Guest guest Posted June 13, 2003 Report Share Posted June 13, 2003 Hi Zev, thank you for your reply, i can see the point you are making, how it would be a shame to ignore a large part of tcm. what i am trying to do is to find a way how i can use herbs alongside my way of practising acupuncture. I am not really looking for the most spiritual type of acupuncture but for treatments that work. I have found that to treat according to the seasons and with the client's specific constitution according to the stems and branches in mind works very well for me. This is something i really enjoy within chinese medicine, its subtlety and complexity and its being deeply in tune with our surroundings and time. Love from bea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 13, 2003 Report Share Posted June 13, 2003 Dear Bea, There is a way to practice Chinese herbal medicine in tune with seasons, stems and branches, etc. Li Dong-yuan is one of the great Jin-Yuan masters who practiced both herbal medicine and acupuncture using stems and branches, seasonal considerations, AND five phases. You can find some of this material in the English translation of " Treatise on the Spleen and Stomach " from Blue Poppy Press. My teacher Michael Broffman also builds his herb prescriptions on seasonal, constitutional, stem-branch considerations, time of day, etc. This is definitely a part of Chinese medicine, but not taught as part of the mainstream cirriculi. Did you check out Jeremy Ross' website yet? All the best, On Friday, June 13, 2003, at 08:57 AM, beaerler wrote: > Hi Zev, thank you for your reply, i can see the point you are making, > how it > would be a shame to ignore a large part of tcm. what i am trying to do > is to > find a way how i can use herbs alongside my way of practising > acupuncture. I am > not really looking for the most spiritual type of acupuncture but for > treatments that work. I have found that to treat according to the > seasons and with > the client's specific constitution according to the stems and branches > in mind > works very well for me. This is something i really enjoy within chinese > medicine, its subtlety and complexity and its being deeply in tune > with our > surroundings and time. Love from bea. > <image.tiff> > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 25, 2003 Report Share Posted June 25, 2003 Hi Z'ev, thanx for your reply, sorry for the delay, been away. Your e mail gave me plenty to think about. I'm glad to find herbal practitioners working in this way. I haven't looked at J. Ross website, but will do, also will try to find out more. Thanx very much, love from Bea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 8, 2003 Report Share Posted August 8, 2003 Dear TCM group, Thanks for the great dialog. I'm wondering what pulse positions different practicioners use for diagnosis. I've been using one system but have run across at least one other. Lisa Attachment: vcard [not shown] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 8, 2003 Report Share Posted August 8, 2003 Dear TCM group,Thanks for the great dialog. I'm wondering what pulse positions differentpracticioners use for diagnosis. I've been using one system but have run across atleast one other.Lisageo> Lisa, there are perhaps hundreds of different types of eastern pulsology. Among them the two depth, three depth, five depth, eight depth. Different schools use different positions to access the same organ. It sounds paradoxical but it is not really. Some systems gauge organs, others gauge Officials (the whole function complex), some are quite elaborated and detailed like the "modern" Hammer and Shen system that considers the main positions and many other auxiliary positions that are located proximal/distal/medial/lateral to the main ones. So... in fact there is a whole universe of pulse taking systems out there. Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indian, etc... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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