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 [...]
Continue reading...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 [...]
Continue reading...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 [...]
Continue reading...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 [...]
Continue reading...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 [...]
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