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formulas

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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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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A relational method of learning Chinese herbs

28 August 2009 Herbal Medicine

I’ve been working on developing some courses I want to teach. I plan to teach them online, via an extension of Deepest Health, but also some using the Gift Economy model at my clinic – Watershed Community Wellness. Some of these courses will be geared toward Chinese medicine students and practitioners who are having a [...]

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Upcoming Portland-area Chinese medicine events of note

4 August 2009 Acupuncture

I’m continuing to be neck deep in business planning. Today we finalized a bunch of copy for our website, came closer to opening a business bank account, got a bunch of things finalized with the lawyer, and had our first “official” meeting as a LLC (hilarious – board meeting with two people at the kitchen [...]

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Herbs and acupuncture – eight engaging articles on Deepest Health

3 August 2009 Blogging

Hey folks,
I’m still trying to settle on the right publishing schedule. I’m going to let weekends be pretty loose, publishing sometimes but not others. I’m also going to move the topics around a bit to be more conducive to writing great articles for you folks. When I settle on the right schedule, I’ll create icons [...]

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