Presenting symptoms can be important and useful in diagnosis; they can also be irrelevant and misleading. Trust palpation.
                                              -- Yoshio Manaka, MD
                            

It tackles many difficult concepts such as the spiritual, mental and emotional aspects of Chinese medicine, source theory and classical energetic anatomy and physiology. It is a book you can dip into at any time and come out with gems of insight that can only reinforce your belief in a paradigm that is just starting to be explored by our culture and our scientific community.
                                         --Christopher Zaslawski,
                                    Australian Journal of T.C.M.


This work presents the theory and practice of abdominal diagnosis with the greatest care ever applied to an important diagnostic technique. Beginning with a historical and cultural perspective on the use of palpation in general, and abdominal palpation in particular, the book details the information required to master and extend the techniques presented. Included are important descriptions of the role of emotional, mental, and spiritual aspects of Chinese medicine. Detailed etymologies, descriptions of historical context, and quotations from classical sources are used to provide a range of insights into hun, po, zhi, jing, and shen, as well as many other seminal concepts.
     This text offers an exceptionally well detailed exploration of interior meridian pathways and the role of classical Chinese energetic anatomy, including concepts such as source and origin of qi. The chapters on the dynamics of the triple warmers and the scientific exploration of the qi paradigm are widely regarded as having set a new standard for the relationship of traditional Oriental concepts and Western research.
 

However, Hara Diagnosis is also an extremely practical text. There are detailed, step-by-step procedures for practical diagnosis and therapy, all of which are accompanied by useful illustrations and case histories. The treatment systems described are coordinated through the abdominal patterns and are staged from the general to the specific. These include hara shiatsu, sotai and breathing exercises, and five-phase treatments. Clear instructions are provided for using Manakas ion pumping cords, mu point diagnosis, O-ring diagnosis, and secondary diagnostic and treatment strategies such as palm diagnosis. Hara Diagnosis provides not only useful therapeutic and diagnostic information, clinical and theoretical insights, but a general approach to the understanding of acupuncture that draws East and West ever closer.

Publication Date: 1989
Hardcover; 484 pages; 8.5 x 11; $59.95
Bibliography, Appendices, Index
ISBN 0-912111-13-5

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