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Salt Sensitive Hypertension and Classical Chinese Medicine, Part 3

11 September 2008 Classical Texts (general)

This is the final post in a three part series by Brandon Brown, blogger and student of Classical Chinese Medicine at NCNM.  You can read the first two parts here and here, and can read references for the article by visiting Brandon’s site here.
Salt in the Classics
Salt is mentioned a number of times in the [...]

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Chinese medicine, the Earth and the Center

25 August 2008 Learning

When talking about the five elements, particularly as applied to the organ systems of Chinese medicine, it’s easy to find an angle from which to proclaim the supremacy of any of the elements.  Fire gets four organs, for instance, one of those being the Emperor – surely it’s the most important.  Water, on the other [...]

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Classical Chinese medical symbolism: Wood, Metal and Spring

17 March 2008 Seasons

Today I am featuring the first part of a two part guest post by my friend and colleague at NCNM, Michael “Delli” Dell’orfano. His article is a fine elaboration of the ideas I briefly presented in my post about Rest and Activity in the Year of Sagely Living. I will post the remainder of [...]

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Why does Classical Chinese Medicine seem so complicated?

30 January 2008 Classical Texts (general)

This is the first part of a two part guest article by my friend and peer, Michael Givens. Michael is also a third year student of Classical Chinese Medicine at the National College of Natural Medicine in Portland, OR. He shares my fervor for the medicine and has been an inspiration to me [...]

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A Five Element Path to maintaining sanity amid chaos, Part II

16 November 2007 Character

Yesterday in the first part of this discussion of maintaining sanity, I discussed the roles of Wood, Fire and Water in creation and resolution of the problems that often plague many of us who take in, and take on – way too much. I’d like to talk now about how I’ve used the symbolism [...]

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