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Salt-sensitive hypertension and Classical Chinese Medicine, Part 1

9 September 2008 Hypertension

Editor intro
This is a Guest Post by 3rd year Classical Chinese Medicine student (and Chinese medicine blogger) Brandon Brown.  Brandon is a friend of mine and an excellent student.  He approached me with this paper and I immediately knew it would be a fantastic contribution to the site as many folks have asked me for [...]

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Chinese medicine and cancer : Introduction

9 July 2008 Herbal Medicine

One of the things I would like to do as a physician is help people who have various types of cancer.  I realize that even this statement will be regarded by some as problematic.  Some say that Chinese medicine doesn’t recognize “cancer” as such and that Chinese medicine physicians shouldn’t “specialize” in treating any [...]

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On entering into a philosophical morass: Chinese medicine and Western science

10 April 2008 Learning

Let’s get something straight. I’m very confused about the role of Western scientific research as it is currently practiced in verifying the claims of practitioners of Chinese medicine. Various studies, including the famous “sham acupuncture” study seem to challenge the premise that the theoretical bases of Chinese medicine are an accurate description of [...]

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Multi-disciplinary herbal study – Huang Qi

8 April 2008 Herbal Medicine

Last term at NCNM, the Classical Chinese Medicine students in my class took a course with Paul Kalnins, an anthroposophical researcher and natural medicine superstar, about the pharmacology of natural substances. We were asked to write a paper about a particular herb, bringing together Chinese and Western information about it. I asked my [...]

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Why should Chinese medicine students learn Western science?

2 January 2008 Science

I don’t have the answer to that question. But, I’ll do my best. To be honest, studying Western science can be pretty interesting. As an intellectual exercise, nothing beats having to go from learning to read and translate passages of the Shang Han Lun to attempting to comprehend the importance of [...]

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