Medieval Chinese Medicine : The Dunhuang Medical Manuscripts (Hardcover)

1. The Dunhuang Collections and International Collaboration  2. Introduction  Part 1: The Manuscripts  3. Manuscripts as Sources in the History of Chinese Medicine  4. A General Survey of Medical Works contained in the Dunhuang Medical Manuscripts  5. Comments on the Problem of 'Transcription'  6. Han Bamboo and Wooden Medical Records discovered in Military Sites from the North Western Frontier Regions  Part 2: Divination, Iatromancy and Related Arts  7. Mantic Texts in their Cultural Context  8. Dunhuang Iatromantic Manuscripts: P.2856 V°and P.2675 R°  9. Love Charms among the Dunhuang Manuscripts  10. From Prognosis to Diagnosis of Illness in Tang China  Part 3: Self-Cultivation and the Popular Medical Traditions  11. Introductory Essay  12. Quick and Easy Chinese Medicine: The Dunhuang Moxibustion Charts  13. Art of the Bedchamber  14. Daoism and the Dunhuang Regimen Texts  Part 4: Pharmacology  15. The Dunhuang Manuscripts and Pharmacology in Mediaeval China  16. The Three juan Edition of Bencao Jizhu and Excavated Sources  17. Canonical Methods for Brews and Decoctions: A Lost Text Recorded in the Hanshu Bibliography  18. Wind Malady as Madness in Mediaeval China  19. A Treatment for Cardiovascular Dysfunction in a Dunhuang Medical Manuscript  Appendix 1: Materia Medica Abstracts of 73 manuscripts containing medical information held in the British Library and the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, Institute for Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg and Ryukoku University Library