• 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 Seven Emotions

This book presents a close study of the energetics of the emotions. Looking at classical texts each of the seven emotions of Chinese medicine is discussed in detail. The etymology of the characters is examined, pathological and non-pathological manifestations of each emotion are described, and relationships with the various zangfu are explained.

With this book the clarity of classical Chinese thinking about psychology and emotion is revealed. It shows how each sensation and display of feeling involves subtle movements of the zangfu, blood and qi, and has far reaching effects on our health and well-being.

An index of Chinese characters and main concepts is included for easy reference.

An appendix gives the Chinese text and a translation. There is also an index of all main concept and Chinese characters.

Excerpt from The Seven Emotions:

Claude Larre: The heart is the root of the seven emotions. The seven make a unit of psychological life. When we have seven we are at the level of the jingshen, at the level of the life essences when they are flaring up, as the expression of the spirits. This is a way to understand how these emotions are linked with the basis of life which is represented by essences. And the highest point where life brightly expresses itself is the spirits.

[The Seven Emotions] offers a rare insight into the Chinese classics not normally available to those of us who do not read Chinese.
European Journal of Oriental Medicine

ISBN 1 872468 08 X      pp 190         210 x 145 mm