Shang Han Lun Preface

Keep These Videos Free! These videos are currently free due to a 2010 grant from Mars Charitable Trust Foundation. If you have found this information useful, please help keep these and upcoming videos free on our site by making a donation to ATS. Without your financial support, this material will become for purchase only in 2013. It doesn’t matter how much or little of a donation you make, as every bit from our community adds up. And ATS can provide you with all the information you need to make a large donation tax deductible – just contact us!

The most important clinical book in Chinese Medicine is the Shang Han Lun, and the most important part of the book is the Preface!

Overlooked by readers and often omitted by publishers, the preface contains the keys to understanding the rest of the Shang Han Lun. In this fascinating discussion, Andrew Nugent-Head awakens the hidden meanings line by line, explaining references Zhang Zhongjing makes that are often missed by Chinese and western scholars alike.

“This is how I learned the classics here in China: in a teacher’s home, the ancient books coming alive and the passions of ancient authors filling the room as if they were speaking their words to you. Zhang Zhongjing’s Preface is the most exciting and important part of his Shang Han Lun. Understanding what he is really saying is the key to understanding his entire book. In this lecture, I share the Preface just as my teacher, Dr. Li Hongxiang, shared it with me.

This lecture was only possible through Dr. Li Hongxiang’s teaching, and a special acknowledgement and thanks must be given to him.

Are you a practitioner of Chinese Medicine?  This lecture is approved for 5 hours of distance learning credit. Click here to learn more!

Would you prefer to watch this lecture on DVD?  Purchase it as a DVD from our store.

Shang Han Lun Free Online Video

Shang Han Lun Video 1

Shang Han Lun Video 2