"Back to the Origin: Dialogues on Classical Chinese Medicine Enlightenment" Author: Li Xin / [France] Claudine Meher Publisher: Beijing United Publishing Company

Introduction · · · · · ·
A dialogue between ancient traditional Chinese medicine concepts and modern thinking;

Return to the origin of Chinese medicine and the classics before the Tang and Song dynasties.

From "Huangdi Neijing" and "Treatise on Febrile Diseases" to "Shennong's Herbal Classic" and "Compendium of Materia Medica", explore the essence and key points of traditional Chinese medicine and learn to see the whole person.

This book is written by a Chinese and a Frenchman, communicating in simple English.

This is a dialogue between the ancient traditional Chinese medicine concept and the modern way of thinking. The content always revolves around the essence of Chinese medicine and strives to simplify the complex. Modern Chinese medicine clinics pay too much attention to the disharmonious disease patterns and focus on trying to correct these disharmonious phenomena. However, traditional Chinese medicine practitioners are not just obsessed with the disharmony of the "local", they pay more attention to the whole, because the "local" reveals the "whole", and they grasp the "whole" intuitively.

Only by thoroughly studying ancient classics can we apply the basic principles of traditional Chinese medicine to practice, and not get confused when learning the complicated and seemingly contradictory theories of later generations. In this way, we can formulate appropriate and effective prescriptions based on the rising and falling smells of the medicines according to the patient's constitution, mental constitution, and the reaction of the struggle between the evil and the righteous, rather than mechanically using medicines based on the general functions of the prescriptions in the textbooks.

For a doctor who has gained some understanding, everything is just the beginning.

About the Author
Li Xin

A Chinese medicine practitioner, Master of Psychosomatic Medicine. He studied under Mr. Song Zuomin, a famous national-level traditional Chinese medicine practitioner. He uses acupuncture and medicine together, treats both mind and body, and is based on classics, learns from the strengths of various doctors in history, and applies them to clinical practice. He has written "Classic Chinese Medicine Enlightenment", "Children's Health Lectures", "Mental Health Lectures", etc.

Claudine Meher

Chinese name: Mei Yun. She has practiced medicine in various countries and regions in Europe, the Middle East and Southeast Asia, and lived in China for four years. She is currently a Chinese medicine practitioner, acupuncturist, naturopath and general practitioner at the Columbia Preventive Medicine Center in Switzerland.