This commentary approaches the roughly two-thousand-year-old Nanjing through a base edition and around thirty editions, presenting original text, Japanese kundoku readings, modern translations, and three perspectives: philology, clinical interpretation and theory. Begin with the free introduction and three complete samples.
Explore all eighty-one DifficultiesAn introduction to reading the cunkou pulse, eight extraordinary vessels, sanjiao, mingmen, original qi, the five transport points (jing-well, ying-spring, shu-stream, jing-river and he-sea), and supplementation and draining through eighty-one questions and answers.
Go to the map of eighty-one DifficultiesA complete sample examining the rationale for assessing the whole body at the cunkou, with the base text, other editions and three interpretive perspectives.
Read this Difficulty →A complete sample connecting the four seasonal pulse qualities—wiry, hooked, hair-like and stone-like—with stomach qi and prognostic judgment.
Read this Difficulty →A complete sample examining the principle of supplementing the mother in deficiency and draining the child in excess.
Read this Difficulty →The base edition is explicitly identified, with original text, Japanese kundoku readings and modern translations displayed separately. Established text is distinguished from working notes.
Cards organize each commentator’s readings, variant texts and differences of interpretation so readers can trace the evidence.
The formation of the text, its clinical meaning and its theoretical structure are examined separately, preserving the contours of the Nanjing itself.
Green borders indicate complete free samples. The other Difficulties are planned for the subscription edition.