脾 Pi – Spleen : Lessons learned from Yin Earth Earthly Branch Si – The Snake : Lesson – You can take in a lot more than you think, but don’t overdo it The Spleen is associated with the 6th Earthly Branch 巳 – Si. This is one of the…

As I’m working on some of the foundational materials for the upcoming Shennong Relational Herb Learning course, I’m revisiting some material from classical Chinese medicine texts that I don’t know particularly well.  It’s prompted me to get out my Big Chinese-English Dictionary and start slogging through the tedious process of translating…

So, I didn’t write much about using the faculty of sight in learning Chinese herbs. That’s mostly because I’m doing other research about it, particularly around the doctrine of signatures and I’d prefer to write more when I have more to say. I’m already retooling my NCNM class for next…

Update : This post formed the beginning thoughts of what eventually became the Shennong Relational Herb Learning Method.  If you think you might be interested in taking a course that tackles what’s below – why don’t you consider signing up for the interest list?  You’ll get the free Shennong Formula…

There is a very interesting discussion going on over at Richard Goodman’s blog – He explains… “…Ling Shu Chapter 55 The superior physician treats that which is not yet ill. The inferior physician treats that which is already ill. This is a fairly famous statement, which is often interpreted to…

Reading through my Chinese Medicine news feed, I came across this article – China to further modernize Traditional Chinese Medicine. Here’s their description of what modernizing means for the medicine. “In modernizing TCM, efforts will be made to improve standards, study new applications and standardize planting, production and processing of…