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Everything Can Be A Remedy

As practitioners of Chinese medicine we tend to focus on herbs, minerals and needles as the tools of our trade. Around this core of...

Chinese Medicine –The Unity of the Cosmos and Human Beings: A Conversation with Karin Bervoets

Last year Dr. Karin Bervoets, a former student of mine, invited me to participate in a project entitled "Life in Balance" curated by the...

Learning to Think like Ye Tianshi

Ye Tianshi 葉天士 (1664-1746) was one of the most famous and innovative physicians in the long history of Chinese medicine. Born into a...

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Slow Chinese Medicine: Twenty Years of Learning and Experimenting

Slow food is an organisation founded in Italy in 1986 as an alternative to everything that fast food stands for. It focuses on quality...

Monk Yaodi and the Dao of Chinese Medicine

What is the dao 道 of medicine: its knowledge of illness and the body; the ability of physicians to exercise clinical judgement; its store...

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Come on baby light my fire: a multilogue

Imagine the fourteenth century physician Zhu Danxi 朱丹溪 (1281-1358) beamed into the late 1960s by Scotty from Starship Enterprise. Landing...

Yun Tieqiao and the disappearance of the body from Chinese medicine

1922 was a most important year in the history of Chinese medicine even if the importance of that historical moment has largely been...

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History and Mythology: Thoughts on the Japanese Influence on jingfang Style Chinese Medicine

I explore t difference between mythology and history by examining the influence of Japanese kampo on contemporary jingfang Chinese medicine

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