Deepest Health: Exploring Classical Chinese Medicine 
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Part 2 – The First Two Hurdles to Successful Divination in the Clinic
Welcome to the second installment of this article series on Divination in Clinical Practice. If you’re interested in reading the first part – all you have to do is click this link.
Today we’ve got a little double-header.
Last time we introduced the idea that divination, and in particular the Yijing, might be useful in the clinic. Not just useful, in fact, but potent and transformative, as the oracle itself suggested when we asked the Yi about its own clinical potential (Hexagrams 31 and 49).
However, there are some hurdles standing b...
Source: Deepest Health: Exploring Classical Chinese Medicine - January 30, 2015 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Authors: Jonathan Edwards Tags: Acupuncture, Herbs & Other modalities Source Type: blogs
The Yijing in Chinese Medicine Clinical Practice – Part 1
Editor’s Note : This is the first in a series of posts by Jonathan Edwards about the use of the Yijing (I Ching) in Chinese medicine clinical practice. A new topic for the site – it should be an interesting read!
Part 1: The Clinician’s Golden Compass
Welcome to the first in a series of articles on applying the Yijing in clinical practice. For those not familiar, the Yijing (or I Ching) is an ancient Chinese oracle, or system of divination, with close ties to Classical Chinese Medicine.
Speaking as it does in very compressed symbols, the oracle has a reputation for being hard to understand. That’s one of th...
Source: Deepest Health: Exploring Classical Chinese Medicine - January 23, 2015 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Authors: Jonathan Edwards Tags: Acupuncture, Herbs & Other modalities Source Type: blogs
Why I spend all my time up to my eyeballs in Chinese medicine
There is no doubt that I spend the majority of my time everyday thinking about, studying, using and generally drowning myself in Chinese medicine.
Don’t get me wrong – I do spend time and energy elsewhere. I love music. I garden. I hang out watching television and movies from time to time. I like to talk about the Portland food scene, and ethics and so on. But all of that just feeds my addiction to the universe of information I have devoted my life to – this particular way of looking at the earth, the heavens, and the human being in between.
I am particularly passionate about the ongoing work here at Chin...
Source: Deepest Health: Exploring Classical Chinese Medicine - January 19, 2015 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Authors: Eric Grey Tags: Community and Cultivation Source Type: blogs
Introducing Chinese Medicine Central (the evolution of Deepest Health)
I started Deepest Health in 2007 as a second year student at National College of Natural Medicine (NCNM). I am a person who learns by writing and by teaching, and a blog seemed an ideal way to do both, while also building a potential resource for patients.
As it developed, I realized that I wasn’t that interested in writing for patients (though I’ve warmed up to the idea in the last 5 years), but instead found real happiness in discussing various aspects of the medicine with my peers and with practitioners all over the world. After graduation, I decided to experiment with expanding my offerings to include cours...
Source: Deepest Health: Exploring Classical Chinese Medicine - January 5, 2015 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Authors: Eric Grey Tags: Community and Cultivation Source Type: blogs
Book Review: The Moon over Matsushima – an exhaustive look into moxibustion
Books about moxibustion are few and far between.
Up until very recently, I wasn’t aware of any books that covered the topic separately that weren’t just poor translations of Chinese clinical manuals. My dear friend and colleague, @bravethevoid, turned me on to “The Moon Over Matsushima”, Merlin Young’s incredibly refreshing, exhaustively researched, and inspiring take on moxibustion, and after considerable effort (keep reading), I was able to finish it. Here’s some of my thoughts on it, I hope they inspire you to read the book and milk it for all the practical hints and exhaustive knowle...
Source: Deepest Health: Exploring Classical Chinese Medicine - October 30, 2014 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Authors: Cintain 昆游龍 Tags: Acupuncture, Herbs & Other modalities Source Type: blogs
Lifelong learning in Chinese medicine – increasing flexibility and joy
As anybody who has read this blog for any period of time knows, I enjoy studying. As a student, I was always immersed in one book or another, or tasting herbs, or taking yet another extra-curricular seminar. Beyond that, I was always curious about expanding my study techniques in various ways including with technology and with my senses.
Since graduating, I’ve had a lot on my plate
More than I did as a student, by far. Running my practice (currently in a big growth spurt) and teaching herbs and business at NCNM have dominated my energy more than I imagined they would. These are all good things, of course, and have m...
Source: Deepest Health: Exploring Classical Chinese Medicine - October 16, 2014 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Authors: Eric Grey Tags: Study and Scholarship Source Type: blogs
Help support acupuncture clinical skill building and vital healthcare in Nepal!
Founder’s note: Hey folks, this post is from a NCNM graduate who is going to be participating in the Acupuncture Relief Project in Nepal. She asked that I help her drum up funding for her endeavor – a very worthy cause. She’s going to be contributing some content about the project and her experience, starting with this post. Please give to her cause, if you can, and tell your friends!
Dear Chinese Medicine Central Readers,
In early January 2015, I will leave my husband, two young children, a sweet German Shepherd and a cozy home.
I will load a backpack aboard a flight in Portland, Oregon that will ...
Source: Deepest Health: Exploring Classical Chinese Medicine - August 13, 2014 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Authors: Guest Author Tags: Community and Cultivation Foundational Science Source Type: blogs
Help support acupuncture clinical skill building and vital healthcare in Nepal!
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Source: Deepest Health: Exploring Classical Chinese Medicine - August 13, 2014 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Authors: Guest Author Tags: Community and Cultivation Foundational Science Source Type: blogs
On sickness and the power of Chinese herbal medicine
Founder’s Note : This is a guest post by third-year CCM student, Melinda Iglesias. Asalways, the guest posters love comments – so feel free to leave some below! I’m hoping to see more from Melinda in the future here on DH. In the meantime, you can find her on Twitter.
For three years prior to coming to school at NCNM, I managed a thriving acupuncture clinic. This experience was instructive and influential in my decision to study Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine. Throughout that time, I had the good fortune of witnessing first-hand scenarios ubiquitous to being a practitioner of Chinese medicine.
A favorit...
Source: Deepest Health: Exploring Classical Chinese Medicine - July 7, 2014 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Authors: Guest Author Tags: Acupuncture, Herbs & Other modalities Source Type: blogs
On sickness and the power of Chinese herbal medicine
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Source: Deepest Health: Exploring Classical Chinese Medicine - July 7, 2014 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Authors: Guest Author Tags: Acupuncture, Herbs & Other modalities Source Type: blogs
Softening in the Wild Heart of Medicine : Water
Founders note: This is the end of Jonathan Edward’s five inventive essays on the five phase elements. You can read about fire, earth, wood and metal. Please feel free to comment on any of these essays and start a conversation with the author, who just GRADUATED FROM NATIONAL COLLEGE OF NATURAL MEDICINE – CONGRATULATIONS, JONATHAN!
I’ve set myself up for it this time. What could I possibly have to say about water that you, fair reader, don’t already know?
(ohwaterwhispertome)
As if I have some special insight into this most ubiquitous of elements, the sine qua non of biological life–
(makemesoftlikey...
Source: Deepest Health: Exploring Classical Chinese Medicine - July 2, 2014 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Authors: Jonathan Edwards Tags: Foundational Science Source Type: blogs
Softening in the Wild Heart of Medicine : Water
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Source: Deepest Health: Exploring Classical Chinese Medicine - July 2, 2014 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Authors: Jonathan Edwards Tags: Foundational Science Source Type: blogs
Clarifying the wild heart of medicine : Metal
This article is part of a series by DH writer Jonathan Edwards. If you haven’t already, read about wood, fire and earth.)
A fiber-optic cable.
A vein of quartz.
A snow-capped peak.
A steel knife edge.
Call it Metal or Mineral; it’s the element that connects and conducts, gleams and inspires. And it cuts, freeing the kernel from the chaff. Sharp and hard, clean and clear is Metal. An open channel between heaven and earth.
Living Elements
Before stepping into the shining realm of Metal, a brief reminder of the purpose of this series of articles. It is an invitation to approach the elements directly as living forces...
Source: Deepest Health: Exploring Classical Chinese Medicine - June 24, 2014 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Authors: Jonathan Edwards Tags: Foundational Science Source Type: blogs
Clarifying the wild heart of medicine : Metal
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Source: Deepest Health: Exploring Classical Chinese Medicine - June 24, 2014 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Authors: Jonathan Edwards Tags: Foundational Science Source Type: blogs
Studying Chinese medicine within a busy life : an experiment
One of the biggest difficulties I have had since graduating is finding time to study.
This is not an inherent problem, but one created because of how I schedule around my priorities. My family, the basic work of seeing patients, running a business and my teaching work at NCNM have taken precedence over everything else. Until recently, the “extra” time was devoted to personal cultivation in the physical and emotional sense. At some point, I started to detect a lack of balance, and gave that personal cultivation an even bigger slice.
Of course, I am learning in the process of seeing patients, preparing for classes, and i...
Source: Deepest Health: Exploring Classical Chinese Medicine - June 20, 2014 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Authors: Eric Grey Tags: Study and Scholarship Source Type: blogs
