Book recommendations

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Dear Group,

 

A while ago, I inquired what people would recommend as an additional herbal

text, and someone mentioned a book that was not out yet, something about

" Ten lectures on herbal medicine. " Does anyone know if the book is available

yet?

 

Julie

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dragon90405 <yulong

 

Wednesday, March 20, 2002 3:13 PM

Re: Reality Is A Shared Hallucination

 

 

> Jim,

> >

> > I'm don't think that you can be " too Whorfian " in this field.

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> Well, we didn't make the kinds of changes

> that this person wanted to see to bring

> the book more into alignment with her

> view of linguistic orthodoxy. So I guess

> I agree with you, although I'm not very

> well versed in Whorf's work in fact.

>

> Have

> > you read Shigehisa Kuriyama's book, The Expressiveness of the Body

> > and the Divergence of Greek and (Zone Books,

> 1999)?

> > Its a brilliant description of how CM and WM developed their

> > respective lines of thought when they started with similar

> > circumstances. That would be the place to start. The book received

> > the Oriental Medicine Joural Award for Excellence in 2000. Below is

> > a quote from it that I use in my pulse diagnosis seminars.

>

> It's on my Get To list. Maybe I can

> find time over the next few months

> while I'll be doing a fair bit of

> traveling.

>

> Looking over the quote you posted, I'd

> say it is pretty convincing evidence

> of the need to understand the context

> of any particular system of medicine's

> origins.

>

> Ken

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> Chinese Herbal Medicine, a voluntary organization of licensed healthcare

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in Chinese Herbal Medicine, provides a variety of professional services,

including board approved online continuing education.

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