312 Nature in Medicine • Ed Neal
Cosmology East Asian medicine is a nature based medicine. And nature… nature is weird, and mysterious. And as much as we like to come up with “Laws of Nature” they are more like approximations. Useful for sure. But you’re asking for trouble if you confuse the map with the...
300 Clinician’s Guide to the Shang Han Lun • Dr Shou-Chun Ma & Dan Bensky
Herbal Medicine Medicine is always a discussion, Be it between practitioner and patient, between colleagues talking shop, or through the stream of history and commentary that accompany the classics of Chinese medicine. In this conversation with Dr. Shou-Chun Ma and Dan Bensky we...
278 Digging the Earthly Branches • Deborah Woolf
Cosmology Heaven and Earth, the creative and the created, micro and macrocosm. All ways of saying there is a reality we inhabit, and beyond that a lot of mystery. And mystery is something us humans have, at best, an ambivalent relationship with. We seek to find some sense of...
271 Cycles, Nodes and the Spaces in the Seasons • Sheri Lee
Cosmology Life is built on rhythms, the natural world is constantly in a state of transformation. A cyclical flow of growth and decline—manifested in the turning of the seasons, waxing and waning of the moon, and the oscillation of day and night. The intertwined correspondences...