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Tag: Organ systems
Large Intestine symbolism using the Chinese medicine organ clock – 2/2
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,…
Chinese organ clock symbolism related to the Large Intestine – Part 1/2
This post is part of a group 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, or “holomap.” As always, this information comes from my distillation of what my…
9 Enlightening Things I Learned About the Pericardium from the Chinese Organ Clock
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 from Dr. Heiner Fruehauf….
7 Unique Facets of Classical Chinese organ systems
I’d like to piggyback off of the organ clock post and introduce the Chinese medicine theory of organs in a little more depth. Why should we pay attention to an alternative way of looking at the body – hasn’t conventional biomedicine (aka Western medicine) figured it all out? There are many ways of categorizing the…