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The Medical I Ching: Oracle of the Healer Within | 
 enlarge | Author: Miki Shima
Publisher: Blue Poppy Pr
Category: Book
List Price: $21.95
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 314292
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 244
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 7.6 x 0.6
ISBN: 0936185384
Dewey Decimal Number: 299.51282
EAN: 9780936185385
ASIN: 0936185384
Publication Date: October 1992
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Condition: Brand New. Delivery confirmation included. Blue line on bottom edge of pages.
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Product Description
This book is a special version of the timeless Chinese classic of philosophy and metaphysics written especially with the health care practitioner in mind. It includes diagnostic and prognostic indication for each of the 8 trigrams, 64 hexagrams, and all changing lines. Dr. Shima also includes extensive instructions on using all types of casting methods and the pros and cons of each, interpretation of readings, and an entire chapter of case histories.
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 Profound Depth in Disguise November 10, 2007
B. Campbell (Encino, CA United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I purchased this book, hoping it would be of the caliber of Richard Wilhelm's book... you know, something a couple inches thick with involved commentary. If anyone knows a medical I-Ching book like that, then please let me know. So the book is highly dissapointing. I wish he would come out with a practitioner's evolved version. Then even if it cost a couple hundred dollars, it would be worth it. Only the very top level of Dr. Shima's knowledge is expressed here. The profound levels are left unexplored.
 It Is Worth Having, Reading, Practising August 4, 2007
Cristiana Flechtenmacher (Chicago, Il. USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
It is accurate, and it completes spiritually and practically each one involved in the I Ching system.
The Medical I Ching: Oracle of the Healer Within July 10, 2003
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
While I agree with the previous reviewer that this book is gonna be hard to use by someone who knows little or nothing about Chinese medicine, as a professional practitioner of Chinese medicine, I and my many patients have found this book invaluable for helping to clarify otherwise hazy situations. The I Ching needs to be interpreted no matter what use it is put to. So you have to contemplate the hexagrams and moving lines from several points of view: trigrams, yin and yang lines, map of the body, image, and commentary. For me, this book provides a new and different starting place to think about my patients' problems. It is not a simple cook book for "looking up" precise medical diagnoses and what to do for them. Personally, I don't think the previous reviewer has really hung out with this book or the I Ching in general. I would certainly recommend it to anyone interested in learning how to interpret the I Ching from a medical point of view.
 A great idea--too superficial September 23, 2001
Heidi M. Hawkins (Bellingham, WA: City of Subdued Excitement)
8 out of 12 found this review helpful
Interpretations of the I Ching have been used for many a purpose, and medicine is a very interesting and somewhat obvious application. The author is convincing that he knows his topic, however, I suspect he isn't revealing his depth of knowledge in this book. As a licensed practitioner of Chinese Medicine, I found the book to be accurate in Chinese terms, but far too limited and superficial. The language of Chinese Medicine is used here, and will be difficult for a layperson to understand unless they have done a fair bit of reading on the subject prior. The translation of Chinese Medical conditions into Western terms invariably proves inaccurate. The book is great idea from someone who I'm certain understands the topic, but somehow it doesn't really succeed.
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