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The Art of Palpating the Abdomen for the Purpose of Prescribing Chinese herbal formulas

8 September 2008 Diagnosis

This is a guest post from recent National College of Natural Medicine (NCNM) graduate, Kumiko Shirai.  She is a fine herbalist already and obviously has an expertise in the (almost) lost art of abdominal diagnosis.  I have seen this work in action and can attest to its amazing effectiveness!  Please enjoy the article.  There [...]

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The nuts and bolts of the Chinese medicine awareness experiement

11 August 2008 Blogging

In two articles, Abdallah and I have begun to lay out the foundations for a project that is, in some ways, the extension of the Year of Sagely Living.  There hasn’t been much discussion generated around those two articles.  There are two possible reasons for this and they both come down to our failure to [...]

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Entering the Flow

7 August 2008 Cultivation

Whither Sagely Living?
Across a divide of space spanning a continent, a partnership in exploration has opened whose wellsprings lie removed further still across a span of centuries and oceans. I am speaking, of course, of this latest project that Eric and I have conceived in the course of our conversations over the last few [...]

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Using the imagination in Classical Chinese medicine

12 June 2008 Student Life

The importance of the role of pattern differentiation in Chinese medicine cannot be overstated. Some go so far as to say that Classical Chinese Medicine is “pattern medicine.” What on Earth can that mean? I think about it in a few ways. First, Chinese medicine takes patterns very seriously. I don’t [...]

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