Huang Di Nei Jing Ling Shu: The Ancient Classic on Needle Therapy

✍ Scribed by Paul U. Unschuld

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 798
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The Ling Shu, also known as the Ling Shu Jing, is part of a unique and seminal trilogy of ancient Chinese medicine, together with the Su Wen and Nan Jing. It constitutes the foundation of a two-thousand-year healing tradition that remains active to this day. Its therapeutic approach is based on a purely secular science of nature, with natural laws serving as guidelines for human behavior and medical treatment. No other text offers such broad insights into the thinking and manifest action of the authors of the time. Following an introduction, this volume contains the full original Chinese text of the Ling Shu, an English translation of all eighty-one chapters, and notes on difficult-to-grasp passages and possible changes in the text over time on the basis of Chinese primary and secondary literature of the past two thousand years and translator Paul Unschuld’s own work. The Ling Shu reveals itself as a completely rational work, and, in many of its statements, a surprisingly modern one. It will provide the foundation for comparisons with the nearly contemporaneous Corpus Hippocraticum of ancient Europe and today’s iterations of traditional Chinese Medicine as well.

✦ Table of Contents

CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
ANNOTATED TRANSLATION OF LING SHU 1 THROUGH 81
Chapter 1. The Nine Needles and the Twelve Origin [Openings]
Chapter 2. To Consider the Transportation [Openings] as the Foundation
Chapter 3. Explanatory Remarks on the Small Needles
Chapter 4. The Physical Appearances of Diseases resulting from the Presence of Evil qi in the Long-term Depots and Short-term Repositories
Chapter 5. Root and Connection
Chapter 6. Longevity, Early Death, Hardness and Softness
Chapter 7. The Official Needles
Chapter 8. To Consider the Spirit as the Foundation
Chapter 9. End and Beginning
Chapter 10. The Conduit Vessels
Chapter 11. The Conduits and their Diverging [Vessels]
Chapter 12. The Conduit/Stream Waters
Chapter 13. The Conduits and their Sinews
Chapter 14. The Measurements of the Bones
Chapter 15. The 50-fold Circulation
Chapter 16. The Camp Qi
Chapter 17. The Measurements of the Vessels
Chapter 18. Camp [Qi] and Guard [Qi] – Generation and Meeting
Chapter 19. The Four Seasonal Qi
Chapter 20. The Five Evils
Chapter 21. Cold and Heat Disease
Chapter 22. Peak-illness and Madness
Chapter 23. Heat Diseases
Chapter 24. The Receding [Qi] Diseases
Chapter 25. The Diseases and their Roots
Chapter 26. Various Diseases
Chapter 27. Circulation Blockage-illness
Chapter 28. Oral Inquiry
Chapter 29. The Transmissions from the Teachers
Chapter 30. Differentiation of the Qi
Chapter 31. Intestines and Stomach
Chapter 32. A Healthy Person Ends the Ingestion of Grain
Chapter 33. On the Seas
Chapter 34. The Five Disturbances
Chapter 35. On Swelling
Cheater 36. The Separation of the Five //Protuberance-Illnesses// Jin and Ye Liquids
Chapter 37. The Five Observation Points and the Five Emissaries
Chapter 38. Movements Contrary to and in Accordance with the Norms, Being Well Nourished and Being Malnourished
Chapter 39. The Blood Network [Vessels]
Chapter 40. Yin and Yang [Qi], Clear and Turbid [Qi]
Chapter 41. The Ties between Yin and Yang [Qi] and Sun and Moon
Chapter 42. The Transmission of Diseases
Chapter 43. Excess Evils release Dreams
Chapter 44. The Qi Moving in Accordance with the Norms Divide a Day into Four Time Periods
Chapter 45. The Assessment from Outside
Chapter 46. The Five Modifications
Chapter 47. To Consider the Long-term Depots as Foundations
Chapter 48. Prohibition and Appropriation
Chapter 49. The Five Complexions
Chapter 50. On Courage
Chapter 51. The Transport [Openings] on the Back
Chapter 52. The Guard Qi
Chapter 53. On Pain
Chapter 54. Years Given by Heaven
Chapter 55. Movement Contrary to and in Accordance with the Norms
Chapter 56. The Five Flavors
Chapter 57. Water Swelling
Chapter 58. The Robber Wind
Chapter 59. When the Guard Qi Lose their Regularity
Chapter 60. The Jade-Tablets
Chapter 61. The Five Prohibitions
Chapter 62. Transports
Chapter 63. On Flavors
Chapter 64. The Yin and Yang [Categorization] and the 25 Human [Types]
Chapter 65. Five Tones, Five Substances
Chapter 66. The Generation of the Hundreds of Diseases
Chapter 67. The Application of the Needles
Chapter 68. Upper Barrier
Chapter 69. Grief, Rage, and Speechlessness
Chapter 70. Cold and Heat Sensations
Chapter 71. Evil Visitors
Chapter 72. To Penetrate Heaven
Chapter 73. Function and Competence
Chapter 74. Discussing Illness; Examining the Foot-long Section
Chapter 75. Piercing to Regulate True and Evil [Qi]
Chapter 76. The Movements of the Guard Qi
Chapter 77. The Nine Mansions, the Eight Winds
Chapter 78. On the Nine Needles
Chapter 79. The Dew of the Year
Chapter 80. On Massive Confusion
Chapter 81. Obstruction- and Impediment-Illnesses
GLOSSARY of Illness Terms