With Dr. Edward Neal and Michael DeAgro
Art and the creative process are established upon basic processes of the natural world. In this 90 minute public discussion, Apricot Grove artist-in-residence Michael DeAgro and Apricot Grove Medical Director Dr. Edward Neal discuss the interrelationship between art, nature, and medicine, and investigate the important role art can play in medical practice.
With Dr. Edward Neal
Advances in Neijing classical text research over the past several decades have reshaped our understanding of early concepts in Chinese medicine and provided new models of health and illness. In this one-hour public talk, Dr. Edward Neal discusses new concepts of disease pathogenesis and therapy by examining recent reevaluations of cancer.
By Dr. Edward Neal, MD
First published in Chinese Medicine and Culture
Volume 7, Issue 1 (March 2024)
Huang Di Nei Jing ( 黄帝内经 The Yellow Emperor’s Inner Classic) has been the source text of Chinese medicine knowledge and innovation for over two thousand years. Despite this key relevance, many of its ideas and practices have proven difficult to understand and implement fully into clinical practice. Cultural and language differences can be compounded with these challenges but may also present new opportunities for advancement and insight when studied by researchers outside of the originating culture. This article introduces the method of Classical-Text Archaeology and delves into the author’s two-decade journey of researching this text, with a discussion on cultural differences and issues of medical scholarship.
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In the initial descriptions of Chinese medicine set down in the Huangdi Neijing, acupuncture was described as a traditional form of ecological surgery. Its primary aim was to restore the natural watersheds of the body by regulating the flow of the blood circulating through these regions. These writings compare the vascular rivers of the body to rivers in nature, understanding them to be formed by the same basic forces and patterns of nature. Similar to rivers in nature, the flow qualities of the vascular rivers display different seasonal variations or 'tides'. We assess these seasonal tides in the pulse qualities of the major blood vessels of the body. This allows us to synchronize the bodies of our patients with the seasonal patterns of nature.
In a special collaboration with the folks at Evidence Based Acupuncture, Dr. Neal guest moderates a journal club discussing the paper by Stephan Birch and his colleagues titled "Understanding blood stasis in traditional East Asian medicine: a comparison of Asian and Western sources". During this talk, he delves into the current state of Chinese medicine terminology and highlights some of the pressing challenges illuminated by these findings.
Watch an excerpt of Lecture #25 "Physical Diagnosis and the Artist's Eye" from Neijing Nature-Based Medicine: Foundations Level I, presented by Dr. Edward Neal.
Watch an excerpt of Lecture #26 "The Meaning of Stomach Qi in Pulse Diagnosis" from Neijing Nature-Based Medicine: Foundations Level I, presented by Dr. Edward Neal.
Watch an excerpt of Lecture #30 "Obtaining the Qi" from Neijing Nature-Based Medicine: Foundations Level I, presented by Dr. Edward Neal.
By Dr. Edward Neal, MD
First published in Journal of Chinese Medicine
Issue 125 (February 2021)
By the 1980s, a majority of early Chinese texts had been placed on computer databases. This undertaking allowed new, potentially paradigm-shifting, approaches to classical text research. While the full potential of this research has yet to be realised, information discovered to date significantly alters our picture of the early practices and theories of Chinese medicine and presents a wide-ranging collection of new research and clinical opportunities to be explored. This information has the potential to change the way Chinese medicine is understood, taught and practised in significant ways. As such, it affirms the profession by providing new challenges and opportunities and at the same time presents unique challenges by requiring the reevaluation of core concepts. Part one of this article reviews work done over the past 20 years on the Huángdì nèijīng and presents some of the findings discovered using these research approaches. Part two will review the clinical methods that have been developed from this research.
By Dr. Edward Neal, MD
First published in Journal of Chinese Medicine
Issue 126 (June 2021)
The Huángdì nèijīng is the primary source text for the entire profession of Chinese medicine. Despite this central importance, fully implementing a comprehensive clinical method based on its principles and theories has remained elusive. Because of this, the full potential of these principles and theories has remained underutilised in clinical practice, particularly in the West. Over the past twenty years, new approaches to classical text-based research have been developed using the techniques of classical text-based archaeology (see part 1 of this series of articles in issue 125 of the Journal of Chinese Medicine). This research methodology has led to the development of Nèijīng nature-based medicine, a comprehensive clinical practice based on the writings, principles and theories of the Huángdì nèijīng. In this article, I introduce basic principles of Nèijīng nature-based medicine. In a subsequent article in this series, I will introduce technical aspects of this practice.
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道可道非常道名可名非常名無名天地之始有名萬物之母故常無欲以觀其妙常有欲以觀其徼
The Dao that can be percieved by our mind is not the true Dao. The name that can be perceived by our ears is not the true name. The world without names creates the patterns of heaven and earth; the world with names is the mother of the Ten Thousand Things. Thus, to perceive the mysteries, let your desires fall away. To experience the world of limitations, hold them tight.
Dao De Jing
Chapter 1
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道可道非常道名可名非常名無名天地之始有名萬物之母故常無欲以觀其妙常有欲以觀其徼
The Dao that can be known by our mind is not the true Dao. The name that can be heard by our ears is not the true name. The world without names creates the dimensions of heaven and earth, while the world with names is the mother of the Ten Thousand Things. Thus, to perceive the mysteries of the world, let your desires fall away. To experience the world of limitations, hold them tight.
Dao De Jing
Chapter 1
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道可道非常道名可名非常名無名天地之始有名萬物之母故常無欲以觀其妙常有欲以觀其徼
The Dao that can be known by our mind is not the true Dao. The name that can be heard by our ears is not the true name. The world without names creates the dimensions of heaven and earth, while the world with names is the mother of the Ten Thousand Things. Thus, to perceive the mysteries of the world, let your desires fall away. To experience the world of limitations, hold them tight.
Dao De Jing
Chapter 1
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NNBM: Foundations Level I Mentorship Training
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