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The relational method of learning Chinese herbs : herb families

on 06/08/2010 by Eric Grey in Acupuncture, Herbs & Other modalities

This is another repost of archived content. In this case, it relates closely to the type of information I work with when teaching the relational herb method. This is actually more advanced stuff – the kind of thing we dig into during the second stage of the training. But, I thought folks might like to [...]

Fuzi : Song dynasty travelogue, Part II (trans. Heiner Fruehauf)

on 04/28/2010 by Eric Grey in Acupuncture, Herbs & Other modalities

Here is the remainder of the Song dynasty travelogue about Fuzi, translated by Heiner Fruehauf. I hope you have enjoyed this exclusive translation. You might want to pop over to the Classical Pearls Facebook page to discuss this article, and Fuzi in general. I’ll see you there, or in the comments on this post. head [...]

Fuzi : exploration of the growing regions and conditions of aconite

on 04/23/2010 by Eric Grey in Acupuncture, Herbs & Other modalities

Many of you may know that I work with Heiner Fruehauf, who was one of the founders of the Classical Chinese Medicine program at NCNM. He still teaches there, but has several other projects as well. Two are accessible online: Classicalchinesemedicine.org : a fantastic educational resource for people interested in the roots of Chinese medicine. [...]

Frustrations as a practitioner and lifelong student of Chinese medicine

on 03/07/2010 by Eric Grey in Study and Scholarship

I’ve been working with students explicitly for about a year now, teaching at NCNM. I think I will be continuing to do this, as the activity suits me and it also forces me to keep studying. I find that I want to teach about learning a lot, even though I do like teaching about herbs [...]

Learning classical Chinese is foundational – an interview with Rick Goodman

on 12/01/2009 by Eric Grey in Study and Scholarship

As I’m working on some of the foundational materials for the upcoming Shennong Relational Herb Learning course, I’m revisiting some material from classical Chinese medicine texts that I don’t know particularly well. It’s prompted me to get out my Big Chinese-English Dictionary and start slogging through the tedious process of translating passages when you’re not fluent [...]