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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> In releasing the bundages overcoming of troubles the preservation of one’s natural state the dredging of the breath the rising of the great multitude to benevolence and long life the guiding of the feeble and weak to attain tranquility they can only be accomplished by using the methods of the three sages. The preface to (Book of History) (Shang Shu) by Kong An Guo said that the writings of Fu Xi Shen Nong and the Yellow Emperor were called the “Three Mounds” and they were discussing the great way. In the treatise on the (Canons and Literature of History. Han Dynastry) Ban Gu listed the Yellow Emperor’s Canon of Internal Medicine in 18 rolls of which the “Plain Questions” (Su Wen) is 9 rolls and the “Spiritual Pivort” (Ling Shu) is 9 rolls they made up the number of 18 rolls of the canon. Although the years have changed and the age is different. yet the words have been held together and have been taught as a subject of study so that this book is still preserved. It was feared that the the wrong person might get the information so at times some parts of it were hidden. And thus the seventh roll was hidden by Master Shi and the book “Plain Questions” we have now has only 8 rolls. Be it as it may yet its style is concise its ideas are vast its principles are recondite and its purpose is profound. With the help of it. The phenomena of heaven and earth are distin quished the state of Yin and Yang are set forth the causes of change are exhibited and the symptoms of death or survival of the nation (MP)