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Using Devonthink to learn and write about the Chinese herbal formula Ling Gui Zhu Gan Tang

August 12, 2009 by Eric Grey 5 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: Study & Scholarship Tagged With: herbal formulas

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

August 5, 2009 by Eric Grey 1 Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Foundational Science Tagged With: phenomenology, philosophy of science, philosphy of science, Science, Theory, thesis

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

July 29, 2009 by Eric Grey 5 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: Foundational Science Tagged With: phenomenology, philosophy of science, philosphy of science, Science, senses, Theory, thesis, western philosophy

Phenomenology and Classical Chinese Medicine

July 22, 2009 by Eric Grey 7 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: Foundational Science Tagged With: phenomenology, philosophy of science, thesis, western philosophy

Argument for a medical multiverse : Acknowledgements

June 14, 2009 by Eric Grey 1 Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Foundational Science

How the Chinese organ clock yields a more nuanced view of the Heart

August 21, 2008 by Eric Grey 7 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: Foundational Science Tagged With: balance, clinic, heiner fruehauf, law, organ system, Organ systems, organ-clock, shang-han-lun, spirituality, symbolism, traditional-chinese-medicine

Learning about the Large Intestine using the Chinese Organ Clock, Part II

July 31, 2008 by Eric Grey 1 Comment

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, […]

Filed Under: Foundational Science Tagged With: chinese-organ-clock, hexagram, organ system, Organ systems, organ-clock, symbolism

Learning about the Large Intestine through the Chinese medicine organ clock, Part I

July 30, 2008 by Eric Grey 8 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: Foundational Science Tagged With: organ system, Organ systems, spring

Learning about the Lung through the Chinese medicine organ clock

July 7, 2008 by Eric Grey 10 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: Foundational Science Tagged With: chinese-organ-clock, lung, Organ systems, symbolic-thinking, symbolism

The six conformations: an exploratory post

May 27, 2008 by Eric Grey

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 […]

Filed Under: Foundational Science Tagged With: decommissioned, shang-han-lun, Theory, Zhang Zhong Jing

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