322 Alchemy of the Organs • Peter Firebrace
Alchemy Li Shi Zhen and Sun Si Miao, they shared an interest in alchemy. Often enough in our clinical work, patients will describe what happened with them as being magical, but as practitioners we know its not magic, its medicine. But it’s a medicine that works outside the...
321 Continuity and Change Within the Tradition of Chinese medicine • Volker Scheid
Philosophy Chinese medicine looks to the perspectives of the past to understand the unfolding present. And for sure, there are threads of connection and perspective that come down to us through the curious tides of history. At the same time, there is this unique moment. What we...
320 What I Learned in the Last Year From Teaching • Deborah Woolf
Cosmology I still remember the moment when I realized that the character for Listen in traditional written Chinese was composed of the characters for Ears, Eyes, and Heart. Twenty two little strokes that unambiguously describe what is required to genuinely listen. Deborah Woolf...
315 History Series: Importance of Structure, and the Freedom That Comes From It • John Myerson
History Series What you do you if you’re interested in learning and practicing acupuncture, but there are no schools, standards or licensure?You built it yourself; with help of other spirited colleagues. In this conversation with John Myerson we go back to the days when acupuncture...