The Roots of Accordance

The Roots of Accordance is designed as an introduction for non-native speakers to the principles of political and ecological holism that structure the medical philosophy of the Huangdi Neijing, the canonical source text for Traditional Chinese Medicine. Presented in three independent yet mutually supportive chapters, author and clinician Justin Penoyer provides a concise, clinically focused examination viewed through the lens of process philosophy, natural science, and systems biology....
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The Roots of Accordance is designed as an introduction for non-native speakers to the principles of political and ecological holism that structure the medical philosophy of the Huangdi Neijing, the canonical source text for Traditional Chinese Medicine. Presented in three independent yet mutually supportive chapters, author and clinician Justin Penoyer provides a concise, clinically focused examination viewed through the lens of process philosophy, natural science, and systems biology. Readers begin with the Neijing's secular roots in the philosophical enlightenment that occurred during the late Warring States Period of early China, and then are led systematically through the sets of correspondences that govern the practice of acupuncture and Chinese medicine. The morphological affiliations between individual, society, and ecology contained within the Neijing narrate a sophisticated understanding of human health and the factors contributing to disease. The Roots of Accordance references over fifty chapters from the Lingshu and Suwen to present Chinese medicine as a system of relational science whose adherence to orderliness and natural law make it well-suited to confront the challenges of modern clinical care.