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5 things I do daily to learn Chinese medicine more thoroughly

on 02/25/2012 by Eric Grey in Study and Scholarship

The most difficult thing I have yet encountered in my professional life in Chinese medicine is not helping patients with illness. It is not wrangling with insurance companies. It’s not even keeping a clinic thriving in a highly saturated market. All of these things are comparatively easy, and less important, than the one thing that [...]

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 [...]

The sages of Chinese medicine stood facing South

on 11/03/2009 by Eric Grey in Study and Scholarship

I hope this reflection will be useful to all those Chinese medicine students out there who struggle with figuring out what TYPE of Chinese medicine to practice… Today, on a walk I was taught an important lesson by some late migrating geese. In the late summer and autumn, we get a whole lot of geese [...]

Setting yourself up for learning success : First, know thyself

on 09/01/2009 by Eric Grey in Study and Scholarship

In my last article, I mentioned my idea that the best way to learn Chinese herbs is through what I’m calling the “relational method.” Before we can dive headlong into the process I am describing, we need to prepare some ground. Today, I want to talk a little about learning in general, relationship styles and [...]

A relational method of learning Chinese herbs

on 08/28/2009 by Eric Grey in Study and Scholarship

Update : This post formed the beginning thoughts of what eventually became the Shennong Relational Herb Learning Method. If you think you might be interested in taking a course that tackles what’s below – why don’t you consider signing up for the interest list? You’ll get the free Shennong Formula for your troubles… Herbs are [...]