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Hiding in Plain Sight: An Appreciation of Zeng Ye Tang
I’m offering it on the new membership only learning platform White Pine Circle. This is an outgrowth of Sharon Weizenbaum’s White Pine Graduate Mentorship program and is a rich resource for all students of East Asian Medicine. Learn at your own pace or join a course. Take advantage of the free lectures. A special area of […]
Chinese Herbal Strategies for Treating Corona Virus
I can hardly believe that I hosted a Facebook Live lecture on 2/5/20. The focus was on what we knew then about the staging and treatment of Corona Virus using Chinese herbal medicine. Now, 7 whole months later, we’ve learned so much more.
TCM Kindergarden: Ban Xia and Chen Pi
We had an Instagram- Facebook Contest a few weeks ago. I posted a query about Ban Xia and Chen Pi. How many formulas can you name with these two herbs, who are great friends. My first herb teacher taught that ban xia and chen pi were the best pair for anything with […]
TCM Kindergarten: Jie Geng and Zhi Ke. An amazing pair to open the chest
How do we know for sure what patterns a formula treats? By understanding its construction. All formulas contain a specific architecture for herbal relationships based on actions and flavors. Learning to see these pairs ( and sometimes triplets) helps us to easily gain insight into what’s happening inside an herbal formula. Yesterday I did a […]