http://classicformulas.com Classic Formulas Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:32:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We know from the texture of our lives that the Chinese yin/yang theory of opposites attracting and mutually transforming into one another is one of the ways that life grows, unfolds, and transforms. It is somehow comforting to know that moments of despair will in time tranform, and that ... http://classicformulas.com/2008/08/28/opposites-inform/ 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. ... http://classicformulas.com/2008/07/03/gui-zhi-or-huang-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, ... http://classicformulas.com/2007/12/16/plum-pit-qi/ 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 ... http://classicformulas.com/2007/12/12/jade-windscreen/ 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 ... http://classicformulas.com/2007/12/08/cinnamon-is-the-chinese-aspirin/ 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 ... http://classicformulas.com/2007/12/03/%e5%8d%8a%e5%a4%8f%e9%ab%94%e8%b3%aa/ Six months of planning. Uncountable hours of preparation. Like cultivating a soil that will bring forth a burst of brilliance and flower, this has been my life this past year.The first international Classic Formula class in Nanjing with Dr Huang has wound its course. Nourishing as a long cooked soup, ... http://classicformulas.com/2007/10/25/first-international-classic-formulas-class/ Sharon Weizenbaum who is one of the members of the group that is going to Nanjing this fall to study the classical formulas with Doctor Huang, has put together a nice little study guide to the major formulas that we will be studying over there. You can find it here. In addition ... http://classicformulas.com/2007/08/30/familiarity-breeds-agility/ Who knows why some computers just will not talk to each other. A few of you who are going on the Nanjing trip have had trouble with certain .pdf files going through the email. Here they are: Chinese Visa Application Form Simple Guide to Studying Medicine in China http://classicformulas.com/2007/08/19/when-email-fails/ If you are a reader of The Lantern, then you perhaps have already seen this interview with Dr. Huang. If you are not a reader of The Lantern, and you are the kind of practitioner that would rather read the Classics, than sift through modern research. If you are the ... http://classicformulas.com/2007/08/02/afternoon-tea-with-huang-huang/