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Chinese medicine, the Earth and the Center

on 08/25/2008 by Eric Grey in Foundational Science

When talking about the five elements, particularly as applied to the organ systems of Chinese medicine, it’s easy to find an angle from which to proclaim the supremacy of any of the elements. Fire gets four organs, for instance, one of those being the Emperor – surely it’s the most important. Water, on the other [...]

How the Chinese organ clock yields a more nuanced view of the Heart

on 08/21/2008 by Eric Grey in Foundational Science

Here I will present a basic overview of TCM information concerning the Heart and then add a layer of information gleaned from the Organ clock (a more CCM way of looking at things). I want to do this to demonstrate how the Classical approach yields a more nuanced view than the straight organ-based TCM approach [...]

Learning about the Large Intestine using the Chinese Organ Clock, Part II

on 07/31/2008 by Eric Grey in Foundational Science

In the first part of this post on the Large Intestine organ system, we discussed some basic information including: the name and official related to LI, the five element and six conformation designation and more. In this post, I’d like to dig a little deeper into the symbolism of this important organ system. In particular, [...]

Learning about the Large Intestine through the Chinese medicine organ clock, Part I

on 07/30/2008 by Eric Grey in Foundational Science

This post is part of a series of articles discussing the symbolism of the organ systems of Chinese Medicine. To help dig into the rich symbolism of the way that Chinese medicine describes the body, I am using the Chinese organ clock. As always, this information comes from my distillation of what my teachers have [...]

Book review: Clinical Handbook of Internal Medicine (Vol 1)

on 07/10/2008 by Eric Grey in Foundational Science

I have been using the first two volumes of Maclean’s Clinical Handbook of Internal Medicine for a couple of years, now. I find them to be the most useful basic TCM pathology texts available and want to share, briefly, my reasons. General Information This text is part of a series that, apparently, will include more [...]

Chinese medicine and cancer : Introduction

on 07/09/2008 by Eric Grey in Foundational Science

One of the things I would like to do as a physician is help people who have various types of cancer. I realize that even this statement will be regarded by some as problematic. Some say that Chinese medicine doesn’t recognize “cancer” as such and that Chinese medicine physicians shouldn’t “specialize” in treating any particular [...]