The Different Types of Man

     Chapter 73: Each According to Ability

     Chapter 74: The Determine the Disease by Inspecting the Skin of the Anterolateral Side 

                        of the Forearm

     Chapter 75: The Criterions of Pricking and the Difference Between Healthy Energy and 

                        Evil Energy

     Chapter 76: The Circulation of Wei-energy

     Chapter 77: The Nine Palaces and the Eight Winds

     Chapter 78: On the Nine Kinds of Needles

     Chapter 79: On the Dews of the Year

     Chapter 80: On the Big Perplexity

     Chapter 81: On Carbuncle and Deep-rooted Carbuncle