I love the classical texts of Chinese medicine. Whenever I get a chance, I read through the translations I have on hand. When I run into a sticky clinical issue, and a mentor isn’t available for conversation, I go to the texts. This love was cultivated in me during my years at NCNM, of course. [...]
Continue reading...Imagine yourself standing at the edge of a body of water. Imagine that your feet are bare, and the eddies or waves push the smallest bit of water between your toes. Even from this vantage point, you can feel the vastness of the water, its connection to every other body of water that there is. [...]
Continue reading...We began by breathing as newborn babies screaming our lungs out leaping into air and gravity. Previously surrounded supported filled and floating in fluid from the North. Our kidney cold water released, heading East we ring in Spring beginning the lunar year. Our first breath brings the first birth of the ten thousand things and [...]
Continue reading...Note from the author, Mauricio. Kimberly Brown, a fellow contributor to Deepest Health, recently reviewed a book I’d been meaning to read for a while now, Zhang Yanhua’s Transforming Emotions with Chinese Medicine. I was inspired to pick it up from the shelf and am now halfway through the book. I’m really excited about some [...]
Continue reading...We learn and practice a holistic, integrated medicine. Yet, when we try to learn how we should manage our Chinese medicine clinics, we find fragmented knowledge and rubrics that don’t really resonate. It’s tough out there, and I find a lot of my colleagues end up overwhelmed, unhappy and uninspired. While there are other business [...]
Continue reading...I’m going to let you in on a little secret. I’m a huge dork. I geek out about Chinese medicine – herbs in particular – yes. But, maybe even more frequently – and certainly for a longer period of time – I’ve been geeking out about a field of interrelated skills and knowledge-bases that I [...]
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