Early Essays on Acupuncture and Moxa — 2. Moxibustion

 

Editors: E. Serejski and J. Howard. Distributor: Lulu. $24.99. 232 pages. Paperback UT. Vol. 2. 2017.

The series on early essays on acupuncture and moxa consists of three volumes grouping the first English texts covering this topic. These essays are fundamental within the context of history and historiography of the field, clinical applications, and early explorations of the mechanisms involved. This series truly belongs to the shelves of practitioners and libraries of Oriental Medicine schools.

 

See also: Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3.

 

Contents of Volume 2

 

  • Introduction to the Essays
  • 1. An essay upon the cure of the gout by moxa – William Temple, 1677
  • 2. On the use of Moxa as a therapeutical agent – Dominique-Jean Larrey (Dunglison, Tr.), 1822
    • Introduction
    • Preliminary observations. — On the necessity of the payment of the greatest attention to the relation between. Cause and Effect, in the study of Medicine
    • History of the moxa
    • Derivation of the term
    • Its present acceptation
    • Period of its first introduction into notice in Europe
    • Antiquity of the use of cauterization
    • Moxas of the Nomads, Indians, Persians, Armenians, Chinese, Japanese, Thessalians, Egyptians, Arakanese, Ostiaks, Laplanders, North Amerchans, etc.
    • Description of the Chinese Moxa
    • Mode of preparing it and Universality of its application
    • Of acupuncturation
    • Mode of applying the Chinese Moxa
    • After treatment
    • Of the Egyptians, or Cotton Moxa
    • Moxas proposed by Baron Percy
    • Remarks upon the use of the moxa as a therapeutic agent
    • Conclusion
    • On the use of moxa
    • Prefatory remarks
    • Description of the moxa
    • Parts proper for its application
    • Parts which are objectionable
    • Properties of the moxa
    • Observations on its application
    • On cupping
    • Diseases for which Moxa is indicated
      • 1. Of vision
      • 2. Of smell
      • 3. Of taste
      • 4. Of hearing, of voice, and of speech
      • 5. Of paralytic affections of the muscular system
      • 6. Of paralysis
      • 7. Of organic diseases of the head
      • 8. Of diseases of the chest
      • 9. Of old catarrhal affections, and chronic phlegmasia of the pleura
      • 10. Of phthisis pulmonalis
      • 11. Of chronic and organic diseases of the abdominal viscera
      • 12. Of rachitis
      • 13. Of rachialgia
      • 14. Of sacro-coxalgia
      • 15. Of femoro-coxalgia
      • Conclusion
    • Illustrations
      • Plate 1 - Instruments used in the application of moxa
      • Plate 2 – Japanese figurine
      • Plate 3 – Brain
      • Plate 4 – Vessels
    • References
    • Works by Dominique-Jean Larrey (1766-1842)
  • References
  • Unidentified
  • Additional references