Venerating the Root, Part 1 – by Sun Simiao, translation by Sabine Wilms

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Venerating the Root, Part 1 – Sun Simiao, translated by Sabine Wilms

ISBN: 9780991342976

Published: 2017

This book is a literal translation of the first half of Volume 5 from the Bei Ji Qian Jin Yao Fang 備急千金要方 on pediatrics, composed by Sun Simiao 孫思邈 in the seventh century. It includes the following features:

• 40 pages of introductory matter and 323 pages of main text.
• A critical edition of the Chinese text with the literal English translation on opposing pages.
• Four main sections on “Preface,” “Emergence of the Newborn from the Abdomen,” “Fright Seizures,” and “Intrusive Upset.” Here is a link to the Table of Contents.
• For an excerpt from the Preface, click here.
• Extensive translator’s notes that explain individual terms, medical concepts, alternative readings of passages, translation issues, etc.
• Clinical commentary by Dr. Brenda Hood. For a sample from the section on Fright Seizures, click here
• Interspersed throughout the translation and commenting on each major formula in the text, a full translation of the section on pediatrics from the Qian Jin Fang Yan Yi 千金方衍義, a commentary on the Qian Jin Fang composed in 1698 by the famous physician Zhang Lu 張璐. See here for a translation of Sun Simiao’s entry on “Longdan Tang” followed by Zhang Lu’s commentary.
• Forewords by Peter Firebrace and Genevieve LeGoff, including a poem by Peter Firebrace that summarizes the content.
• A Preface by Sabine Wilms
• A general index and indexes for single herbs and formulas, indications, acupuncture and moxibustion, and proper names.