From the Book - [Rev. ed., newly expanded and updated].
Foreword : [the western response to acupuncture and other East Asian medicine] / Margaret Caudill --
Foreword : [The Web That Has No Weaver as an introduction to the theory of Chinese medicince] / Andrew Weil --
The pinyin phonetic alphabet --
1. Medicine East and West : two ways of seeing, two ways of thinking, and the landscape patterns of nature and humans --
2. The fundamental textures : Qi, blood, essence, spirit, and fluids, or the basic ingredients of human life --
3. The organs of the body : the harmonious landscape, and on anatomy and its absence --
4. The meridians : the warp and woof, and on acupuncture and herbology --
5. Origins of disharmony : stormy weather, or when a cause is not a cause --
6. The four examinations : signs and symptoms, and Aristotle and Lao Tzu revisited --
7. The eight principal patterns : the faces of yin and yang, the patterns' basic texture and composition --
8. The patterns of the human landscape, the details of the clinical scene --
9. Chinese medicine as an art, or on the penetrating divine illumination --
10. The web that has no weaver : and Mount Sinai, or on the location of truth --
App. A. The stages of disease : a series of clinical scenes --
App. B. Yang organs in disharmony --
App. C. Pulses revisited --
App. D. The curious organs --
App. E. The scientific encounter with East Asian medicine : efficacy and adverse effects --
App. F. The five phases (wu xing) / written in collaboration with Dan Bensky and the assistance of Kiiko Matsumoto --
App. G. Historical bibliography : links in the chain of transmission.