The Classical Map of Women’s Health
Human life runs in certain cycles. 7 years for women and 8 years for men. Learn more about the classical aspects of aging and life stage management for women here.
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Foundations of Chinese Medicine
What Your Stool Is Telling You: A Chinese Medical Field Guide
Bowel movements are one of the most reliable diagnostic signals the body produces, and most adults have never been told what to look for. Chinese medicine has been paying close attention to stool for two thousand years. Here is the physiology of a good one, and what it means when things are off.
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Foundations of Chinese Medicine: The Spleen
Digestion is the root of virtually all other human physiologic processes. Learn about how Chinese medicine thinks about and works with the natural strength of your digestion to maximize outcomes and power a healthy life.
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Foundations of Chinese Medicine: Understanding Deficiency
A diagnosis of deficiency in Chinese medicine is not as dramatic as it sounds. Metabolic resources are assigned in bodies to meet daily demands and sometimes those resources are insufficient. This piece explains what deficiency means clinically, how it develops, and how treatment rebuilds capacity over time.
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Foundations of Chinese Medicine: Jīng 精
In Chinese medicine, jīng 精 is your essence—your inherited strength, your reserves, and your potential. This post explores how jīng shapes health across a lifetime, its connection to modern ideas like genetics and epigenetics, and how everyday choices can help preserve and cultivate this vital foundation.
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Foundations of Chiense Medicine: Wèi Qì 衛氣
In Chinese medicine, wèi qì 衛氣 is your body’s protective barrier—the aspect of qì that guards against external disruption. This post explores how wèi qì functions, where it comes from in classical texts, and how it connects to—but differs from—modern ideas of immunity and resilience.
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Foundations of Chinese Medicine: Dampness
Dampness in Chinese medicine isn’t just a symptom—it’s a pattern with personality. It slows, sticks, and sometimes overstays its welcome. But it’s also essential to life. In this post, we explore what dampness really is, where it comes from, and how to live in better relationship with it.
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Foundations of Chinese Medicine: Heat
In Chinese medicine, heat is both essential and potentially disruptive. It fuels life processes like digestion and circulation, but when excessive or misplaced, it can lead to inflammation, agitation, or dryness. This post explores how heat functions in the body, where it comes from, and how to bring it back into balance.
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Foundations of Chinese Medicine: Pattern Differentiation
In Chinese medicine, we don’t treat diseases by name—we treat patterns. This post explores the meaning of bìng jīng 病經 (the channel of disease) and bìng yīn 病因 (its root cause), offering insight into how practitioners understand illness as a dynamic process, not a fixed label.
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