![]() Let the battle begin!Īdopting a new metaphysical world view i.e. This way can be useful to look at a formula: how to see the functions of Guì Zhī Tāng (Cinnamon Twig Decoction) when evil invades the body. Classics are the foundation of the Chinese medicine and the Huáng Dì Nèi Jīng used the knowledge from Sun Tzu‟s The Art of War, and even cited from it. The Art of War is one of the classics from Chinese ancient times. For more than two thousand years, Sun Tzu‟s The Art of War, has provided military leaders with essential advice on battlefield tactics, managing troops and terrain. Those wars were based on highly skilled military strategy and tactics. China‟s history is overshadowed by ages of wars. One way is to see it from the battlefield. The mechanism of the formula can be seen from different perspectives. This paper will be focussing on the main property of harmonizing nutritive and protective Qi, when evil enters the body. Guì Zhī Tāng (Cinnamon Twig Decoction) is not a formula to fit into a paper, because of its wide range of uses. This book sums up the author's research outcome of the last few years in an area of study on culture, philosophy and Chinese medicine which has been too often misunderstood or insufficiently emphasized. This book has three independent but progressive parts, each bearing the title of one of the three courses taught by the author as a visiting professor at the Faculty of Philosophy, Vienna University, in the 2010-2011 winter semester, namely: Overview of Chinese Culture through Chinese Characters, Fundamental Concepts of Classical Chinese Philosophy and The Importance of Metaphors in Chinese Medicine, which are in the fields of philosophy of language, philosophy of science, and intercultural philosophy, aiming to reveal the essence of philosophy of Chinese language, classical Chinese philosophy and Chinese medicine within the context of a global, multicultural background. This book lays a solid foundation for understanding, developing and modernizing Chinese medicine in the right way.Ĭhinese medicine is a culturally dependent art of healing deeply rooted in the culture and philosophy of the country it originated from: China. Metaphor, the Dao or Way of constructing and developing Chinese medicine, is the weaver of Chinese medicine. Its procedure "Observing Object - Taking Image - Analogizing - Understanding Dao" runs through almost all the aspects of Chinese medicine from forming its fundamental concepts, elaborating its theories, developing its clinical explorations, guiding clinical practice, to developing Chinese medicine, and finally forming metaphors in Chinese medicine. Qu Xiang Bi Lei or metaphorizing is the core methodology of Chinese medicine. Since Qu Xiang Bi Lei results in the formation of metaphors, so it is the metaphorizing process and the way of forming metaphors. How is the theoretical system of Chinese medicine formed, stated and constructed? How are the human being, health, and disease understood in Chinese medicine? How is the herbal theory constructed? How has Chinese medicine been developed? How should Chinese medicine be modernized? The answer to all these questions is Qu Xiang Bi Lei 取象比类, or Taking Image and Analogizing.
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