From the monthly archives:

April 2008

Classical Chinese Medicine events in Portland, OR

20 April 2008 CM News

I know not everyone is lucky enough to live in or around Portland, OR. ;) I would still like to announce these events – they are more than worth the travel cost and time, I assure you. Click on the flyers for bigger versions, you should be able to click on the [...]

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Classical Chinese Medicine resources on the web

19 April 2008 Blogging

It’s been a while since I’ve talked about what’s available on the web for people interested in Chinese Medicine. Living in Portland, OR, I have so many amazing wellsprings of knowledge and experience all around me, I sometimes forget that other folks are relatively more isolated from the information they seek. The Internet is a [...]

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On entering into a philosophical morass: Chinese medicine and Western science

10 April 2008 Learning

Let’s get something straight. I’m very confused about the role of Western scientific research as it is currently practiced in verifying the claims of practitioners of Chinese medicine. Various studies, including the famous “sham acupuncture” study seem to challenge the premise that the theoretical bases of Chinese medicine are an accurate description of [...]

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Taking it all in: Buddhist practice and Chinese medicine school

9 April 2008 Character

I’ve been struggling for the past couple of weeks.  I’ve gone through the range of responses to my difficulty, mostly hovering in the realm of “just keep moving” which seems to work for me.  The fact is that since I began Chinese medicine school at National College of Natural Medicine (NCNM) I’ve gone through periods [...]

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Multi-disciplinary herbal study – Huang Qi

8 April 2008 Herbal Medicine

Last term at NCNM, the Classical Chinese Medicine students in my class took a course with Paul Kalnins, an anthroposophical researcher and natural medicine superstar, about the pharmacology of natural substances. We were asked to write a paper about a particular herb, bringing together Chinese and Western information about it. I asked my [...]

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