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6 Ways for Chinese medicine students and practitioners to learn lifestyle counseling

on 08/08/2007 by Eric Grey in Community and Cultivation

After yesterday’s introductory post about Chinese dietary therapy and lifestyle counseling as one of the profession’s available modalities, I got to thinking about the difficulty of lifestyle counseling. It is undoubtedly an important part of our medicine – it’s in the Classics! The Neijing began this proud tradition in Chinese medicine when discussing the way [...]

Chinese medicine and the emotions: what does the Neijing say?

on 08/06/2007 by Eric Grey in Foundational Science

One of my professors, whom I admire very much, has a bit of a reputation at school for denigrating the focus of many Chinese medicine students and practitioners on emotional causes of disease. What I think I understand him to mean is that the involvement of emotions in the average patient is overemphasized in some [...]

Chinese herb of the week – Qualities and uses of Mu Zei

on 08/03/2007 by Eric Grey in Acupuncture, Herbs & Other modalities

The herb this week is an oddity. It isn’t found in many formulas, and I have never seen it used in the school clinic medicinary. Why review it? I did a paper on it last year because it’s something I see around me frequently here in Oregon and I always wondered whether it was medicinal. [...]

9 enlightening things I learned about the Pericardium from the Chinese organ clock

on 08/03/2007 by Eric Grey in Foundational Science

Today’s post will cover some of what I’ve learned about the Pericardium organ system from studying the symbolic information available through the Chinese organ clock and etymological investigation of characters associated with Pericardium. What you will find below is just a fraction of the information that I learned about the Pericardium under the masterful tutelage [...]

What everyone should know about the perils of reading too much

on 08/01/2007 by Eric Grey in Study and Scholarship

Although the following article is geared specifically towards people who are learning Chinese medicine, I believe the principle applies to learners of any practice. Let me know in the comments if you disagree! For today’s focus on the profession of Chinese medicine, I thought I would address a common problem I have struggled with in [...]

See how easily you can use 5 element theory to eat optimally

on 07/31/2007 by Eric Grey in Acupuncture, Herbs & Other modalities

I’ve been seeing quite a few articles about balancing color in one’s diet as a way to eat well. These articles are always so beautiful – illustrated with plenty of photos of gorgeous blueberries, tantalizing tomatoes and the like. Further, the concept of choosing your food by color is an attractive one, simple and engaging [...]