Reflections on Studying Huang Di Nei Jing in the West.
- Resource Type
- Academic Journal
- Authors
- Neal E; Apricot Grove Educational Services, Portland 97213, the United States of America.; Xinglin Institute for Early East Asian Medicine, Portland 97213, the United States of America.
- Source
- Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 9918645966306676 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 2589-9473 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 25899627 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Chin Med Cult Subsets: PubMed not MEDLINE
- Subject
- Language
- English
Huang Di Nei Jing (《》 The Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic ) has been the source text of Chinese medicine knowledge and innovation for over two thousand years. Despite this key relevance, many of its ideas and practices have proven difficult to understand and implement fully into clinical practice. Cultural and language differences can be compounded with these challenges but may also present new opportunities for advancement and insight when studied by researchers outside of the originating culture. This article introduces the method of Classical-Text Archaeology and delves into the author's two-decade journey of researching this text, with a discussion on cultural differences and issues of medical scholarship.
Competing Interests: The author declares no financial or other conflicts of interest.
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