This is it. It’s the end of the road– this road. This journey of words and images, ruminations on medicine, skilled words from other people in other languages about how Chinese medicine unfolds in the clinic, and stories from other practitioners about how to help people heal. This is the end of this chapter. And…
As a practitioner of Chinese medicine and member of the classicformulas.com community I have some exciting news to share about changes afoot that will dramatically transform and add to the content this web site. This site originated as a blog whose focus was to share some of the pre-publication material from Doctor Huang Huang’s “Ten…
About this project Walk into any reasonably sized bookstore in China and you will find shelves full of the experience of Chinese medicine doctors. Case studies are the bones and blood of furthering one’s skill as a doctor. We all gain a foundation, a skeletal structure from our textbooks and first years in medical school….
If you drift on over to the Pleco website you will see that as of December 18th the new Pleco dictionary for the iPhone will be available at the App Store. I’ve been using this software as part of the beta testing program for the past six weeks. It is brilliant. If you have an…
If any of you have inclination toward reading Chinese, then you probably are familiar with Pleco software. Yes, that is their logo on the iPhone app in the picture. No, it is not yet available. But, from participating in the beta-test I can tell you that if you have an iPhone in your pocket, and…
There is a great saying in Chinese 一步一步來; keep putting one foot in front of the other. It is good advice for any endeavor, but especially apropos for those projects that span years, or for journeys where the destination can barely be imagined, let alone seen, from the point of departure. Five years ago The Ten Key Formula Families…
It is not uncommon in life that failure opens a gate that otherwise would not have appeared. I’d gone to Beijing in the fall of 2002 to study with a Shang Han Lun doctor I’d been introduced to, but my Chinese just was not yet up to the task. It took jaw grinding days to…