From the Book - [Rev. ed., newly expanded and updated].
Foreword / Margaret Caudill
The Pinyin Phonetic Alphabet
1. Medicine East and West: Two Ways of Seeing, Two Ways of Thinking; and the landscape patterns of nature and humans
2. The Fundamental Textures: Qi, Blood, Essence, Spirit, and Fluids; or the basic ingredients of human life
3. The Organs of the Body: The Harmonious Landscape; and on anatomy and its absence
4. The Meridians: The Warp and Woof; and on acupuncture and herbology
5. Origins of Disharmony: Stormy Weather; or when a cause is not a cause
6. The Four Examinations: Signs and Symptoms; and Aristotle and Lao Tzu revisited
7. The Eight Principal Patterns: The Faces of Yin and Yang; the patterns' basic texture and composition
8. The Patterns of the Human Landscape; the details of the clinical scene
9. Chinese Medicine as an Art; or on the Penetrating Divine Illumination
10. The Web That Has No Weaver
and Mount Sinai; or on the location of truth
App. A. The Stages of Disease: A Series of Clinical Scenes
App. B. Yang Organs in Disharmony
App. D. The Curious Organs
App. E. The Scientific Encounter with East Asian Medicine: Efficacy and Adverse Effects
App. F. The Five Phases (Wu Xing)
App. G. Historical Bibliography: Links in the Chain of Transmission.
