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[Exploration and analysis of theories of five phases, eight trigrams and four elements]

Dong-Yi Cao1

  • 1Hebei Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shijiazhuang, 050061, China.

Zhonghua Yi Shi Za Zhi (Beijing, China : 1980)
|May 31, 2007
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