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Statements of Fact in Traditional Chinese Medicine (English and Mandarin Chinese Edition)

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Statements of fact are phrases that help students and practitioners of Chinese medicine remember principles of their art. Often written originally in verse, these statements help keep us from straying too far from the root of our medicine and help organize our thinking about health and disease. Such statements are one reason that some Chinese practitioners are able to think their way out of wierd situations. They can constantly go back to first principles, then extrapolate in a creative way how to apply those to situations outside of usual textbook descriptions. We practitioners in the West should also endeavor to keep these principles at hand.
This book is a means to do just that. This new edition is a little larger than the previous edition, and it provides the original Chinese statements along with the English translation. Really interested folks can then make stabs at looking up the meanings of the original and can not only see what the translators had to go through, but can also absorb bits of the multiplicity of meanings in what seems at first to be simple statements. I've been in practice for several years and I still like to carry this around with me to keep the central ideas fresh and cement my understanding of first principles. If you practice or study Chinese medicine, you should own this book.

The book I ordered (pictured) was not the book I received. There are apparently 2 (or more) books with the same ISBN. One book (pictured) is 230 pages, and the other (older version) is 130 pages and NOT updated or expanded. The older book is still a good read though.

This is a good book. But I choked when I found, I spent $16 on such a tiny book. Time will tell if is worth it.
Medical books are expensive.