The Medical I Ching: Oracle of the Healer Within
The Medical I Ching: Oracle of the Healer Within Books
Product Description
This book is a unique version of the timeless Chinese classic of philosophy and metaphysics written especially with the health care practitioner in mind. It includes diagnostic and prognostic suggestion for each of the 8 trigrams, 64 hexagrams, and all changing lines. Dr. Shima also includes extensive instructions on using all types of casting methods and the pros and cons of each, interpretation of readings, and an entire chapter of case histories.
Buy Cheap The Medical I Ching: Oracle of the Healer Within Online
Related posts:
I have heard about this book through my bioenergetic circle and as we are working with iching a lot, looked forward to read it, bought it to be more informed about medical side of it.
For me it turned out to be very confusing in technics, and dreadful depressive in explanation. After having tried to read it for 2 hours I have thrown it away as soon as I reached the wastebin. Not that I easily throw books away, normally I admit that the book can be not for me for the moment, though there was something really negative in it, I did not even want to show it to anyone to get someone elses attitude. Hope there will be more positive books on medical iching.
Rating: 1 / 5
It is right, and it completes spiritually and practically each one caught up in the I Ching system.
Rating: 5 / 5
Interpretations of the I Ching have been used for many a purpose, and medicine is a very fascinating and to some extent evident application. The author is convincing that he knows his topic, but, I suspect he isn’t revealing his depth of knowledge in this book. As a licensed practitioner of Chinese Medicine, I found the book to be right in Chinese terms, but far too limited and superficial. The language of Chinese Medicine is used here, and will be trying for a layperson to know unless they have done a honest bit of reading on the theme prior. The translation of Chinese Medical conditions into Western terms invariably proves inaccurate. The book is fantastic thought from someone who I’m certain understands the topic, but in some way it doesn’t really succeed.
Rating: 3 / 5
I bought this book, hoping it would be of the caliber of Richard Wilhelm’s book… you know, something a link inches thick with caught up commentary. If anyone knows a medical I-Ching book like that, then please let me know. So the book is highly dissapointing. I wish he would come out with a practitioner’s evolved version. Then even if it cost a link hundred dollars, it would be worth it. Only the very top level of Dr. Shima’s knowledge is expressed here. The profound levels are left unexplored.
Rating: 2 / 5
Even as I agree with the previous reviewer that this book is gonna be hard to use by someone who knows small or nothing about Chinese medicine, as a professional practitioner of Chinese medicine, I and my many patients have found this book invaluable for helping to clarify otherwise hazy situations. The I Ching needs to be interpreted no matter what use it is place to. So you have to contemplate the hexagrams and tender lines from several points of view: trigrams, yin and yang lines, map of the body, image, and commentary. For me, this book provides a new and different starting place to reckon about my patients’ problems. It is not a simple cook book for “looking up” precise medical diagnoses and what to do for them. Personally, I don’t reckon the previous reviewer has really hung out with this book or the I Ching in general. I would certainly urge it to anyone interested in learning how to interpret the I Ching from a medical top of view.
Rating: 5 / 5