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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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.
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East Asian medicine is a nature based medicine. And nature… nature is weird, and mysterious. And as much as we like to come up with “Laws of Nature” they are more like approximations. Useful for sure. But you’re asking for trouble if you confuse the map with the territory. And with nature, the territory is always changing. How do you keep your senses open and unencumbered with habit and belief? How do you stay present to what your patient might need in this particular moment? How do you wisely use knowledge in such a way that it doesn’t become dogma?
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.
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Watch this recently recorded interview between Dr. Edward Neal, MD and Dr. Xavier Aupí, PhD, a theoretical physicist from Barcelona.
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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 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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