The Apricot Grove School for Neijing Nature-Based Medicine
The Huángdì Nèijīng Text
The Huángdì Nèijīng is the root text of Chinese medicine. With origins over 2,000 years ago, it is a compilation of ancient writings that describes the workings of the cosmos and nature. From these ideas, a sophisticated system of medicine was developed.
The Huángdì Nèijīng is the root text of Chinese medicine. With origins over 2,000 years ago, it is a compilation of ancient writings that describes the workings of the cosmos and nature. From these ideas, a sophisticated system of medicine was developed.
It establishes the fundamental principles, concepts, and terminology of Chinese medicine, as well as its anatomical and physiological framework, core clinical methods, and theoretical foundation for herbal medicine. The text is divided into two volumes: the Plain Questions (Sùwèn) and the Divine Pivot (Língshū).
Understanding the Neijing has historically been challenging due to classical Chinese language complexities and the fragmented nature of its content. Modern scholarship continues to examine these texts, with recent technological advances enabling deeper analysis of their medical principles and philosophical foundations.
The Neijing represents a significant departure from earlier shamanistic beliefs, introducing systematic theories about health and disease based on concepts like yin-yang and the five phases, viewing human beings as microcosms reflecting the larger natural world. This comprehensive approach to understanding human health and disease remains the foundation of East Asian Medicine.
Why Modern Science Needs the Huang Di Nei Jing
With Apricot Grove Teacher & Colleague Dr. Mel Hopper Koppelman
The Huangdi Neijing is one of the most influential medical texts in human history. It has shaped the healthcare of billions of people over two thousand years. And yet almost no one outside of East Asian medicine has read it — or taken it seriously. This video is about why that’s a mistake, why that’s changing and why the questions modern science is only beginning to ask are questions the Neijing was built to answer.
夫血脈之藏於身也猶江河之流地夫血脈之藏於身也猶江河之流地江河之流濁而不清血脈之動亦擾不安
The blood rivers of the body are held within the body like the rivers that flow through the earth. When their stirrings are obstructed by impediments to flow, they become unsettled.
The Way of Emptiness
Warring States
