Venerating The Root: A Translation of Sun Simiao's Volume on Pediatrics in the Bei Ji Qian Jin Yao Fang, Part One - Softcover

Wilms, Sabine; Sun, Simiao

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0991342909 ISBN 13: 9780991342907

Publisher: Happy Goat Productions, 2013

Synopsis

Essential Prescriptions Worth a Thousand in Gold for Every Emergency - Volume 5: Pediatrics, Part 1. "Venerating the Root" fills a great part of this significant gap in our education: it presents a comprehensive overview of neonatal and pediatric classical physiology, neonatal care including cord care, grooming and breastfeeding, and diseases that are proper to children.

About this title

About the Author

After high school and undergraduate studies in East Asian Studies in Germany, I spent two years in Taiwan studying modern and classical Chinese. I then moved to the US for my graduate studies and have lived there most of the time since, teaching, writing, and farming. I am currently teaching courses on Chinese History and Culture, Classical Chinese, Classical Medical Texts (especially the Yellow Emperor's Classic), Gynecology, and occasional electives, at the National College of Natural Medicine, in the School of Classical Chinese Medicine in Portland, Oregon, and writing, translating, and publishing my own books on Chinese medicine.

I have been studying classical Chinese writings on medicine ever since my PhD research in Asian Studies and Medical Anthropology. While my academic background has given me a solid foundation in early Chinese philosophy, science, and cosmology, and therefore in a historically and culturally sensitive approach to classical Chinese medicine, I also enjoy an ethnomedical approach to Chinese medicine as a living, clinically effective, and ever-changing response to any given cultural environment.

Some of my favorite topics for research and teaching are

• gynecology, pediatrics, and reproduction
• yangsheng 養生 ("nurturing life") as understood in the broadest sense by the great medieval "King of Medicinals" Sun Simiao 孫思邈, including dietetics, lifestyle, regulating the emotions, moral cultivation, etc.
• medical ethics
• the modern clinical application of the wisdom from the classics, especially Zhuangzi.

In my academic life, I am happiest when engaging in a dialogue with practitioners on how to make this ancient wisdom come to life. In my other lives, I find bliss in holding newborn goats, racing horses in Mongolia, digging in the dirt and hugging a tree, making Sauerkraut or kimchi with my daughter, or playing cumbias on the accordion. It's all about harmonizing Heaven, Earth, and Humanity in the old yangsheng way for me. 

From the Back Cover

"I am thrilled to have this work made accessible for the first time. It is a pleasure to read. This is not for a beginner in paediatrics, but is an absolute must for anyone who takes paediatrics seriously." (Julian Scott, author of "Acupuncture in the Treatment of Children" and "Natural Medicine for Children")

"Sun Simiao's 'pearls' of pediatrics will be of value to anyone practicing Chinese medicine who is interested in working with children. This book gives me great solace in the holistic work I am doing with children and shows me that the path I have taken over these many years venerates the root of a long and noble tradition. (Stephen Cowan, MD, author of "Fire Child - Water Child")

Edition details

• Publisher: Happy Goat Productions
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0991342909
• ISBN 13: 9780991342907
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 366