In the northern hemisphere, today Thursday March 20th,2025 is the Vernal Equinox. Even though we won’t be able to see it, at exactly 5:01 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time the sun will be at an exact vertical angle to the equator. Over the next few months the sun will continue angling more and more towards theContinue reading “Vernal Equinox 春分”
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The Energetics of the Torso
The San Jiao disseminates the Yuan Qi out of the Kidneys, and it is the San Jiao mechanism is that which creates the energetics associated with the front Mu and back Shu points.Although the San Jiao does not have form we can say that it is represented by the vortex that moves from ST11 (QiContinue reading “The Energetics of the Torso”
In Search of A Philosophical Medicine
This article is also available in its published form CJOM, Vol 11, No. 2 Spring 2000 (pdf) All medicine is philosophical in nature. Even modern medicine is based on our modern-day understanding of life as a biochemical, possibly mechanical, process. Chinese medicine also is based upon certain philosophical understanding cloaked in cultural terms appropriate to its timeContinue reading “In Search of A Philosophical Medicine”
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