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Title: The Web That Has No Weaver : Understanding Chinese Medicine by Ted J. Kaptchuk ISBN: 0-8092-2840-8 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Pub. Date: 11 April, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.8 (10 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: More Technical than you may want, but an eye-opening classic
Comment: This text is often refered to as the classic introduction to Chinese Medicine Theory. Because I am not a practitioner of Chinese medicine--or of Biomedicine--I cannot comment on its accuracy of portraying its subject matter. (I have heard that various texts abound with differing interpretations.)
I can say that the book is known as a classic, and it is HIGHLY DETAILED. It illustrates very well how Chinese Medicine is completely different from the view of health we are used to in "The West". For example, instead of diagnosing someone with cancer, or arrhythmia, or bronchitis, a diagnosis sounds something like dampness affecting the Spleen, Deficitent Kidney Yang, Congealed Blood, etc... (These are not respective equivalents for the western diagnoses cancer, et al.)
And Blood, Kidney, Spleen, Spirit, and a host of other terms that look familiar to our eyes take on larger meanings than we are used to.
What I liked best was the chapters on Meridians and on Organs, showing the organization of energy and systems of the human body.
Other later chapters got extremely detailed. While this was more than I wanted, it was fine, I just skimmed them without trying to memorize or really remember too much. Just get a basic sense of how there is a completely different approach to health and illness, which showed me that different possibilities and viewpoints always exist. I definitely enjoyed the book despite being more technical than I wanted. It opened my eyes.
(I am a massage therapist with just a pinch of training in "5 Element Theory" and Shiatsu, which is accupressure.)
Rating: 5
Summary: AMAZING, COMPLETE, THOUGHT-PROVOKING
Comment: I found this book to be the most complete resource on Traditional Chinese Medicine. It goes through the introduction and goes to quite deep details of the basics, the diagnoses, and more. I found this book to be the best so far at explaining pulse diagnosis on a level understandable to a beginner.
This book can be read on many, many levels. It is meant to be read several times over the course of one's studies of TCM, each time getting a bit more than the last time.
Some advice to beginners like myself: If while reading this book you get stuck and feel uninterested and repelled by some part of the chapter, just skip it and move on. Don't get discouraged no matter what. You may just not be ready for that part yet. Skip it and move on to the next part. You can always come back and read it.
I found that the language of this book is very easy and flowing, there is no difficult jargon at all. It is very smooth and easy to follow.
An amazing book, I would recommend it to everyone interested in TCM!!
Rating: 4
Summary: Eye-opening Primer on TCM and Taoist philosophy
Comment: Lent to me by an acupuncture and herbal doctor, I originally read "The Web" without any prior background and found it extremely enlightening. Thousands of years of Chinese philosophy and medicine explained by a Western doctor helps to bridge the chasm between the two approaches to medical care.
In the end, expect to be frustrated that Western medicine largely ignores what is proven to work, or steals the ideas and repackages them as "new".
The irony of the title is that Taoist philosophy acknowledges the intricate web of life, but ignores the Creator (the weaver). This is because, unlike western medicine and philosophy, Taoists do not constantly ask "why?", but instead focus solely on mapping what is. Understanding this fundamental difference may be key to understanding the Chinese mind and how to deal with their government and people.
This book gives one a sense of how much we could learn from the Chinese, and what Americans miss by ignoring a medical practice thousands of years old.
Over the course of two years since first reading, my mind repeatedly returns to lessons learned from this book.
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Title: Between Heaven and Earth by Efrem Korn, Harriet Beinfield ISBN: 0345379748 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 30 June, 1992 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Chinese Acupuncture and Moxibustion (Revised Edition) by Cheng Xinnong, Cheng Kinnong ISBN: 7119017586 Publisher: Foreign Language Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $59.95 |
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Title: The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Medicine : A New Translation of the Neijing Suwen with Commentary by Maoshing Ni ISBN: 1570620806 Publisher: Shambhala Pub. Date: 10 May, 1995 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Fundamentals of Chinese Medicine: Zhong Yi Xue Ji Chu by Nigel Wisemann, Nigel Wisemann, Zhong Yi Xue Ji Chu, Andy Ellis ISBN: 0912111445 Publisher: Paradigm Pubns Pub. Date: September, 1995 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Foundations of Chinese Medicine: A Comprehensive Text for Acupuncturists and Herbalists by Giovanni Maciocia ISBN: 0443039801 Publisher: Churchill Livingstone Pub. Date: July, 1989 List Price(USD): $146.75 |
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