• 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

Spleen and Stomach

This book begins with the Chinese concept of the centre and the characters for the stomach and spleen. It discusses their functions as storehouses and granaries, explores their five phase resonances, and looks at earth as the source of all stability through change. The interdependent relationship between spleen and stomach is examined, along with the pre-eminence of the stomach amongst the fu.

The book contains a detailed study of the spleen and stomach from the Neijing, covering the spleen's relationship with the kidneys, and the relationships with yang ming (bright yang), chong mai (the penetrating vessel), zong jin (ancestral muscle) and xu li (great luo of the stomach).

A substantial appendix summarizes the functions of spleen and stomach, and selected quotations from the Neijing are given. The pathology is presented in brief with principle causes of disease.

Excerpt from the Spleen and Stomach:

Elisabeth Rochat: As one of the five elements or phases, earth is like the soil, a place where men sow and afterwards harvest. If we have a look at old Chinese texts and classical Chinese commentaries. ...The properties of earth are to receive seeds and afterwards to give harvests. Again we find this two-fold movement of receiving and giving which is exactly the description of the earth element in all commentaries

ISBN 1 872468 03 9      pp 141         210 x 145 mm