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The importance of the Spleen in studying Classical Chinese Medicine

on November 15th, 2011 in Theory and Philosophy by

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…

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Chinese medical symbolism: the organ clock

on October 4th, 2011 in Physiology and Pathology by

Established readers : this is one of many reposted articles you will see in the coming months.  It is part of the redesign process.  I hope you agree that all of these articles are worth another look! Chinese language is symbolic – it uses pictures (now highly stylized and simplified)…

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The Yijing and Chinese medicine : Hexagram 11, Tai 泰

on June 17th, 2010 in Physiology and Pathology by

Note:  This is the first of a series of posts that will be released every 1-3 days.  The majority is archived content that many of you may not have caught the first time round.  This will rebuild our blog archive after the big website update so that much of the…

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The sages of Chinese medicine stood facing South

on November 3rd, 2009 in Learning by

I hope this reflection will be useful to all those Chinese medicine students out there who struggle with figuring out what TYPE of Chinese medicine to practice… Today, on a walk I was taught an important lesson by some late migrating geese. In the late summer and autumn, we get…

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