People develop progressive and degenerative diseases from stagnations that accumulate within the embodied spirit. We can tolerate those accumulations for some time, but eventually they impede or obstruct “normal” physiological process. Each embodied spirit is provided with an amazingly effective collection of “storage reservoirs” that allow them to adapt and adjust to pathogenic stagnations. (Technically, … Continue reading “The Archeology of Disease”
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- Re-framing Health Care for Society
- The Art of Acupuncture (and CM)
- The Spirit of the Neijing
- The Theory and Practice of Disease Reversion (Accumulation Theory)
The conceptual model of physical “reality” articulated by modern scientific medicine is powerful and compelling. It appeals to our naïve experience of living in, and learning to manipulate, a mechanistic physical world that submits to our control according to fixed “laws of nature.” The ideas of scientific medicine are deeply satisfying to many, especially relative … Continue reading “Is it a Fairy Tale?”
Ms. C. is a thirty-seven year old woman, who called me about four months ago seeking relief from persistent pain and dysfunction of her right hand, which made her work difficult. She came for an appointment, and reported having received treatment for neck pain and nerve root impingement causing pain and dysfunction of the arm … Continue reading “When is a “Cold” not Just a Cold?”
Don’t Shoot the Messenger Symptoms are the embodied spirit’s (jīngshén (精神)) gesture to communicate its distress. They are intended to get the individual to focus his or her conscious awareness toward discerning the nature and causes of that distress. Though symptoms seem to be afflictions (to the personality), they are NOT themselves the problem. They … Continue reading “Indicator Symptoms: A Patient’s Best Friend”