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.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 43:12 — 98.9MB) In this episode of the podcast, we talk to eminent scholar and owner of Legendary Herbs, Eric Brand. In a somewhat briefer than normal conversation, we discuss topics of Chinese herb processing, the trade in Chinese herbs and questions of herbal access. Eric is [...]
Continue reading...Update: If you’re going to comment on this post, please just remove the vitriol. There’s just absolutely NO reason to react to anything anybody has said with anything but respectful dialogue. I’ve had to delete several comments that just crossed the line. I’m the only one allowed to cross the line, here, folks. Given a [...]
Continue reading...So now Faith, Hope and Love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love. (Corinthians 1:13) Have you ever found yourself frozen? In private practice in Chinese medicine (as in other medicine – I assume) this happens. A particularly difficult patient walks in, presenting with something you’ve never seen before. Or perhaps they [...]
Continue reading...As a practitioner of Chinese medicine, my developmental trajectory has been… interesting. Because I was in higher education for the better part of a decade before starting medical school, I started a little burnt out. However, the enthusiasm I had for this new venture powered me through my first year with no problem. At the [...]
Continue reading...Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:20 — 135.8MB) Interview with Laurie Ayers, LAc (UK) I’m happy to welcome Laurie Ayers to the Deepest Health podcast. Laurie is a rising star in the field of Chinese medicine whom I met through his involvement with the Institute of Classics in East Asian Medicine (ICEAM). [...]
Continue reading...The most difficult thing I have yet encountered in my professional life in Chinese medicine is not helping patients with illness. It is not wrangling with insurance companies. It’s not even keeping a clinic thriving in a highly saturated market. All of these things are comparatively easy, and less important, than the one thing that [...]
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