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Chinese medical symbolism: the organ clock

October 4, 2011 by Eric Grey 24 Comments

Chinese medical symbolism: the organ clock

Established readers : this is one of many reposted articles you will see in the coming months.  It is part of the redesign process.  I hope you agree that all of these articles are worth another look! Chinese language is symbolic – it uses pictures (now highly stylized and simplified) to represent concepts. Chinese culture, […]

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

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

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