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How the Chinese organ clock yields a more nuanced view of the Heart

21 August 2008 Cultivation

Here I will present a basic overview of TCM information concerning the Heart and then add a layer of information gleaned from the Organ clock (a more CCM way of looking at things).  I want to do this to demonstrate how the Classical approach yields a more nuanced view than the straight organ-based TCM [...]

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Symbolism, Chinese medicine and the birth of a new project

5 August 2008 Blogging

I’ve been working on a series about the Chinese medicine organ systems for the past few weeks.  We’ve already covered the Lung, and then the Large Intestine in two parts.  During that time, my understanding of the symbolism (including what’s available through the Chinese medicine organ clock) that is shot through Chinese medical literature has [...]

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Learning about the Large Intestine using the Chinese Organ Clock, Part II

31 July 2008 Organ systems

In the first part of this post on the Large Intestine organ system, we discussed some basic information including:  the name and official related to LI, the five element and six conformation designation and more.  In this post, I’d like to dig a little deeper into the symbolism of this important organ system.  In particular, [...]

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Learning about the Large Intestine through the Chinese medicine organ clock, Part I

30 July 2008 Organ systems

This post is part of a series of articles discussing the symbolism of the organ systems of Chinese Medicine.  To help dig into the rich symbolism of the way that Chinese medicine describes the body, I am using the Chinese organ clock.  As always, this information comes from my distillation of what my teachers have [...]

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Why I am about to become slave to the clock

5 March 2008 Cultivation

As I described in my last post on the Year of Sagely Living, March is meant to have us focus on the balance of rest and activity in our lives. I’ve thought more about this category than the two prior, because nothing immediately sprang to mind as a perfect practice to undertake. This [...]

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