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Notes


1. Yang Jizhou (1522-1620AD) is the author of the Great Compendium of Acupuncture and Moxibustion (Zhenjiu Dacheng), first published in 1601. The Four Flowers are discussed in Volume 9 of this work.


2. Zhang Jiebin, also known as Zhang Jingyue (1563- 1640AD) is the author of the Illustrated Supplement to the Categorized Classic, first published in 1624. The Four Flowers are discussed in Volume 8 of this work. Zhang Jiebin is better known as the author of the Categorized Classic (Leijing) and Jingyue’s Complete Writings (Jingyue Quanshu).


3. Secret Necessities of a Frontier Official (Waitai Miyao) by Wang Tao (670-755AD, Tang).


The location of Zhang Jiebin’s Four Flowers and Six Points (illustration from the Divinely Responding Classic16


)


4. Cui Zhiti is known as the author of Moxibustion Formulas for Steaming Bones Disease (Guzheng Bing Jiufang).


5. Classic of Nourishing Life with Acupuncture and Moxibustion (Zhenjiu Zisheng Jing) by Wang Zhizhong (dates unknown, Song Dynasty).


6. Gao Wu (16th c., Ming Dynasty)


is the author of Gatherings from Eminent Acupuncturists (Zhenjiu Juying), published in 1537AD.


7. Li Yan (16th


Lorraine Wilcox has been a licensed acupuncturist in California since 1989. She is currently a student at American University of Complementary Medicine in Los Angeles and is writing her Ph.D. dissertation on the use of moxibustion during the Ming Dynasty. She would like to thank Dr. Chen Yongping for her help.


c., Ming) is the


author of Entering the Gate of Medicine (Yixue Rumen), published in 1575 A.D.


8. Zhang’ s wr i t ings on moxibust ion are qui te thorough, and in the opinion of the current author, deserve more attention than they have received.


9. The name Huanmen (Suffering Gate) seems to have come from Li Yan’s Entering the Gate of Medicine. Wang Tao never gave these points a name. However, he discussed them in the same section as the rest of the Four Flowers.


10. The interaction of fire and water could be compared to a pot of water boiling on a stove. If the fire were on top, however, and the water below they would flow away from each other and there would be no interaction or circulation.


11. A yin line is broken and has two components whereas a yang line is unbroken and has one component.


12. In other words, yin lines are in yin positions and yang lines are in yang positions. The 1st 3rd


, and 5th are yang. The 2nd


(bottom) positions , 4th


and 6th (top) positions are yin.


13. Chen Yanzhi is the author of Short Sketches of Formulas (Xiaopin Fang). This book was lost, although large portions of it were quoted in later works, especially in the Japanese medical classic Medical Heart Formulas (Yixin Fang, or Ishimpo, in Japanese). Thus we still have access to much of Chen’s writings.


14. Yellow Emperor’s Inner Canon


15. Since Zhang located the points differently, he identified the points as Ganshu BL-18 and the two points on the spine located by the string method.


16. Shenying Jing written by Chen Hui and revised by Liu Jin, published in 1425 (Ming dynasty).


Li Y., (1999). Entering the Gate of Medicine. Tianjin: Tianjin Science and Technology Publishing House.


Wang, T., (1955). Secret Necessities of a Frontier Official. Beijing: People’s Health Publishing House.


Zhang, J.Y., annotated by Wang, Y.S. et.al. (1966). Illustrated Supplement to the Categorised Cl a s s i c and Appended Supplement of the Categorised Classic with Annotations. Xian: Shanxi Science and Technology Publ ishing House.


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