Discover what the cyclical patterns of nature have to do with global economic systems, human health, and starting a new career. At this pivotal moment in human history, let’s draw wisdom from ancient understanding of transformation and nature to navigate towards a harmonious future.
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In this week’s episode we discuss how the Neijing describes seasonal patterns and changes in relation to our bodies’ natural patterns. What does it mean to breathe with the seasons? When we learn to live with the seasons we learn to go with the flow of life. Join us as we learn “The Sacred Dance of the Seasons”.
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Your hosts, Dr. Edward Neal and Mel Hopper Koppelman, explore the importance that stories play in our understanding of the world and how telling better stories may improve the outcomes of our patients. Acupuncture points are more than poetic descriptions, and in this episode, we begin to unearth how the Neijing describes a complete physiological understanding of the human body, with the points being anatomical descriptions and not just numbers on a line.
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Discover how the Neijing describes these channels, potentially as blood vessels, and the implications for modern practice. How does the restoration of blood flow impact health? How do we begin to see the body as nature? What does cancer treatment look like through the lens of ‘ecological restoration’? Tune in to explore the body’s ‘Blood Rivers and Channels’.
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What are the origins and original meanings of the concept of the Five Phases (五行 Wuxing)? What is the role of storytelling in healing? Why is breathing the essential pattern of the universe? These idea’s and more are explored in our inaugural episode ….. “The Original Meaning of Wu Xing”
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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.
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This is a lecture presented by Dr. Edward Neal about Covid-19, given on April 20, 2020 and hosted by Healthy Seminars.
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INTERVIEWED BY MICHAEL MAX (QIOLOGICAL)
We trace our medicine back to the Neijing, but most of our actual practices come from a more modern perspective.
Going back to those roots is not easy. Even for native speakers of Chinese, reading the 文言文 wen yan wen, the classic Chinese is difficult. For those of us in the modern West, these ancient texts are challenging. They require not just language, but a minset that views the world from through a completely different set of lenses and prisms than Cartesian and materialistic science offers to us.
Immersion in this ancient material changes us if we allow it. Gives us hints at seeing how matter and energy interact in ways toward which modern medical science is blind.
In this conversation we listen into how the Neijing gives another way of approaching acupuncture, the 脈 mai, channels, and helps us to understand our bodies as fluid based ecosystems.
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Watch Dr, Neal present a brief excerpt from a lecture on External Diseases given to 2017-2018 Neijing Studies: Level I students on October 1, 2017.
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First published in Medical Acupuncture
Volume 27, Number 2, 2015
The practice of physician acupuncture faces unique challenges in its development and inclusion as a recognized medical specialty. Information contained in early Chinese medical texts offers solutions to some of the divides that separate Chinese Medicine from contemporary biomedicine. Recent advances in classical text research—made possible by the establishment of Chinese language databases—provide new hypotheses of disease pathogenesis and new strategies for treating various acute and chronic illnesses.
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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.
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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
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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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