Venerating the Root 2

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Translated By Sun Simiao & Sabine Wilms
Trade paperback book
ISBN 9780991342938
568 pages, 6.00 x 9.00″

This book is a literal translation of the second half of Volume 5 from the Bei Ji Qian Jin Yao Fang 備急千金要方 on pediatrics, composed by Sun Simiao 孫思邈 in the seventh century. It includes the following features:

  • 26 pages of introductory matter and 544 pages of main text.
  • A critical edition of the Chinese text with the literal English translation on opposing pages.
  • Five main sections on “Cold Damage,” “Cough,” “Aggregations, Binds, Distention, and Fullness,” “Welling Abscesses, Flat Abscesses, and Scrofula,” and “Miscellaneous Diseases of Small Children.”
  • Extensive translator’s notes that explain individual terms, medical concepts, alternative readings of passages, translation issues, etc.
  • Clinical commentary by Dr. Julian Scott.
  • Interspersed throughout the translation and commenting on each major formula in the text is commentary on the Qian Jin Fang composed in 1698 by the famous physician Zhang Lu 張璐.
  • Forewords by two experienced pediatricians: Dr. Stephen Cowan and Assaf Mor, and a short Preface by Sabine Wilms.
  • A general index and indexes for single herbs and formulas, indications, acupuncture and moxibustion, and proper names.

Additional information

Weight 1.8 lbs
Dimensions 8 × 6 × 1 in

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