The great intent
Subtitle: acupuncture odes, songs, and rhymes
By: Richard Bertschinger ; illustrated by Harriet E.J. Lewars
Contributors: Yang, Jizhou, active 1573-1619; Yang, Jizhou, active 1573-1619
Publisher: Singing Dragon
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780857011114
Subjects: Acupuncture Therapy; History; History, 17th Century; Chinese Traditional Medicine; Poetry as Topic
Notes: Preceded by (work): The golden needle : and other odes of traditional acupuncture : book two of Yang Jizhou's grand compendium (1601) / translated by Richard Bertschinger. 1991.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The odes, songs and rhymes; title: Ode to the whole body's points and channels; title: Ode to the one hundred symptoms; title: A song on the rule of the hundred points; title: A song on how the six qi create disease; title: The song 'four all-encompassing points'; title: The song 'nine needles which revive the yang'; title: Ode to the streamer out of the dark; title: Ode to the magnanimity of the mat; title: Ode to the golden needle; title: A song on how the cycling five of heaven control disease; title: A rhyming guide to essential indications when needling; title: Ode to the jade dragon; title: Old teacher mulberry's rhyme 'secrets of the stars'; title: Ma danyang's song on the twelve points; title: Shining bright as the starry sky and able to heal all the many diseases; title: Ode to the importance of penetrating the dark mystery; title: Ode to the magic brightness; title: Ode to holding back the river; title: Ode to intricacies in the circulating flow; title: The song 'tricks to keep up your sleeve'; title: The secret rhyme on needling 'barriers within'; title: Tonifying and reduction swept clear as snow; title: The song 'general pointers when needling'; title: The song 'opening the door to needling law'.