Master Hua's Classic
of the Central Viscera
By Hua Tuo, trans. by Yang Shou-zhong. 215 pg., 6" x 8 3/4"
paperback.The government of the People's Republic of China has recently
classified Master Hua's Classic of the Central Viscera as one of the 11
most important premodern books in the history & study of TCM, ranking
it with the likes of the Nei Jing, Nan Jing, & Shang Hun Lun. It is
the locus classicus of the theory of warm supplementation. This is the first
English language translation of this great Chinese medical classic which
bears the name of the most famous Chinese doctor of antiquity, Hua Tuo. |