Homeopathic chinese herbology?

Just pulled this out from the Vault – from a TCM herbal academy forum I was on back in 2002. Maybe it will be interesting to some. In terms of prescribing a Chinese herb  formula,  I’m always thinking – what is the standard, what is traditional? When is it true that ‘less is more’? And…

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The Qi character

The character for ‘qi’ in Chinese has many meanings – the usual translation being, generally, ‘energy’. One way to begin to explore its meaning from a TCM, medical point of view, is to look at the pictograph itself: The character depicts 气 (“steam”) over 米 (“rice”): qi is analogous to steam produced from the cooking…

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