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How am I going to survive the next twelve weeks? A study in the power of Chinese medicine theory

1 April 2009 Acupuncture

Well, it’s finally come to this – the final quarter of my formal institutional training in Classical Chinese Medicine. Wow.  I mean, really, wow.  There are quite a few of you out there who are in the same boat I am – looking graduation in the face.  It’s exciting, yes, but it’s also a little [...]

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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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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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