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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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More Classical Chinese Medicine courses in Portland, an update and a question

27 September 2009 Blogging

Hello my patient readers,
I have a few items of interest for you today.
1. I am working hard on several things for the blog. My work has been stymied somewhat by the new course I’m teaching at NCNM (have to get my teaching legs under me) and the intense amount of activity going on at Watershed [...]

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Wikipedia page about Classical Chinese Medicine : calling all scholars!

21 August 2009 CM News

Interestingly, I believe that I was the first person to create a Wikipedia page about Classical Chinese Medicine. Since then, it has been rewritten, co-opted and sometimes even just erased! Currently, the Wikipedia community is discussing what to do with the article (which now contains almost nothing of my original write-up) and it would be [...]

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A very long Chinese medicine engagement

17 August 2009 Classical Texts (general)

I want to try something new. Many of my readers have asked me to do more discussion of the Classical texts. I have been hesitant because my command of Chinese is not great and the available translations are mostly disappointing (if my teachers are to be believed). However, my need to dive into them continuously [...]

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Phenomenology and Classical Chinese medicine : brief conclusions, opening doors

13 August 2009 Learning

Here are the last few paragraphs of my thesis in Chinese medicine for my MSOM degree at National College of Natural Medicine. As you can probably tell, I did not go as far with any of my research topics as I would have liked. I saw it mainly as a way to learn what resources [...]

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