This is an old article I touched up and re-released. I hope you enjoy it! Guizhi – Cinnamon twig – Emperor of Emperors In my opinion, there is no more important herb in the materia medica than Guizhi. It is used in so many formulas, spanning all organ systems and…
Continue reading... Share this脾 Pi – Spleen : Lessons learned from Yin Earth Earthly Branch Si – The Snake : Lesson – You can take in a lot more than you think, but don’t overdo it The Spleen is associated with the 6th Earthly Branch 巳 – Si. This is one of the…
Continue reading... Share thisI wrote this article in 2007, and have updated it a little bit. What’s interesting is that my view of what makes a great Chinese medicine practitioner hasn’t changed that much. That’s because I have created my ideas about this by watching those practitioners whom I respect the most, who…
Continue reading... Share thisI hope this reflection will be useful to all those Chinese medicine students out there who struggle with figuring out what TYPE of Chinese medicine to practice… Today, on a walk I was taught an important lesson by some late migrating geese. In the late summer and autumn, we get…
Continue reading... Share thisMa Huang – Ephedra – 麻黄 Mahuang is one of the most famous herbs in the Chinese Materia Medica – and with good reason. In a world where medicine is mostly unable to deal with the most common illnesses that people encounter, colds and flus, an herb that can handily…
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