Tang Ye Jing: The Medicine of Flavors
With Guest: Joshua Park
Episode Qi085
- The Tang Ye Jing is a lost classic that shows up in the fragments of other works
- Looking at herbs from a five-phase perspective that is different from what we learned in school
- Discussion of how Shao Yao is an “earth of metal” herb
- Su Wen Chapter 22 for flavors and associations
- Understanding the correspondence between herbs from the Tang Ye Jing perspective gives another way of understanding how formulas and individual medicinals work
- The Tang Ye Jing and Shang Han Lun help us to marry together the five phases with six confirmation perspective
- Using the filters of proper physiology and pathology
- Open, close, pivot helps us to understand the proper functioning of the six confirmations
My journey into Chinese Medicine began with a fascination with the Yi Jing and Daoist philosophy. When I discovered that these ancient principles could be practically applied to alleviate human suffering, I realized I had found both not only a career, but my life's calling.
Foundations of Theory for Ancient Chinese Medicine by Dr. Liu Guohui – This is an excellent foundational text for Jing Fang/Classical Herbalism. Among a plethora of both scholarly and clinical insights, there is a chapter on the Tang Ye Jing and other Daoist influences on Zhang Zhongjing.
Chinese Medicine Central – A fantastic website run by Eric Grey, L.Ac, which hosts both my ongoing Tang Ye Jing series and a number of great resources for practitioners. There's a handy visual aid for the Tang Ye Jing material available here.
Foundations of Theory for Ancient Chinese Medicine by Dr. Liu Guohui – This is an excellent foundational text for Jing Fang/Classical Herbalism. Among a plethora of both scholarly and clinical insights, there is a chapter on the Tang Ye Jing and other Daoist influences on Zhang Zhongjing.
