Exploring Chinese Medicine & Its Many Intersections
I went to school at NCNM/NUNM in Portland, where classical Chinese medicine thinking & classical Chinese language were at the root of the curriculum. This meant that I picked up classical Chinese …
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Since I began this career, I have been interested in exploring the best ways to study Chinese medicine. When I first started school, the sheer volume of information I had to absorb was …
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As a student learning Chinese herbs, I was impatient. Already having been in higher education for 8 years straight, I was eager to get on with it. I didn’t understand the process, and I didn’t …
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I was just reading an article in the latest National Geographic magazine about memory. It is an interesting article that got me thinking about the role of memorization in learning Chinese medicine. …
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From an early stage in my studies of Classical Chinese medicine, I realized that Chinese herbal formulas are where it's really at. The formula is the clinically functional unit - not the single herb. …
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