The Treatise on the Spleen and Stomach: A Translation of the Pi Wei Lun [Paperback]

Li Dong-Yuan (Author), Yang Shou-zhong (Translator), Li Jian-yong (Translator)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0936185414 | ISBN-13: 978-0936185415 | Publication Date: January 1, 1993 | Edition: 1st

This is a translation and annotation of Li Dong-yuan's Pi Wei Lun; by Bob Flaws. With so much new research in China on the ideas and formulas of Li Dong-yuan, we feel this book is one of the most important pre-modern texts in Chinese medicine for 21st century clinicians. Bob has undertaken the task of a fresh translation of this book, this time including detailed commentary, relevant case histories and random clinical trail reports for each chapter.

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Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Chinese

About the Author

Yang Shou-zhong was born in Tangshan, Hebei into a family of Confucian scholars. He was raised and educated by his uncle who tutored him in the Chinese classics, including medicine, from 1950-1960. From 1960-64, Yang studied English at the Tangshan Teachers' College from which he graduated with a B.A. degree. From 1966-68, Yang studied Chinese medicine and acupuncture-moxibustion with Dr. Xu Shou-wen, a pupil of Shi Jin-mo, a very famous modern TCM scholar. During the Cultural Revolution, Yang, like so many other Chinese, was "sent down to the countryside to learn from the Chinese people." While there, he practiced Chinese medicine and gained a reputation as being a very effective healer. At the same time, from 1972-79, he was principal of a middle school and a tutor in a special training course for "barefoot doctors."

After the Cultural Revolution, from 1979-81, Yang studied English postgraduate at the Beijing Languages Institute, and, in 1981, he got a job as an English teacher at the North China Coal Mines Medical College. This allowed him to continue his personal medical studies from 1982-84 in the Rehabilitation Research Center of the Teaching Hospital of the North China coal Mines Medical College. Yang has continued teaching English at this college to this day where he is also A) editor of the North China Cola Mines Medical College Journal of Medicine, B) director of the Qigong Research Center, and C) instructor of foreign students in Chinese medicine and acupuncture.

In terms of publications, Yang has published scores of poems, literary criticisms, essays, and papers on Chinese literature and history in various Chinese newspapers, magazines, and academic journals. In addition, he has also published dozens of papers on the English language in Chinese and is the author of two books on English grammar published in China. Yang is also the senior translator and Chinese coordinator of Blue Poppy Press's Great Masters Series. This is a collection of premodern Chinese medical books selected for their continued importance within Chinese medicine. Yang is the translator of the following Great Masters books: Fu Qing-zhu's Fu Qing Zhu Nu Ke (Fu Qing-zhu's Gynecology); Li Dong-yuan's Pi Wei Lun (Treatise on the Spleen & Stomach); Hua Tuo's Zhong Zang Jing (Classic of the Central Viscera); Zhu Zhen-heng's Dan Xi Zhi Fa Xin Yao (The Heart & Essence of Dan-xi's Methods of Treatment) and Ge Zhi Yu Lun (Extra Treatises Based on Investigation & Inquiry); Huang-fu Mi's Huang Ti Zhen Jiu Jia Yi Jing (The Yellow Emperor's Acupuncture & Moxibustion Systematic Classic); Yang Ji-zhou's Shen Ying Jing (The Divinely Responding Classic); Tao Hong-jing's Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing (The Divine Farmers Materia Medica Classic); Liu Yi-ren's Yi Xue Zhuan Xin Lu (The Heart Transmission of Medicine); and Wang Bing's Mai Jing (The Pulse Classic).

Yang Shou-zhong is married and has two children, a son and a daughter.

Product Details

• Paperback: 246 pages
• Publisher: Blue Poppy Pr; 1st edition (January 1, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0936185414
• ISBN-13: 978-0936185415
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #293,240 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars proceed with caution before ordering this. there are several editions about!, November 19, 2011

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Kulotta Mav (oakland, ca) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Treatise on the Spleen and Stomach: A Translation of the Pi Wei Lun (Paperback)

there are multiple versions of this book out, and all share the same isbn. a 1993 first edition pb can have 190 pages or 246 pages. the 2004 second edition (shown in the pictures, even though the listing details are for the 1993 1st edition) has 300+ pages with new material and updates.

I ordered this book, thinking I was getting the 2004 second edition pictured, with bob flaws annotations. what I received was neither the 246 page 1st edition book listed nor the second edition book pictured, but rather the very first edition of 190 pages.

take the time to write to your seller first and be certain of which version you are getting!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very interesting book, October 8, 2010

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This review is from: The Treatise on the Spleen and Stomach: A Translation of the Pi Wei Lun (Paperback)

In this book discussed mechanisms of illness arizing, principals of curing them and clinical examples. Quite a lot of interesting passages, like "Liver can not be healthy if man has a lot of unfulfilled desires". Very impressive clinical examples, like 10 years of diabet type 2 was cured fast. Not everything is clear, as assumed that readers know well inernal structure and connections inside human body. Propably it is as well translation issue. Anyway, it is one of the best books availible on market.