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Wednesday, July 4, 2007

Chinese medical symbolism: the organ clock

4 July 2007 Organ systems

Chinese language is symbolic – it uses pictures (now highly stylized and simplified) to represent concepts. Chinese culture, even today, is infused with symbolism. Western culture is actually no less symbolic though our language is not pictorial. We are simply less aware of it. In any case, Classical Chinese medicine takes [...]

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Dizzy? Eat some dragon bones.

4 July 2007 CM News

I ran across a news item today of some interest to my readers. It involves the discovery that some villagers in China were using the fossils of a dinosaur as medicine, apparently not knowing that they were an important artifact.
“They had believed that the ‘dragon bones’ were from the dragons flying in the [...]

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