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Although in the United States the scientific value of acupuncture is only now being clinically evaluated for the first time, needling is only one of a number of therapeutic disciplines which have proved effective in China for over two thousand years and which today provide common remedies for more than one quarter of the world's population. Why, asks Dr. Porkert, shouldn't medical men everywhere have access to the premises and results of this medical knowledge? In this book he presents a coherent and systematic account of Chinese theories – the system of correspondence that underlies all of Chinese medicine – using a new and precise Latin terminology with English equivalents provided for most terms) that he devised over the past decade. The book is based directly and exclusively on Chinese sources, including recent Chinese secondary literature. Chapter 1 introduces the concepts that are the foundation of the system of correspondences – the polar combination yin-yang which phenomena into complementary groups, and wu-hsing, which Dr. Porkert calls the “five Evolutive Phases,” and which are used to resolve cyclic processes into five temporally and qualitatively distinct parts. In Chap

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Author

Manfred Porkert

Publisher

The MIT Press

Published

1974

Language

EN

ISBN

9780262160582

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Medical, Medicine

Updated

2026-03-24