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SOURCES & METHOD

TRADITION IS NOT THE SAME THING AS A CLINICAL TRIAL. BOTH CAN BE READ HONESTLY.

The Manual draws from classical medical traditions, historical scholarship, modern physiology, contemporary clinical research, and published studies of traditional therapies. These sources answer different kinds of questions and should not be treated as though they provide the same kind of evidence.

How Evidence Is Used

Traditional Sources

When the book describes what Ayurveda, Chinese medicine, or Greek medicine traditionally taught, the relevant classical texts and historical scholarship establish that tradition.

Modern Studies

When a modern physiological, biochemical, behavioral, or clinical claim is made, contemporary research is used where available.

Bridge Therapies

Traditional therapies are first evaluated for coherence with the system from which they come. Modern studies are included when they meaningfully test the therapy, mechanism, or outcome. The absence of modern research is not presented as proof that a traditional practice is ineffective; it is presented as an unanswered modern research question.

Uncertainty

Where evidence is preliminary, conflicting, indirect, or absent, the language should remain preliminary, conflicting, indirect, or traditional. The purpose of a reference is not to make every idea look proven. It is to let the reader see what kind of support actually exists.

Classical And Traditional Texts

Aitareya Upanishad 2.5.
Akkosa Sutta [Discourse on Insult], Samyutta Nikaya 7.2.
Anandamurti SS (Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar). 1991. Yoga Psychology. Calcutta: Ananda Marga Publications.
Anattalakkhana Sutta [Discourse on the Characteristic of Not-Self], Samyutta Nikaya 22.59.
Ashtanga Hridaya (Ashtanga Hridayam). Sutrasthana 5, 16–18.
The Bhagavad Gita 2.45, 5.27, 6.13, 9.17.
Bhaishajya Ratnavali. Amlapitta Chikitsa.
Bhavaprakasa, including the Bhavaprakasa Nighantu. Commentary by KC Chunekar, ed. GS Pandey. Revised and enlarged ed. Varanasi: Chaukhambha Bharati Academy, 2010. Haritakyadi Varga 234.
Bhela Samhita. Sutrasthana 28.
The Bible, King James Version. Proverbs 22:8; John 1:1; Romans 5:5; 1 Corinthians 2:10; James 1:5; Revelation 6:12–14, 21:1.
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 4.4.5.
Chandogya Upanishad 3.14.1, 8.1.1.
Charaka Samhita. Sutrasthana 5, 13, 15, 26, 27, 27.312–315, 28.4; Vimanasthana 1.21–22, 8; Sharirasthana 4.36; Chikitsasthana 15.12–15; Siddhisthana 2.20–21, 9.111–117.
Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta [Setting the Dhamma Wheel in Motion], Samyutta Nikaya 56.11.
The Dhammapada, verse 125.
Gheranda Samhita 1.53–54.
Han Mao. 1989. Han Shi Yi Tong [韩氏医通]. Edited and punctuated by Ding Guangdi. Beijing: People’s Medical Publishing House; p. 35.
Hippocratic Corpus.
Huangdi Neijing Ling Shu [The Yellow Emperor’s Inner Classic: Spiritual Pivot]. c. 1st century BCE.
Ibn Sina (Avicenna). The Canon of Medicine. 11th century CE.
Jataka Nidanakatha.
The Kalama Sutta [Kesamutti Sutta], Anguttara Nikaya 3.65.
Katha Upanishad 1.2.1–2, 1.2.23.
Kathaka Samhita 27.1.
Li Shizhen. 2003. Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Gangmu). Translated and annotated by Xiwen Luo. Beijing: Foreign Languages Press.
Majjhima Nikaya 36 [Mahasaccaka Sutta].
Manusmriti 2.85, 5.19.
Patanjali. Yoga Sutras 2.46.
Purnananda. Sat-Cakra-Nirupana, translated in Arthur Avalon [Sir John Woodroffe], The Serpent Power. 1919.
Sayana. Commentary on the Rig Veda. 14th century.
Shiva Samhita.
Sushruta Samhita. Sutrasthana 14, 15.48, 46.351–357, 46.459–460, 46.477–478.
Svatmarama. Hatha Yoga Pradipika 2.31–32, 4.36.
Unschuld PU, Tessenow H, trans. 2011. Huang Di Nei Jing Su Wen: An Annotated Translation of Huang Di’s Inner Classic – Basic Questions. 2 vols. Berkeley: University of California Press. Su Wen 22.
The Upanishads: Advaya Taraka Upanishad 4–7; Chandogya Upanishad 3.14.1, 8.1.1; Dhyanabindu Upanishad; Isha Upanishad 1; Mandala Brahmana Upanishad 2; Mandukya Upanishad 7; Shvetashvatara Upanishad 6.11; Taittiriya Upanishad 2.1.1.
The Vedas: Rig Veda 1.164.45, 3.62.10, 10.90.
Vishnu Purana and Bhagavata Purana (Samudra Manthana).
Ye Tianshi. 1995. Lin Zheng Zhi Nan Yi An [临证指南医案]. Edited by Hua Xiuyun. Beijing: Huaxia Publishing House.
Zhang Zhongjing. Jin Gui Yao Lue [Essential Prescriptions from the Golden Cabinet]. c. 200 CE.
Zhang Zhongjing. Shang Han Lun [Treatise on Cold Damage]. c. 200 CE.
Zhu Danxi. Dan Xi Xin Fa.
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