Descrizione
Contents
Preface by Carlo Di Stanislao
Introduction by franco cracolici
PART I / DAOIST MEDICINE by Franco cracolici
1 / Brief outline of Daoist thought and culture
2 / Daoist medicine: origins, history and meaning
- The ways of meeting and the process of knowledge
- Daoist religious and philosophical-alchemical schools and currents
- The earliest therapeutic applications. The Daoist approach
- Daoist practices
- Techniques to achieve immortality
- The culture of prevention
- True knowledge… in Daoist culture
- Numbers
- Celestial Journeys
- The conduct of the Daoist doctor
- The great Daoist doctors and alchemists
3 / The meridians: energy pathways, tracer points, pathological knots
- Acupuncture points
- Knots
- Changes
- Act with respect
- Shen
- The cycle of vegetative souls
- The qi and its manifestations
- Shen treatment
- The five wills
- Treatment of the five wills
- The thirteen Sun Simiao gui points
- Protocol and treatment
- The ling points
- Protocol and treatment
- The nine flowers of Ge Hong
- The dao points
- Protocol and treatment
- Tian xing xue points, ‘eleven heavenly stars’
- Protocol and treatment
- GV-23 shangxing, Upper Star point
- The tian points, ‘Heaven’
- Protocol and treatment
- The spreading of Heaven: the Emperor’s canopy
- Acupuncture and wai dan, ‘external alchemy’
- Path with acupuncture
- Inner alchemy
- Abuse and suffering: violence kills the soul
- The ren mai or Conception Vessel
- Proposed therapy with ren mai points for cases of abuse
- Protocol and treatment
- The Extraordinary Meridians
- Extraordinary Meridians and Daoism
- Centre, centres
- The emptiness of xu / wu / kong
- The void in various suffixes
- Void rebalancing treatment
- Emotional turmoil and the path of the diaphragm
- Stomach-diaphragm treatment
- The biochemical pathway of emotions
- The transition points or gates
- The Pericardium, the Heart’s shield
- Functions of the Pericardium
- Protocol and treatment
- The eight applications and the six Heart guards, according to Liezi
- Harmonising treatment
- From light to light: from the eyes to the brain
- Light treatment
- The Earth… the earths
- Another Earth. ST-4 dicang
- The wise land. SP-4 gongsun
- Jing-well points
- Doors and gates: passages and transits
- Epilogue
PART II / THE ART OF LISTENING. FEELING, THINKING AND IMAGINING MUSIC by Franco Pianigiani
- Introduction
4 /In the beginning was the word
- The meaning of music
- The relationship between word and sound
- Union of Heaven and Earth
- Music as a model of the world
- Music and magic
- The sorcerer
- The birth of symbols
- Waters in darkness
- The phases of creation
- The meaning of wings
- The soul of the world
- Sacrificial sound
- The pillar
- Black feathers and the eagle
5 / The elements of music
- Rhythm
- The meaning of the voice
- The individual sound
- The sound substance
- The word
- Gregorian chant and human voice
- Music and metaphysics: harmony of the spheres
- Joy and praise: the essence of hymns
6 / Primordial sound
- Nada Brahma
- Everything is sound
- Language universality and music therapy
- The musician
- Physical properties of sound
- What is sound
- Sound and noise
- How sound propagates
- Speed of sound
- The pendulum
- The pendulum and musical instruments
- Sound pitch
- Sound intensity
- Sound duration
- Timbre
- Forms and structures in harmony
- Melody and harmony
- Musical notation
- Time signature
- Brain perception
- Cerebral hemispheres
- Brain waves
- The perception of sound
7 / Sound, mind and perception
- Cognitivism, dualism and neuropsychology
- Gestalt and perceptive psychology
- The handling of expectations
- Neural codes and activations
- The function of memory
- Categories and concepts
Part III / MICRO-SYSTEMS by Massimo Rinaldi
- Introduction 405
8 / Abdominal-umbilical palpation
- The bagua
- A new interpretation model
- The navel in Western medicine
- The symbolism of the navel
- Gate of the spirit, gate of life
- Pre-Heaven, xian tian bagua
- Post-Heaven, hou tian bagua
- Releasing the navel
- Energy embryology
- Abdominal semiotics, the origin of abdominal diagnosis
- Releasing the abdomen according to the five movements
9 / ECIWO acupuncture Micro-Systems
- Umbilical acupuncture
- Second metacarpal bone acupuncture
- Conclusions
Part IV / FROM COMMUNICATION TO HEALING by Franco Cracolici, Alessandra Franco, Valeria Selvi
- Introduction
10 / Electric current, electromagnetic radiation and sound
11 / The language of cells
- From the language of cells mediated by electromagnetic radiation to bioresonance
- From the language of cells mediated by sound to cymatics
- From ancient medical art to regenerative medicine
References
Index of points
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