Medical I Ching.pdf

Dedicated to

Grand Master Sango Kobayashi, Ph.D;

My wife Diana,

All my children, Laura, Jeremy, and Kenny,

Who have aU loved and helped me so much

Acknowledgments

Most of the material in this book is based on workshops on the I Ching and

related subjects that I have taught over the past ten years. Thanks, therefore,

are due the many students who attended these workshops and whose

questions helped me clarify this material all the more. I am also greatly

honored to have Dr. Sango Kobayashi as my personal mentor in the I Ching

and lowe him a great deal for his generous instruction.

I would also like to thank Dr. Jay Sordean who helped me very much for many

years as program director of the Japanese-American Acupuncture Foundation

OAAF), Inc. All my friends from the California Acupuncture Association also

assisted me greatly in keeping my spirit up during the process of writing this

book.

Finally, I am very grateful for the considerate encouragement and intelligent

advice I received from Bob Raws and Honora Lee WoUe in preparing this book

for

publication. Without their

friendly support, this

book could not have

manifested the way it is.

Notes on This Edition

Except tor the title of the I Ching, Chinese words used in this edition have first

been given in pinyin romanization foUowed in parentheses by the Wade-Giles

system. Hopefully, this will make this book more easily usable to practitioners

of Traditional Chinese Medicine who are familiar with pinyin romanization and

/ Chmg readers and users who are typically more familiar with the Wade-Giles

system. We have chosen to simply use the Wade-Giles I Ching in the title of

this book since that is its most recognizable form to the majority of this book's

potential readers.

Although this book may be used by practitioners of any and all healing arts,

since it stems from the Chinese tradition, much of the medical terminology is

couched in the language of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Readers unfamiliar

with the basic theories and tenets of Chinese medicine should see Ted

Kaptchuk's The Web ThaI Hils No Weaver published by Congdon & W~ed.

Foreword

The I Ching is the essence of Chinese philosophy. Conceived some 6,lXXl years

ago by Fu Xi, a legendary sage, it is the magnum opus of Oriental metaphysics.

Without the

principles of yin

and yang of the I Ching, one cannot even

envisage Oriental philosophy.

Besides being the preeminent book of Chinese philosophy and wisdom, it is

also a book of divination based on a superb system of binary representations

of patterns in the universe completed by King Wen of the Zhou Dynasty.

Accepted as the most reliable method of prognostication, the I Ching has been

used by tens of thousands of people in the Orient as an oracular method

regarding every conceivable subject in human life. Now, it has been

transplanted in the West and has begun producing some significant results.

The author of the present work. Dr. Miki Shima, has not only studied the I

Ching in depth but has also practiced it profoundly for the past 25 years. The

thing that so impresses me about Dr. Shima is that he has been tirelessly

casting the I Chi'lg every day and that he has gathered an immense amount of

practical knowledge on the art of divination from his direct experience. I know

a great many people who study the I Ching, but I have never met anyone who

practices this divination like Dr. Shima. This is what makes him different from

traditional I Chitlg scholars. I know for a fact that he has kept very good

records of his divination and that he studies them over and over again for long

periods of time. The present work is, therefore, derived not only from his

academic endeavor on the subject of the I Chi,lg but also directly from his

personal knowledge and experience.

Since Dr. Shima began his career as a practitioner of Oriental medicine more

than 20 years ago, he has become a master oj using the I Dung in the medical

field. He is extremely good at diagnosing and detecting deep etiologies. He is

"'''e ME'dicall Ch{l/b Or<lck of thl."Ht'akr Wnhm

also superb with prognostication and treatment protocols. Thus, he has become

a great physscian by using the information obtained from hiS practice of the'

Ching

f firmly believe that the present volume is the first of this kind in the West and

will further the understanding of this ancient book of wisdom. I have no

hesitation in recommending Dr. Shima's work on the I Ching 10 anyone

interested in practicing medicine whether it be Western or Oriental.

Sango Kobayashi, Ph.D.

President

Tokyo 1Ching College

Kanto College of Oriental Medicine

May, ]992

Tokyo, Japan

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