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Phenomenology and Chinese Medicine : the lifeworld, holism and integrative medicine

5 August 2009 Learning

For your Wednesday (or Thursday, depending on where you are) reading pleasure, I would like to offer the third piece of my Chinese medicine thesis, written at NCNM. As promised, I’m breaking it up into bite-sized chunks and only presenting the final chapter. The next installment will be the last. I hope, in weeks thereafter, [...]

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Phenomenology and Chinese Medicine : Our body is the greatest medical technology

29 July 2009 Ethics

So, as promised – here is the next portion of my thesis written for my degree in Classical Chinese Medicine at NCNM in Portland. I hope you enjoy it! For those folks who requested the first chapters – I’ll get them to you soon. I’m trying to chop this into many smaller pieces so they [...]

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Mining for gold : Best of Deepest Health

10 April 2009 Blogging

Hey folks,
As I’m winding down on this crazy educational journey, I find myself nostalgic for those days of olde.  Back when I wrote posts with abandon.  Anyway, some pretty good discussions went on during some of those posts, and they can be hard to find in the archives.  I thought I would highlight some of [...]

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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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The acupuncture channels and Chinese herb flavors

8 December 2008 Classical Texts (general)

This is a guest post from my friend and colleague, Michael Givens.  Please enjoy and look forward to more posts from him in the future.  :)
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It’s been a while since I’ve submitted an article for this blog, but I recently read something both inspiring and provocative, which has moved me [...]

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