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| CHINESE MEDICINE: ITS ROOT AND FLOWERS A Sinology Course for Physicians and Amateurs |
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| Written for physicians and therapists, this text provides a fascinating account of medical thought and a useful introduction to Chinese culture for the general reader. Its numerous quotations directly translated from the original Chinese sources - including unpublished texts - and its accurate references to western works, make it a powerful tool for researchers. The humanistic and anthropological cut, the plain explanation of subjects normally neglected (cosmogony, cosmology, cronobiology, biotipology etc.) characterize this book as unique in the realm of works about Chinese medicine. |
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 In China, rational medical theory had developed for more than twenty centuries, that is since the 2nd century B.C. until well into our 20th century, nearly unaffected by exterior influence. The result of such prolongued undisturbed maturation is a system of methodological consistency and therapeutic effectivenes unparelleled anywhere else by human endeavour. Naturally, "methodological consistency" and "therapeutic effectiveness" in order to become manifest in practice and accessible to experience, require the vehicle of consistent linguistic expression, in other words, the expression through adequate concepts and coherent presentation. This is where Giulia Boschi's La Radice e i Fiori comes in. Her book is a major effort compounded of sesitivity towords the subject, painstaking and persevering work in the elucidation of original sources and lucid presentation of her findings. It is a most timely undertaking at a historical moment when each of these requirements are made slight of, obscured, lost sight of in pratically all countries of our globe, including, to start with, in China proper. (...) Preface of Manfred Porkert, |
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| Giulia Boschi (gb@giuliaboschi.com), besides her acting activity, has been studying Oriental culture for several years. She is Doctor cum laude in Oriental Languages at Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, Italy. After her qualification in Acupuncture and Chinese Massage she specialized in the field of Chinese medicine, Qigong and taoist studies. She has been teaching Medical Sinology at Advanced Institute for Holistic Medicine and Ecology, Urbino University, Italy, since 1992. She has already published several articles on specialized magazines, and an excerpt of her final dissertation titled: P.R.C.’s enquiry on the physical nature of Qi: abstracts of significant experiments about the voluntary emission of bioradiant energy, from the foundation of Popular Republic to the eighties". She translated (from Chinese) Li Xiaoming’s Practical Method of Self-training with Traditional Chinese Qigong, the first complete course in Chinese Qigong Inner Alchemy published in Italy. Chinese Medicine: Its Root and Flowers; a Sinology Course for Physicians and Amateurs is the textbook for Urbino’s course in Medical Sinology. |
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The treatment might be divided into three main subjects:
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| Author: Giulia Boschi Preface by: Preface of Manfred Porkert, Professor extraordinary emeritus of Sinolgy Including the Theoretical Foundations of Chinese Medicine at Universitat Munchen, Germany. Title: Chinese Medicine: Its Root and Flowers Casa Editrice Ambrosiana |