This book is a must read for any practitioner of medicine and their patients. The Special Edition includes the Physician Edition plus all translated quotes and stories in their original Chinese at the end of the book as an appendix.
Cover and spine are tight and unmarked. Pages have scattered pencil marks and underlining throughout, otherwise pages are in great shape with firm edges.
After studying with Master Liu Baigu, grand grandson of the Qing dynasty scholar physician Liu Yuan, Seidman and Jaensch filtered the complete compendium of Huai Xuan philosophy. Over 4000 pages of classical Chinese text were researched, the pure essence distilled and translated, and presented here in this book. From finding his lost tomb in the fields of Shuang Liu county, to the remembrance of Liu's life work, the Lost Heart of Medicine has been formed and found.