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
- 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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