The following is a preface to the recently published book “Medical Cases from the Flower Charm Studio” which was translated by Lorraine Wilcox and edited by Marnae Ergil.  The preface is written by Sharon Weizenbaum. Here is an excerpt from the book to download

The book is currently available for purchase from the Purple Cloud Institute.

The job of a translator is not only to accurately render the original writer’s voice and intention but also to choose, among a plethora of possibilities, the text to translate. The choices are vast, given that a considerable percentage of Chinese medical written records have not been translated into English. In choosing Medical Cases from the Flower Charm Studio by Gù Déhuá, Lorraine Wilcox provides a great service to our community of practitioners.

This text records twenty-nine of Dr. Gù’s complex and often dangerous cases. In many instances, other contemporaneous published case records are quite short, giving only a simple intake, diagnosis, and formula choice with little discussion; frequently, doctors provided no more than the initial and follow-up formulas. In Dr. Gù’s records however, she takes the reader through up to fifteen clinical encounters with a single patient, allowing us to see how the terrain of the case shifts over time in response […]