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The Medical I Ching: Oracle of the Healer Within

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While I agree with the previous reviewer that this book is gonna be hard to use by someone who knows little or nothing about Chinese medicine, as a professional practitioner of Chinese medicine, I and my many patients have found this book invaluable for helping to clarify otherwise hazy situations. The I Ching needs to be interpreted no matter what use it is put to. So you have to contemplate the hexagrams and moving lines from several points of view: trigrams, yin and yang lines, map of the body, image, and commentary. For me, this book provides a new and different starting place to think about my patients' problems. It is not a simple cook book for "looking up" precise medical diagnoses and what to do for them. Personally, I don't think the previous reviewer has really hung out with this book or the I Ching in general. I would certainly recommend it to anyone interested in learning how to interpret the I Ching from a medical point of view.

I purchased this book, hoping it would be of the caliber of Richard Wilhelm's book... you know, something a couple inches thick with involved commentary. If anyone knows a medical I-Ching book like that, then please let me know. So the book is highly dissapointing. I wish he would come out with a practitioner's evolved version. Then even if it cost a couple hundred dollars, it would be worth it. Only the very top level of Dr. Shima's knowledge is expressed here. The profound levels are left unexplored.

Interpretations of the I Ching have been used for many a purpose, and medicine is a very interesting and somewhat obvious application. The author is convincing that he knows his topic, however, I suspect he isn't revealing his depth of knowledge in this book. As a licensed practitioner of Chinese Medicine, I found the book to be accurate in Chinese terms, but far too limited and superficial. The language of Chinese Medicine is used here, and will be difficult for a layperson to understand unless they have done a fair bit of reading on the subject prior. The translation of Chinese Medical conditions into Western terms invariably proves inaccurate. The book is great idea from someone who I'm certain understands the topic, but somehow it doesn't really succeed.

It is accurate, and it completes spiritually and practically each one involved in the I Ching system.

I have heard about this book through my bioenergetic circle and as we are working with iching a lot, looked forward to read it, purchased it to be more informed about medical side of it.

For me it turned out to be very confusing in technics, and awful depressive in explanation. After having tried to read it for 2 hours I have thrown it away as soon as I reached the wastebin. Not that I easily throw books away, normally I admit that the book can be not for me for the moment, though there was something really negative in it, I did not even want to show it to anyone to get someone elses opinion. Hope there will be more positive books on medical iching.