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Learning

Do you need help building the practice of your dreams?

13 March 2010 Business

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Sure, we all do. I’ve talked about various business topics on Deepest Health. I’ve made some recommendations about books, websites and [...]

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Frustrations on the path to Chinese medicine mastery

7 March 2010 Learning

I’ve been working with students explicitly for about a year now, teaching at NCNM. I think I will be continuing to do this, as the activity suits me and it also forces me to keep studying. I find that I want to teach about learning a lot, even though I do like teaching about herbs [...]

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These symbols are meant to be questioned (they just don’t often give clear answers)

12 February 2010 Classical Texts (general)

I have a feeling I’m going to get in trouble for my teaching. It’s not that I’m that revolutionary, or that I really even know that much more than my students. It’s just that my fundamental orientation towards the universe is to be always, always asking questions. I don’t always need to let those questions [...]

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Let’s learn Classical Chinese together : encouragement and an interview with Richard Goodman

1 December 2009 Classical Texts (general)

Hey everyone,
Well, the winter holidays are upon us here in the Northern hemisphere. For those of you in school, that means you’ve probably got some free time coming up. Why not use some of that to get going on the honorable project of learning to read classical texts of Chinese medicine? Sounds like fun to [...]

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The concept of constitution in Chinese herbal medicine

11 November 2009 Conditions

I have to admit to some weirdness around the concept of “constitution.” This is absolutely unfounded, I have no clinical or theoretical information to back up my feeling. I think I’ve just seen this concept be misused. Once you get an idea in your head that a patient is a “Chaihu person,” or a “Bladder [...]

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