Overview
The translation team included experienced clinicans, teachers and translators: Bob Damone, Michael Helme, Lynn Kuchinski, and Craig Mitchell. Ten Lectures on the Use of Formulas, like Professor Jiao’s earlier work, Ten Lectures on the Use of Medicinals, is read by virtually every student of Chinese medicine in China. Professor Jiao is not only a nationally recognized master but also a teacher and author whose works are considered essential for the aspiring Chinese physician. Jiao Shu-De’s theories and extensive knowledge of Chinese medicinals find full expression in these lectures on formulas. He moves beyond theory and provides us with the most practical and obtainable information for use in everyday clinical situations. Those who apply Jiao’s knowledge to their own clinical cases will find the results to be outstanding. Jiao’s work is an essential guide for answering the questions and solving the problems that clinicians face in everyday practice.
Professor Jiao has compiled over 200 commonly used traditional formulas and has further added several dozen formulas from his own experience. This information is set out as ten lectures, which follow this outline: Lecture 1 covers issues that one must pay attention to in clinically applying formulas. Lecture 2 discusses formulas that treat the qi, rectify the blood, and supplement and nurture. Lecture 3 discusses dispersing formulas, harmonizing formulas, and formulas that simultaneously treat the exterior and interior. Lecture 4 discusses wind-expelling formulas, cold-expelling formulas, and damp-expelling formulas. While Lecture 5 is about formulas that clear fire, disperse summerheat, and moisten dryness, Lecture 6 discusses phlegm-eliminating formulas, abductive-dispersing formulas, and offensive-precipitation formulas. Lecture 7 discusses ejecting formulas, astringing and securing formulas, and insect-killing formulas; Lecture 8 discusses heavy-settling formulas, toxin-resolving formulas, and cancer-preventing formulas; and Lecture 9 discusses commonly used gynecological and pediatric formulas. Lecture 10 introduces a few of Jiao’s own empirical formulas.
As you read this book you may feel as though clouds of misunderstanding have been cleared from your mind. The cogency of the information and the clarity with which it is presented make it a remarkable resource for student, clinician, and instructor alike.
Author Information
Jiao Shu De
Author: Case Studies in Pattern Identifcation, Ten Lectures on the Use of Formulas from the Personal Experience of Jiao Shu De, Ten Lectures on the Use of Medicinals from the Personal Experience of Jiao Shu De.
Jiao Shu De, a “National Treasure of the People’s Republic,” was born in Heibei Province in northeastern China in 1922. From childhood he studied medicine with his maternal grandfather. His studies were rooted in the Chinese medical classics and supported by study with the most famous physicians of his time: Pu Fu-Zhou, Huang Zhu-Zhai, Yang Shu-Qian and Qin Bo-Wei. He taught and practiced at the Beijing Chinese Medical College for 27 years and from 1984 at the China-Japan Friendship Hospital. He is the author of the three texts we offer at Paradigm Publications but also numerous articles, the arrangement of medical knowledge for the “Barefoot Doctors,” and the recipient of many, many awards for his contribution to Chinese medicine.
Nigel Wiseman
Translator: Ten Lecutres on the Use of Formulas from the Personal Experience of Jiao Shu De
Author: Chinese Grammar for Life, Chinese Medical Characters Volume 1 to 5, Chinese Medicine Grammar and Vocabulary, Concise Chinese Materia Medica, Fundamentals of Chinese Acupuncture, Fundamentals of Chinese Medicine, Grasping the Wind, Introduction of English Terminology of Chinese Medicine, Jin Gui Yao Lue, A Practical Dictionary of Chinese Medicine,.
Nigel Wiseman received his bachelors degree in simultaneous German and Spanish interpretation and translation from Harriot Watt University in 1976, and his PhD in Complementary Medicine from the University of Exeter in 2000. He resides in Taiwan where he is a faculty member at Chang Gung University. He is an editorial board member of the Journal of Chinse Medicine (ROC), The China Medical College Journal (ROC), and Clinical Acupuncture and Moxibustion Journal (UK). He serves on the terminological standards committees of the People’s Republic of China and the World Health Organization.
Sabine Wilms
Translator: Ten Lecutres on the Use of Formulas from the Personal Experience of Jiao Shu De, The Jīn Guì Yào Lǜe (“Essential Prescriptions of the Golden Cabinet”
After undergraduate training in her native Germany, Sabine Wilms spent two years in Taiwan, studying modern and classical Chinese language. She then moved to the US for her graduate studies and has mostly lived there since. Sabine has been studying classical Chinese writings on medicine beginning with her PhD education in Asian Studies and medical Anthropology. With a strong academic background in early Chinese philosophy, science, cosmology, and language and therefore in a historically and culturally sensitive approach to Chinese medicine, she now enjoys studying and teaching it as a living, effective, ever-changing, and much needed response to the issues of our modern times. Some of her favorite topics are gynecology and reproduction, pediatrics, medical ethics, self-cultivation, and “nurturing life.” Besides teaching at the School of Classical Chinese Medicine at the National College of Natural Medicine in Portland, Oregon, and creating books on Chinese medicine through her publishing company, Happy Goat Productions, she is raising a daughter and some dogs, chickens, goats, fruits, and vegetables.
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