The Study of Yunqi in Chinese Medicine

This book is a national planning textbook for general higher education under the "14th Five-Year Plan," compiled under the unified organization of the National Association of Higher Education in Chinese Medicine and the National Research Association for the Construction of Higher Education Textbooks in Chinese Medicine, for use by undergraduate Chinese medicine programs at higher institutions of Chinese medicine. The study of yunqi in Chinese medicine is a discipline in ancient China that examines the patterns of climatic change over time and the influence of climate change on human life. It fully embodies the holistic view of "correspondence between heaven and humanity" and highlights the close relationship between natural climatic shifts and the rhythms of human life. It occupies an important place in the theoretical system of Chinese medicine and offers guidance for clinical pattern identification and treatment as well as the prevention of common external-contraction and internal-injury diseases, epidemic diseases, and pestilential diseases. The book consists of six chapters: the introduction presents the disciplinary positioning, guiding ideology, formative foundations, brief history of development, characteristics of its cognitive methods, and learning methods of yunqi study; the basic content of the five movements and six qi explains the stems and branches, the five movements, the six qi, and the combination of yun and qi; the section on yunqi and medical theory clarifies the basic medical principles of Chinese medicine on which yunqi theory rests; the chapter on clinical application of yunqi theory combines yunqi deduction with pattern identification and treatment and with the prevention and control of epidemic diseases; the section on the five movements and six qi and health preservation discusses the approach of regulating health according to yunqi constitution and seasonal timing; and the final chapter outlines the connections between yunqi study and related disciplines such as astronomy, meteorology, and phenology. Appended at the end are the original text of the seven yunqi chapters and two supplementary chapters of the Suwen with brief annotations, facilitating study in direct comparison with the classic text. This edition is the third edition of the "14th Five-Year Plan" textbook, about 400,000 characters in total with 228 pages of main text, accompanied by digital teaching resources. Each chapter includes learning objectives and review questions, making it suitable both as a course textbook for Chinese medicine colleges and as a systematic introduction to the five movements and six qi for self-learners.