While these two herbs lives pages and pages away from each other in the materia medica, in practice patients with signs of the cinnamon twig and astragulas presentations are often puzzlingly similar. Both have signs of spontaneous sweating, both have moist skin, and an aversion to wind will dog both types. Likewise, there often are…
Category Archives: Constitutional types
Plum Pit Qi
. . We learn about in our Chinese medicine textbooks, a certain kind of insubstantial mix of phlegm and qi that collects in the throat… 咽喉異物感Plum Pit Qi. It is a pretty little diagnosis. Sounds very….Asian…Sounds very beautiful, and somehow exotic, but I have yet to have have a patient Western, or Asian, walk into…
Jade Windscreen
We learned this in our first quarter of Chinese medicine school, and if you read through the advertisements and support materials for any of the multitude of herbal products you will see this…… Jade Windscreen is for building the immune systems in those who easily get colds. I’m one of those people.I’ve easily gotten colds…
Ban Xia Constitution
In Chinese medicine school we learned that ban xia is a premier herb for dispersing phlegm, a great medicinal for those kinds of people that were soggy and damp, phlegmy and with the accompanying lethargy that comes from fluids gone rubbery with stagnation.But, none of my books in school made mention of the constitutional type…
Aversion to Cold
Through the miracle of MP3, I’ve been having discussions with Dr. Huang on my morning walks to work. Actually, re-listening to the discussions we had in Nanjing. But, since words in Chinese have this sneaky way of going transparently through my ears when engaged in thinking and making sense, listening again to our conversations yields…
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.”…