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theory-to-practice

The concept of constitution in Chinese herbal medicine

11 November 2009 Conditions

I have to admit to some weirdness around the concept of “constitution.” This is absolutely unfounded, I have no clinical or theoretical information to back up my feeling. I think I’ve just seen this concept be misused. Once you get an idea in your head that a patient is a “Chaihu person,” or a “Bladder [...]

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Finding balance between Chinese medicine and running a Chinese medicine based business

30 October 2009 Blogging

It’s been hard for me to write lately. It’s mostly because when I look at my old entries, particularly those that got a lot of attention, they are nothing like what I think about and write about now. During my second year, and the summer after, I was really just reading and re-reading the material [...]

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How getting into right relationship with your business can get you unstuck

23 July 2009 Business

I have been actively working on creating the clinic I want to work in for about two solid years. Because I started so early, I had the chance to go through a lot of different stages of development before my income was on the line. I entertained different options. A Chinese medicine and massage based [...]

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Are contemporary diet plans compatible with Chinese medical theory?

20 December 2008 Food and drink

No.
But, let’s discuss this further.  I’ll be brief.  Consider, say, Medifast. It’s popular among teenage girls and, apparently, some Chinese medicine students.  Perusing the website, it seems like a perfectly reasonable diet plan.  Things seem balanced, on the whole.  Great, great.
Let me ask you a question – is there something wrong with a basic whole [...]

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Contemporary discipleship in Chinese medicine

25 November 2007 Learning

One of the things I see as inherent in a Classical approach to Chinese medicine is the recovery of a sense of discipleship. The passing of knowledge from Master to Student has always been a part of the medicine, as far as I can tell. This is not a [...]

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