Comments on: Chinese herb profiles – looking briefly at Guizhi / Cinnamon http://deepesthealth.com/chinese-herbal-medicine/chinese-herb-of-the-week-qualities-and-uses-of-gui-zhi-cinnamon-twig/ Chinese Medicine Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:35:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Guizhi tang 桂枝湯, Shanghan lun line 12 & Chinese herb studyDeepest Health http://deepesthealth.com/chinese-herbal-medicine/chinese-herb-of-the-week-qualities-and-uses-of-gui-zhi-cinnamon-twig/#comment-2767 Guizhi tang 桂枝湯, Shanghan lun line 12 & Chinese herb studyDeepest Health Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:06:46 +0000 http://deepesthealth.com/2007/chinese-herb-of-the-week-qualities-and-uses-of-gui-zhi-cinnamon-twig/#comment-2767 [...]  walks into a Chinese medicine clinic with the above signs, the text suggests we should give them Guizhi tang, yes? But does the information provided by this line alone help us to prescribe Guizhi tang to [...] [...]  walks into a Chinese medicine clinic with the above signs, the text suggests we should give them Guizhi tang, yes? But does the information provided by this line alone help us to prescribe Guizhi tang to [...]

]]> By: Eric Grey http://deepesthealth.com/chinese-herbal-medicine/chinese-herb-of-the-week-qualities-and-uses-of-gui-zhi-cinnamon-twig/#comment-2645 Eric Grey Wed, 14 Dec 2011 01:58:00 +0000 http://deepesthealth.com/2007/chinese-herb-of-the-week-qualities-and-uses-of-gui-zhi-cinnamon-twig/#comment-2645 Damiana, I'm glad you stopped by. Please do come back and share your knowledge and experience with us. It's a great community of folks with similar interests - hard to find these days! Eric Damiana,

I’m glad you stopped by. Please do come back and share your knowledge and experience with us. It’s a great community of folks with similar interests – hard to find these days!

Eric

]]> By: Damiana Corca http://deepesthealth.com/chinese-herbal-medicine/chinese-herb-of-the-week-qualities-and-uses-of-gui-zhi-cinnamon-twig/#comment-2630 Damiana Corca Sat, 10 Dec 2011 05:45:29 +0000 http://deepesthealth.com/2007/chinese-herb-of-the-week-qualities-and-uses-of-gui-zhi-cinnamon-twig/#comment-2630 I just discovered your blog. Excellent information. I use a lot of Chinese herbs in my practice and I am always looking for good information to learn more about herbs. Thanks for sharing. I just discovered your blog. Excellent information. I use a lot of Chinese herbs in my practice and I am always looking for good information to learn more about herbs. Thanks for sharing.

]]> By: Strategy in Chinese Medicine: Timing and Momentum in Chinese herbalism http://deepesthealth.com/chinese-herbal-medicine/chinese-herb-of-the-week-qualities-and-uses-of-gui-zhi-cinnamon-twig/#comment-248 Strategy in Chinese Medicine: Timing and Momentum in Chinese herbalism Sat, 19 Mar 2011 16:23:41 +0000 http://deepesthealth.com/2007/chinese-herb-of-the-week-qualities-and-uses-of-gui-zhi-cinnamon-twig/#comment-248 [...] formula that answers all of these requirements is Gui Zhi Tang. If given on time (meaning before the pathogen passes on to, say, the Shaoyang level) the [...] [...] formula that answers all of these requirements is Gui Zhi Tang. If given on time (meaning before the pathogen passes on to, say, the Shaoyang level) the [...]

]]> By: Michael Dell'Orfano http://deepesthealth.com/chinese-herbal-medicine/chinese-herb-of-the-week-qualities-and-uses-of-gui-zhi-cinnamon-twig/#comment-247 Michael Dell'Orfano Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:42:15 +0000 http://deepesthealth.com/2007/chinese-herb-of-the-week-qualities-and-uses-of-gui-zhi-cinnamon-twig/#comment-247 The Tang Ye Jing is lost classic, so only a small portion of the information from it has been passed on. I hope to try and obtain as much info about it as possible and use this model of herb classification in my thesis. It is believed that the Shang Han Lun formulas were influenced by the Tang Ye Jing since it predates the SHL. The Tang Ye Jing is lost classic, so only a small portion of the information from it has been passed on. I hope to try and obtain as much info about it as possible and use this model of herb classification in my thesis. It is believed that the Shang Han Lun formulas were influenced by the Tang Ye Jing since it predates the SHL.

]]> By: Abdallah http://deepesthealth.com/chinese-herbal-medicine/chinese-herb-of-the-week-qualities-and-uses-of-gui-zhi-cinnamon-twig/#comment-246 Abdallah Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:17:06 +0000 http://deepesthealth.com/2007/chinese-herb-of-the-week-qualities-and-uses-of-gui-zhi-cinnamon-twig/#comment-246 I originally moved to Berkeley, California from Ithaca, New York to study Mandarin at UC Berkeley. My initial interest was the post-1978 writings of the Misty poets. While studying there I received my first acupuncture treatment, and also took two semesters of Classical Chinese. Acupuncture school became the obvious next step. I had great teachers, especially Robert Johns, who strongly influenced my development. He encouraged us to study pulse diagnosis with Leon Hammer. I pursued this doggedly . I went to China my final semester, having finished all my coursework in record-time by enrolling in extra classes and extra clinic shifts. So I devoted my time to hospital work in Hangzhou. I recommend that every serious student goes to China, and learns as much Chinese as possible. My Chinese gets worse every year, and I intend to rectify that deficit starting NOW. I have not found a doctoral program that I think is worth the time and money. Nevertheless, it behooves us to raise the bar and continue our education. Your posts and the insight it gives me into the program at NCNM gives me hope that there will be Physicians practicing Chinese medicine as physicians. Dragon Rises College also is producing a higher calibre of graduate by different means, namely through a focus on the diagnostic system elaborated by Dr. Hammer through the many years of his association with Dr. Shen. I think there might be a couple other schools doing similarly solid work. I worked with a doctor from Taiwan who works in the strictly Shang Han Lun style, and this strengthened my appreciation for and adherence to this approach. We need to "take Chinese medicine seriously." That means we approach it with rigor, attend to its implications strictly, assuming that what is recorded is meaningful, while striving to ground it in experience-first of our teachers, and then of our own. This is what focussing on pulse diagnosis has done for me: every sign and symptom is a heuristic device by which we approach the reality of the individual. That is the phenomenological basis of our method, and it opens the door to an exploration of anything-modern or ancient, contemporary or classical, West or East-via experience, and knowledge severely tested. 'Abdallah Brandt Stickley I originally moved to Berkeley, California from Ithaca, New York to study Mandarin at UC Berkeley. My initial interest was the post-1978 writings of the Misty poets. While studying there I received my first acupuncture treatment, and also took two semesters of Classical Chinese. Acupuncture school became the obvious next step. I had great teachers, especially Robert Johns, who strongly influenced my development. He encouraged us to study pulse diagnosis with Leon Hammer. I pursued this doggedly . I went to China my final semester, having finished all my coursework in record-time by enrolling in extra classes and extra clinic shifts. So I devoted my time to hospital work in Hangzhou.
I recommend that every serious student goes to China, and learns as much Chinese as possible. My Chinese gets worse every year, and I intend to rectify that deficit starting NOW.
I have not found a doctoral program that I think is worth the time and money. Nevertheless, it behooves us to raise the bar and continue our education.
Your posts and the insight it gives me into the program at NCNM gives me hope that there will be Physicians practicing Chinese medicine as physicians. Dragon Rises College also is producing a higher calibre of graduate by different means, namely through a focus on the diagnostic system elaborated by Dr. Hammer through the many years of his association with Dr. Shen. I think there might be a couple other schools doing similarly solid work. I worked with a doctor from Taiwan who works in the strictly Shang Han Lun style, and this strengthened my appreciation for and adherence to this approach.
We need to “take Chinese medicine seriously.” That means we approach it with rigor, attend to its implications strictly, assuming that what is recorded is meaningful, while striving to ground it in experience-first of our teachers, and then of our own.
This is what focussing on pulse diagnosis has done for me: every sign and symptom is a heuristic device by which we approach the reality of the individual. That is the phenomenological basis of our method, and it opens the door to an exploration of anything-modern or ancient, contemporary or classical, West or East-via experience, and knowledge severely tested.

‘Abdallah Brandt Stickley

]]> By: Eric http://deepesthealth.com/chinese-herbal-medicine/chinese-herb-of-the-week-qualities-and-uses-of-gui-zhi-cinnamon-twig/#comment-245 Eric Wed, 18 Jul 2007 14:08:55 +0000 http://deepesthealth.com/2007/chinese-herb-of-the-week-qualities-and-uses-of-gui-zhi-cinnamon-twig/#comment-245 It's funny because I didn't really remember that we had learned about this text - I was reading through notes from Dr. Versluys' class and saw the text name at the top of one of the handouts and thought, "Oh! I obviously missed something." I remembered the info - but not where it had come from. I'm hoping to find more information about it... I'll definitely share what I find. We don't learn Chinese formally - we do take Classical text courses where we translate ancient texts using Chinese dictionaries - so we end up learning a lot that way. We also just hear Chinese all the time and you start to pick it up. But as I've said elsewhere in posts, I feel it's sort of expected that you will learn it somehow.. it really accelerates the learning process, in my opinion. We are currently working on getting a Doctoral program approved which would have China time built into it. If that goes through I will probably come back to school to do it after I've been in practice for a couple of years. No matter what, though, I'm definitely going to spend some time there. I think it's probably essential. How about you? Eric It’s funny because I didn’t really remember that we had learned about this text – I was reading through notes from Dr. Versluys’ class and saw the text name at the top of one of the handouts and thought, “Oh! I obviously missed something.” I remembered the info – but not where it had come from. I’m hoping to find more information about it… I’ll definitely share what I find.

We don’t learn Chinese formally – we do take Classical text courses where we translate ancient texts using Chinese dictionaries – so we end up learning a lot that way. We also just hear Chinese all the time and you start to pick it up. But as I’ve said elsewhere in posts, I feel it’s sort of expected that you will learn it somehow.. it really accelerates the learning process, in my opinion.

We are currently working on getting a Doctoral program approved which would have China time built into it. If that goes through I will probably come back to school to do it after I’ve been in practice for a couple of years. No matter what, though, I’m definitely going to spend some time there. I think it’s probably essential. How about you?

Eric

]]> By: Abdallah http://deepesthealth.com/chinese-herbal-medicine/chinese-herb-of-the-week-qualities-and-uses-of-gui-zhi-cinnamon-twig/#comment-244 Abdallah Wed, 18 Jul 2007 11:29:00 +0000 http://deepesthealth.com/2007/chinese-herb-of-the-week-qualities-and-uses-of-gui-zhi-cinnamon-twig/#comment-244 I look forward to this series. I am not familiar with the Tang Ye Jing. Do you learn Chinese at NCNM? Have plans to go to China? I look forward to this series. I am not familiar with the Tang Ye Jing. Do you learn Chinese at NCNM? Have plans to go to China?

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