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This book is a completely new, revised, and expanded edition of this work. It now includes many more important and useful statements of fact, Chinese characters for every statement as well as Pinyin Romanization for every statement. This new edition also includes Bob Flaws's commentary explaining the clinical meaning of each statement. At last, what every TCM student has been looking for, a linguistically accurate, succinct list of the key statements of fact in TCM which, as a style of Chinese medicine, is largely a word game. However, to be effective at playing the game, one needs to know the words. Hopefully, this book will help Western students gain both clarity and proficiency in the process and practice of doing TCM.
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I understand what Bob Flaws was shooting for with this book. Chinese medicine is built upon short statements that have withstood the test of time, although they come from many sources throughout the long history of traditional Chinese medicine. However it is only a little booklet full of these statements.
If I had my druthers, I would take each one of these "statements of fact" such as "Liver stores the blood" and add a clinical application such as "because the Liver stores the blood, it is implicated in menstrual irregularities or any condition that is coincidental with the menstrual cycle." Something like that.
By Al L. Stone
Statements of fact are phrases that help students and practitioners of Chinese medicine remember principles of their art. Often written originally in verse, these statements help keep us from straying too far from the root of our medicine and help organize our thinking about health and disease. Such statements are one reason that some Chinese practitioners are able to think their way out of wierd situations. They can constantly go back to first principles, then extrapolate in a creative way how to apply those to situations outside of usual textbook descriptions. We practitioners in the West should also endeavor to keep these principles at hand.
This book is a means to do just that. This new edition is a little larger than the previous edition, and it provides the original Chinese statements along with the English translation. Really interested folks can then make stabs at looking up the meanings of the original and can not only see what the translators had to go through, but can also absorb bits of the multiplicity of meanings in what seems at first to be simple statements. I've been in practice for several years and I still like to carry this around with me to keep the central ideas fresh and cement my understanding of first principles. If you practice or study Chinese medicine, you should own this book.
By H. Asbury