One of the first concepts we hear upon walking through the gate of Chinese medicine is that of excess and deficiency (xu虛 & shi實). Deceptively simple at first glance, this is one of the foundations of accurate diagnosis that tends to become more slippery as time goes on and we see patients in the clinic…
Category Archives: Clinical practice
Constitution and Formula Scope
Perhaps practicing medicine is much like forest management, fiddling around with the economy of a large developed country, or arranging a 100 table banquet. There are individual issues; the overpopulation of a certain insect, corruption in a key business sector, unrelenting fever, or who should sit next to who. There are hot spot issues, the…
Why differentiate constitution?
. . I will be taking a group to Nanjing next month to study with Dr. Huang. To prepare and brush up my Chinese I’m going over his lecture notes. They are a treasure trove of clinical common sense and revelation. They also help to illuminate why the Gui Zhi Fu Ling Wan I gave…
Treat the presentation
This entry is a guest post from Australia’s Greg Bantick. It is a case study that reminds us how easy it is to dream into what we think our patients think and feel and how stepping back and getting a clear view their presentation can help to leverage their innate resources and healing process. *******************…
What Chinese doctors need to know
Every now and then I like to pull something off my Chinese shelf and give it a read. Sometimes I just open to a page and start reading, sometimes I browse the table of contents for some inspiration on a challenging clinical case. Today, it was the former motivation and as I was feeling a…
Dr Jiang’s thoughts on treating the exterior
Like so many foreigners, soon after I first got to Taiwan I experienced the joy of illness in a strange land. The lungs are my weak organ system, and given the Brillo pad atmosphere of Taipei, intensely cold AC mixed with murky heat and subtropic humidity, and stress of calling a very foreign country “home”…
Ten Key- Herb Index
Eastland Press just released an herb index to The 10 Key Formula Families in Chinese Medicine as a PDF. For those of you that would like a copy you can either go to Eastland’s site and get a copy, or simply click HERE to download a copy. I am considering adding a discussion forum to…
10 Key Formula Families
It has been a long journey and I am delighted to share the news that The 10 Key Formula Families in Chinese Medicine is now available. You will be able to find it at the usual outlets, and of course from Eastland Press. To help celebrate the occasion Eastland Press is offering a discount on…