When I studied Chinese in Taiwan, I always recorded my classes into a little MP3 player. I found that usually I needed to listen to the recording about three times before I really heard and understood everything the teacher said. All of Huang’s lectures in October were recorded for the same reason. There is always…
Category Archives: Formulas
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…
Abdominal Diagnosis, part two
It takes practice this abdominal diagnosis method. It is not just a matter of feeling where there is tension, or where the patient experiences discomfort. Getting a sense of how differences in skin, moisture, innate muscular tension, where there is fullness, and how emptiness can be easily not found are all part of the process….
Abdominal Diagnosis
It is not uncommon in the practice of acupuncture to use palpation as a method of gathering information to help one decide on a course of treatment. In herbal medicine, this has been a much less used method. At least here in the United States. When living in Taiwan, I came across a book called…
It is not just for the common cold
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,…