Paul Unschuld and Hermann Tessenow's is an annotated critical translation of the Huangdi Neijing Suwen, the foundational text of Chinese medical theory, working directly from the classical Chinese text and its historical commentary tradition rather than from a modern clinical restatement of its ideas. That direct textual and philological method, tracing organ and meridian theory back to this specific ancient source, is the translation's real evidentiary basis. This record has not independently traced a documented history of scholarly disagreement with Unschuld and Tessenow's specific readings. Use it for the content of classical Chinese medical theory as this foundational text states it; it is not a source for how Traditional Chinese Medicine is practiced clinically today, which needs a separate modern source.
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Paul Unschuld and Hermann Tessenow's annotated critical translation of the Huangdi Neijing Suwen, the foundational text of Chinese medical theory, working directly from the classical Chinese text and its historical commentary tradition. NotesPaul Unschuld and Hermann Tessenow's annotated scholarly translation of the Huangdi Neijing Suwen, the foundational classical text of Chinese medicine, covering the theory of organs, meridians and the body's relationship to the solar calendar. Use for the content of classical Chinese medical theory such as the organs and meridians as this text presents it; a critical scholarly translation of a primary text, not a modern clinical or ethnographic account of Traditional Chinese Medicine as practiced today.
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AuthorPaul U. Unschuld and Hermann Tessenow
PublisherUniversity of California Press
Publication Year2011
Source TypeCritical translation with scholarly introduction
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This source backs 177 claims across the atlas. As facts: 119 well-attested. As cited relationships: 1 holds. Plus 57 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Meridians, 83 claims: 63 well-attested, 20 general references.
- Organs, 58 claims: 46 well-attested, 12 general references.
- Solar Terms, 24 claims: 24 general references.
- Sources, 8 claims: 7 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Categories, 4 claims: 3 well-attested, 1 general references.
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