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		<title>Rules of Thumb</title>
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Rules of thumb are useful. Being able discern a constitutional type is a broad brushstroke rule of thumb. We can effectively condense experience, and it is often a shortcut to where we are headed. Except for when it is not.
I was working through the diagnosis on a young woman recently and thought I had immediately [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Treating cold damage</title>
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This blog usually features translations, case studies, or clinical observations into the workings of Chinese herbal medicine. Today’s post is a bit different. It is a more personal story; my story of the past 24 hours, and an insight into the interaction of wei and xie qi (衛和邪氣).
It started a couple days ago with a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The lighter side of translation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We all know that translation is rarely a well balanced algebraic equation. Norms, habit, personal preference and worldview all play a role in how meaning crosses between language and culture.

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		<title>Thoughts on focal distention</title>
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Focal distention, golmus, pi, call it what you will, the name is not nearly as important as the illness process that it describes. This is one of those concepts upon which there is a wealth of thought and disagreement. Some say it is a sensation the patient has, others say it is the doctor that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Discovery</title>
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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not “Eureka!”, but “That’s funny…”
~Isaac Asimov
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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 a patient has to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Huang Qi Constitution revisited</title>
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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&#8217;s recent lectures. This prompted a little email discussion with him about how his thinking has changed since the original publishing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pleco for iPhone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;ve been using this software as part of the beta testing program for the past six weeks. It is brilliant.
If you have an iPhone (or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some clinical observations from Nanjing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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.
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Reading the Ten Key Formula Families I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reading between the lines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a section in Comparing Formula Presentations: Five Steps to Differential Diagnosis in the Treatment of Cold Damage on formulas, presentation, and illness. Unlike the way Huang writes, the author of this book writes in a condensed, specific fashion and is very clear about where within the six warp the illness is located. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Navigating the levels</title>
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If you are regular reader of classicformulas.com then you have a pretty good idea of the value that Dr. Huang places on constitution, formula presentation, illness and the interaction between them. If you have worked with these methods yourself in the clinic, it is likely that it has at times sharpened your clinical eye and [...]]]></description>
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