Friday, April 22, 2011

My sources for this blog

Sources for this blog will be mainly from my reading and translation of a few books on traditional Chinese medicine.  They are books by Zhonglibaren (中里巴人): "Asking your doctor is not as good as asking yourself (求医不如求己)" and Zhao Zhengshan's (赵正山) "Assays from the healing chamber (疗斋随笔)", "Records and thoughts from the healing chamber (疗斋誌忆)", "Talks about food from the healing chamber ((疗斋食略)".  My intention is to share information.  I do not assume any responsibility for the results or consequences you have following the methods described in this blog.  There will be no diagrams or pictures in the blog, and I recommend a book from which you can find the necessary information to locate acupuncture points mentioned in the blogs.  The book is "Chinese acupuncture and moxibustion (revised edition)", Cheng Xinnong , Chief editor, foreign languages press, Beijing, 1987, ISBN 7-119-01758-6.  In addition to a complete description of the acupuncture points based on the channel and meridian theory of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), this book also has a brief introduction to TCM theories.