Eric Grey, Author at Deepest Health

Studying Chinese Medicine – the tenth year

on 07/05/2012 by Eric Grey in Study and Scholarship

The latest group of students just graduated from my alma mater, and sometimes employer, NCNM. (Congrats – you crazy kids!) This means around this time, three years ago, I was ecstatic to be starting my own Chinese medicine practitioner journey, and ready to recuperate after a long four years. Truth be told, I started studying [...]

Deepest Health Podcast 20 – Interview with Andy Ellis of Spring Wind Herbs

on 07/04/2012 by Eric Grey in Podcast

Evidence of my respect for Spring Wind herbs can be found all over Deepest Health. I was lucky to be introduced to this company early on in my Chinese medicine education. I was (and am) even luckier that Andy and the whole staff of Spring Wind are so forthcoming with knowledge about bulk Chinese herbs. [...]

Getting back to the basics of websites (my mistake in last blog entry)

on 06/29/2012 by Eric Grey in Business and Productivity

Whew – lots of things crop up when one is rebuilding a website from the ground up, as I did. Just today, in fact, I lost ALL THE CONTENT FROM THE SITE temporarily. Then the membership side of things fell apart. Lots of stress, lots of walks and Qigong, lots of good ginger tea, more [...]

Getting back to the basics of Chinese medicine

on 06/28/2012 by Eric Grey in Foundational Science

A few weeks ago, when considering how to create a great curriculum for an online school of Chinese medicine, I picked up a book I hadn’t touched in years. The book is Ta Chuan: The Great Treatise, by Stephen Karcher, one of my favorite Yijing (aka I Ching) interpreters. We were assigned the text during [...]

What’s going on here? Further evolution of Deepest Health

on 06/14/2012 by Eric Grey in Business and Productivity

If you’re reading this site via RSS subscription, you may have received a tantalizing teaser about a Shennong course module. If you would have moved to check out the post, you would have found your access blocked unless you are a Shennong member. I’m sorry about that! That little technological error was my fault [...]

Guizhi tang and Miles Davis – an exploration in the harmony of Chinese herb formulas

on 06/06/2012 by Eric Grey in Acupuncture, Herbs & Other modalities

Note: This post is written by NCNM student & CMQ contributor Eugene Lee. He also provided the painting here – a beautiful interpretation of the characters for “Guizhi tang” – please comment on this post, encourage Eugene’s contributions! One of the words for Medicine in Chinese is 藥 yao, the top part of which indicates [...]