By Lonny S. Jarrett & Z’ev Rosenberg Introduction For Chinese medicine (CM) in America today it is the best of times and, it is the worst of times. On the one hand, CM is increasingly accepted, and practitioners are finding opportunities to work in more venues than ever before. On the other hand, the cost [...]
These journal entries were written in the heart of deep winter, on the edge of a new calendar year. Click on the first image and begin reading when it pops up in the lightbox. Enjoy!
This year marks my 30th year in full-time practice as a Chinese medical practitioner (医生 yi sheng), and my sixtieth birthday will be in the spring. So it seems like an ideal time to contemplate medical practice and where we stand in our emerging field. I have some thoughts about where I'd like to see [...]
“Yi zhe li ye” ( 医者理也), medicine is a principle, if the principle is transparent, the heart is luminous/ming 明 . Those who want to learn the spirit of Bian Que must be clear about principle, and those who want to clarify the principle must search in the classics, and only after draw from the [...]
It can be difficult to practice Chinese medicine in a Western society, because it cannot be simply grafted onto a different culture or medical system. Studying Chinese medicine means immersion in the world view and historical source texts that reveal the theoretical foundations of the subject. Chinese medicine has a unique view of the phenomenal [...]