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On Dosing
(With Cinzia Scorzon MSc) Some time ago, in what now seems the distant past, we went on a trip through the Kimberley, a remote and...
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2 days ago9 min read
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Enlightened Chinese medical practice: A case study from contemporary China
While researching my next book, I discovered an intriguing case study by Dr. Gao Jianzhong 高建忠, who works at a hospital affiliated to the...
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Dec 5, 202410 min read
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Dao on Wheels: Good knowing, forming one body with the ten-thousand things, and winning a sprint in the Tour de France (Embodiment and effective action in Chinese medicine)
Whether as a cyclist, a practitioner of Chinese medicine, or a Neo-confucian scholar, the reason we are interested in discovering li 理,...
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Sep 12, 202410 min read
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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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Aug 3, 20249 min read
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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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May 5, 202412 min read
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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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Apr 17, 20249 min read
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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...
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Aug 27, 20236 min read
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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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Oct 19, 20221 min read
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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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Oct 2, 20227 min read
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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...
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Jul 6, 20214 min read
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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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May 18, 202113 min read
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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...
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Nov 9, 202013 min read
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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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Oct 21, 202011 min read
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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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Jun 2, 20208 min read
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