Humming with Elephants: The Great Treatise on the Resonant Manifestations of Yin and Yang

Description

This book, a translation of the fifth chapter in the Yellow Emperor’s Inner Classic, Plain Questions (Huang Di Nei Jing, Su Wen 黃帝內經，素問) offers a rare glimpse into a radically different way of interacting with the world from the perspective of ancient Chinese medicine, philosophy, and cosmology through a conversation between the mythological Yellow Emperor and his medical advisor that was recorded about two thousand years ago.

Dr. Wilms combines her elegant literal translations with a wide selection of medical commentaries and quotations from philosophical and cosmological texts, as well as her personal insights, based on three decades of sinological scholarship and many years of teaching Chinese medicine students.

“Humming with Elephants is a much-needed book in Chinese Medicine. Sabine Wilms is the best translator of ancient texts that I know. Her clarity, sincerity and understanding of ancient Chinese texts is unparalleled. Her thoughtful and comprehensive explanations leave space in the readers’ minds, allowing them to absorb the philosophy behind the words”. – Lillian Pearl Bridges (Author of Face Reading in Chinese Medicine)

362 pages