Hi - I'm the founder of Deepest Health. When I'm not writing here, you can find me reaching out to the Chinese Medicine community across the web and in my own backyard. I currently teach Chinese herbs at my alma mater, the National College of Natural Medicine. Additionally, I'm the founder of Watershed Community Wellness, a thriving local clinic in Southeast Portland in Oregon. No matter where I'm working, you'll find my focus on the Classical approach to Chinese medicine laced throughout everything I do.
I want to start this post with a question. What role does your spiritual life play in your practice of Chinese medicine? For those of you who do not acknowledge having a “spiritual life,” what role does your “inner life” play in your practice of Chinese medicine? To say it another way, how does the [...]
Continue reading...Here’s a simple collection of thoughts about being in clinical practice in a Chinese medicine clinic from someone new to the profession, G. Michael Reynolds. 1. It’s hard being a natural medicine practitioner when you’re relatively sickly. I’m a fairly good sized guy.When I was born my mom’s OB/GYN declared I was going to [...]
Continue reading...After posting an earlier post discussing the first of my five maxims, a request came up to present the rest of them. Never one to shy from a good request, today I’d like to present Reynolds’ Second Maxim, which is “Don’t hear horses and think zebras” which could also be phrased “Thou shalt not overcomplicate!” [...]
Continue reading...Let’s conclude this series on strategy in Chinese medicine with our final two points. Treating Erratically Martin Luther once said that Mankind is like a drunkard who upon falling off his horse on one side overcompensates and promptly falls off the other side. In Chinese medicine, the opposite of sticking with the same protocol [...]
Continue reading...We hope you have enjoyed Mitesh’s fine work about Chinese herb flavors and their combinations. What I loved about this project was the willingness to examine cherished Chinese medicine concepts – testing them using the most sophisticated laboratory known on Earth – the human body. —– If you missed any of the series, just read [...]
Continue reading...You will remember not too long ago when Mitesh, a student at NCNM, released some very interesting information about an experiment he was doing concerning the flavors of Chinese herbs, their combinations, and their impact on human physiology. Well, he completed a continuation of the project for this latest term project and has consented to [...]
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