Acupuncture

1979 · réf. DEMO011317I — Miami: Occidental Institute of Chinese Studies 1979. Special Limited edition. Hardcover. Very Good. charts. Quarto 225 187 105 pages in a black D-ring binder. Worldcat has only 1 listing for this and it is only part one and is a photocopy. Rare. Edited & translated by Dr. Albert Chamfrault and Ung Kan Sam; also by Dr. Nguyen Van Nghi and Mike C. Barnett. Illustrated with charts. This edition was done "for the two hundred and thirty-four persons named within and the future of traditional 'energetical' acupuncture in North America." Also known as Huangdi nei jing or Huang di nei jing. or Huangdi Neijing: whichever way it has been the most fundamental text for Chinese medicine for two thousand years. Chamfrault was an acupuncture practitioner in France. Nguyen Van Nghi was a Vietnamese-French doctor. A major part of his life was translating the Nei Ching from a Tang Dynasty manuscript" "What has been said to distinguish his particular version of the Huangdi Neijing from those available in China was that it included commentary by two Tang Dynasty physicians without which he claimed made the texts indecipherable. He was insistent that Western medicine and Chinese Medicine were not separate scientific pursuits but that there was One Medicine - Wikipedia." Occidental Institute of Chinese Studies hardcover