The dao on wheels: Explaining Chinese thinking through cycling
Chinese medicine and cycling are two of the passions of my life. I have practiced Chinese medicine for over four decades now, and cycled...
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jiangxide1
- May 5
- 12 min
How to become a sage, and making the best of the life one has (Learning from Shao Yong, Part 2)
Shao Yong’s strange claims about the gallbladder storing the po souls and the bladder generating the blood have intrigued our examiners....
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jiangxide1
- Apr 17
- 9 min
The gallbladder stores the po souls, and the urinary bladder produces the blood (Learning from Shao Yong, Part 1)
Imagine a student at a Chinese medicine college giving the following answer when questioned during their final year oral exam as to what...
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jiangxide1
- Aug 27, 2023
- 6 min
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...
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jiangxide1
- Oct 19, 2022
- 1 min
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...
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jiangxide1
- Oct 2, 2022
- 7 min
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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jiangxide1
- Jul 6, 2021
- 4 min
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...
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jiangxide1
- May 18, 2021
- 13 min
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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jiangxide1
- Nov 9, 2020
- 13 min
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...
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jiangxide1
- Oct 21, 2020
- 11 min
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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jiangxide1
- Jun 2, 2020
- 8 min
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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