• THE SECRET TREATISE OF
  THE SPIRITUAL ORCHID
• ESSENCE SPIRIT
  BLOOD AND QI
• THE WAY OF HEAVEN
• THE SEVEN EMOTIONS
• THE LUNG
• THE LIVER
• THE HEART
• THE KIDNEYS
• HEART MASTER
  TRIPLE HEATER
• SPLEEN AND STOMACH
• THE EXTRAORDINARY FU
• THE EIGHT EXTRAORDINARY
  MERIDIANS
• A STUDY OF QI
• YIN YANG
• THE ESSENTIAL WOMAN
• PREGNANCY AND GESTATION
• WU XING

The Liver

This book begins with the presentation of the liver and gall bladder in the first part of the Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic, Neijing Suwen chapter 8 and continues by looking at the five phase resonances of wood and liver as set out in Suwen chapters 2, 4, 5, and 9.

The second part of the book discusses the physiology and functions of the liver, its relationships with qi and blood, with emotions, with digestion and assimilation, with the muscular forces (jin) and with jue yin. All of these explorations are well rooted in textual references and explanations of Chinese characters.

The causes of disease in the liver are then examined, followed by a section on the liver's functions and related symptomatology. There is a short section on the gall bladder, and finally a discussion of the syndromes of the liver and gallbladder.

An appendix brings together key texts from the Neijing and one of the major commentaries, and gives a brief summary of principal causes of disease, symptoms and syndromes. An index contains all the Chinese terms found in the book along with the main concepts

Excerpt from The Liver:

Elisabeth Rochat: The liver is a manifestation of strength and the great, visible impulse of life. In the natural world or in the universe this is the power of spring and of wood. ...It is the capacity for movement, decision, courage and firmness which characterises the liver, and which is summed up in the sentence from Suwen chapter 8 which states that it is the general of the armed forces. But a general must not let himself be carried away... It has the possibility of analysing and discerning, and of assessing situations and acting in accordance with them. This facility is found in all the functions of the liver: in storing the blood, in the defence of the body, and its actions on the muscles.

ISBN 1 872468 07 1      pp 159         210 x 145 mm