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, […]
Learning about the Large Intestine through the Chinese medicine organ clock, Part I
This post is part of a series of articles discussing the symbolism of the organ systems of Chinese Medicine. To help dig into the rich symbolism of the way that Chinese medicine describes the body, I am using the Chinese organ clock. As always, this information comes from my distillation of what my teachers have […]
Learning about the Lung through the Chinese medicine organ clock
To this day, some of my most popular posts involve the organ clock. I find the organ clock to be fascinating, but lately I haven’t thought that much about it. Thus, I haven’t posted much about it. As our education has focused more and more on the superficially practical information (points, needling, formulas) it’s become […]
The six conformations: an exploratory post
Founders note : This post was written many years ago, when I was first learning about this important system of pathophysiological understanding. It’s a good basic intro to the fundamental information, though of course lacks nuance as most student writing can. —– The topic of the Six Conformations is quite broad. So broad, it’s a […]
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