Most Westerner’s exposure to the Shang Han Lun is that is an an old book that has something to do with the common cold, and the various complications that result. We get a smattering of it in acupuncture school, but it is a book that really has nothing to do with acupuncture. It does, however,…
Monthly Archives: April 2007
Sweatless gui zhi types?
I did not expect so many comments so quickly. If this continues I will have to look into setting up a discussion forum on this site as well.I love going to Chengdu for the ma-la hotpot, cheap foot massage, and teahouses. I also love to visit there because I get to hang out with Eran…
Constitution and Terrain
Will Cooper writes: “By the presentation, prescribe the herbs” as being the rationale and foundation of Dr. Huang’s approach to treatment. Dr. Huang obviously has decided for himself what is meant by “presentation”, but do we know what the original author meant by that use of the word? In a sense, yes, it is “root.”…
Welcome to Classic Formulas
It is not uncommon in life that failure opens a gate that otherwise would not have appeared. I’d gone to Beijing in the fall of 2002 to study with a Shang Han Lun doctor I’d been introduced to, but my Chinese just was not yet up to the task. It took jaw grinding days to…