As Chinese medicine students at NCNM, we are grounded in Chinese symbolism and cosmology before anything else. It is the first, mind-blowing, introduction we get to the medicine we must attempt to master. Because of the research interests of the school’s founder, Heiner Fruehauf, we chiefly use the organ clock as a way to organize our thinking […]
Reawakening the faculty of touch in learning Chinese herbs
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 year based on what I’ve […]
Phenomenology and Classical Chinese medicine : brief conclusions, opening doors
Here are the last few paragraphs of my thesis in Chinese medicine for my MSOM degree at National College of Natural Medicine. As you can probably tell, I did not go as far with any of my research topics as I would have liked. I saw it mainly as a way to learn what resources […]
Using Devonthink to learn and write about the Chinese herbal formula Ling Gui Zhu Gan Tang
This article is a bit of a dork odyssey, being how it relates to the use of a computer database program to organize highly specialized information related to Chinese herbal formulas. That will either attract or repulse you – I hope the forme I have something of an obsession with database programs. Of course, it’s not […]
Phenomenology and Chinese Medicine : the lifeworld, holism and integrative medicine
For your 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. Chinese medicine and phenomenology thesis Part I Chinese medicine and phenomenology thesis Part […]
Phenomenology and Chinese Medicine : Our body is the greatest medical technology
This is the next portion of my thesis written for my degree in Classical Chinese Medicine at NCNM in Portland. I hope you enjoy it! I’m trying to chop this into many smaller pieces so they may be more easily digested – thus hopefully compelling folks to speak up and discuss the ideas I very […]
Phenomenology and Classical Chinese Medicine
Over the next days, I will re-release the formerly posted chapters of my thesis (written for my degree at NCNM). Not included at the time of first posting were the first three chapters of the thesis. In those chapters, I write a brief history of the concept of pseudoscience through time, elucidating any concepts […]
Argument for a medical multiverse : Acknowledgements
When you write acknowledgements for a thesis at a small college in Portland, you can be reasonably assured that almost nobody will read them. This is a shame, for they are meant to be read – meant to shout your love, respect and admiration from the rooftops! So, I hope you will indulge me and […]
How the Chinese organ clock yields a more nuanced view of the Heart
Here I will present a basic overview of TCM information concerning the Heart and then add a layer of information gleaned from the Organ clock (a more CCM way of looking at things). I want to do this to demonstrate how the Classical approach yields a more nuanced view than the straight organ-based TCM approach […]
Learning about the Large Intestine using the Chinese Organ Clock, Part II
In the first part of this post on the Large Intestine organ system, we discussed some basic information including: the name and official related to LI, the five element and six conformation designation and more. In this post, I’d like to dig a little deeper into the symbolism of this important organ system. In particular, […]
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