Monthly Archives: December 2009

Discovery

. The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not “Eureka!”, but “That’s funny…” ~Isaac Asimov . We have these kinds of opportunities all the time in our clinical work. The pulse that does not feel quite like any pulse we have felt before. The odd reaction…

Huang Qi Constitution revisited

One of our astute readers pointed out some discrepancies between the description of the astragalus constitution as it is written in The 10 Key Formula Families, and how it was presented in one of Huang’s recent lectures. This prompted a little email discussion with him about how his thinking has changed since the original publishing…

Pleco for iPhone

If you drift on over to the Pleco website you will see that as of December 18th the new Pleco dictionary for the iPhone will be available at the App Store. I’ve been using this software as part of the beta testing program for the past six weeks. It is brilliant. If you have an…

Some clinical observations from Nanjing

Today we have another guest post from a member of the group that journeyed to Nanjing this past November to study jing fang with Dr. Huang. Bernd Schleifer is a practitioner from Munich who has an active practice, and weak spot for good books on medicine written in Chinese. ************************************* Reading the Ten Key Formula…