Mawangdui yi shu yi zhu = Early Chinese medical literature: the Mawangdui medical manuscripts

Front Cover......Page 1
Early Chinese Medical Literature......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
List of Figures......Page 9
Preface......Page 10
Prolegomena......Page 12
 Introduction......Page 13
  Manuscript Discovery......Page 24
  List of Mawangdui Medical Manuscripts and Texts......Page 32
  Other Excavated Manuscripts Related to Medicine......Page 40
  Provenance and Hermeneutic Issues......Page 46
 Section Two: Medicine, Medical Literature, Medical Men......Page 52
  Recipes, Techniques, Calculations, Arts......Page 55
  Readership and Transmission......Page 65
 Section Three: Medical Ideas and Practices......Page 78
  Illness......Page 79
  Physiology......Page 87
  Therapy......Page 100
  Materia Medica......Page 108
 Section Four: Macrobiotic Hygiene......Page 120
  Intellectual Background......Page 122
  Body and Spirit......Page 129
  Techniques......Page 135
  Philosophy and Macrobiotic Hygiene......Page 152
 Section Five: Magic......Page 158
  Magical Recipes......Page 160
  Varieties of Magic......Page 169
  Recipes of Yue......Page 183
Translation......Page 194
 Introduction......Page 195
  MSI.A "Zubi shiyi mai jiujing"(Cauterization canon of the eleven vessels of the foot and forearm)......Page 200
  MSI.B "Yin Yang shiyi maijiujing," jiaben (Cauterization canon of the eleven Yin and Yang vessels, ed. A)......Page 211
  MSI.C "Maifa" (Model of the vessels)......Page 221
  MSI.D "Yin Yang mai sihou" (Death signs of the Yin and Yang vessels)......Page 227
  MSI.E "Wushier bingfang" (Recipes for fifty-two ailments)......Page 229
  MSlI.A "Quegu shiqi" (Eliminating grain and eating vapor)......Page 313
  MSII.C "Daoyin tu" (Drawings of guiding and pulling)......Page 318
 MSIII "Yangsheng fang" (Recipes for nurturing life)......Page 336
 MSIV "Zaliao fang" (Recipes for various cures)......Page 371
 MSV "Taichan shu" (Book of the generation of the fetus)......Page 380
  MSVI.A "Shiwen" (Ten questions)......Page 420
  MSVII.B "Tianxia zhidao tan" (Discussion of the culminant way inUnder-heaven)......Page 433
  MSVII.A "Zajin fang" (Recipes for various charms)......Page 431
Appendix 1:Transcription of MSI.B, MSI.C, and MSI.D......Page 447
Appendix 2:Revisions to the Transcription of Graphs in MWD, vol. 4......Page 455
Han Weights and Measures......Page 461
Bibliography......Page 462
Index of Materia Medica......Page 484
Index of Physiological Terms......Page 519
Index of Ailments......Page 538
General Index......Page 552