This book, now a classic, presents traditional Chinese medicine with the clarity of a manual, without isolating it from the understanding of the world that forms its background.

"The convergence of traditional Chinese medicine, and especially acupuncture, with so-called Western medicine," write the authors, "is one of the great medical events of the 20th century. A book on acupuncture written in France must strive to respect as far as possible this vision of the human being in the world that grounds the originality of Chinese acupuncture."