Treating Tai Yang
Tai yang represents all the Yang qi in the body. Learning to treat Tai yang is to master the concepts of Yin and Yang.
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Ren Shen in Formulas
In clinical practice, it is easy to assign fixed functions to herbs, tonifies Qi, warms the middle, generates fluids. While useful, these descriptions can limit our understanding if taken too literally. The classical formulas do not present herbs as static substances, but as dynamic participants within a physiological process. In
Xie Xin Tang’s 瀉心湯
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Tong Ren and Shi: Function, Form, and the Language of Hexagrams
Introduction In Chinese medicine, images are used to express ideas that are too broad or subtle to define directly. The hexagrams of I Ching, particularly Tong Ren (Hexagram 13) and Shi (Hexagram 7), offer powerful ways to understand the relationship between function and form. These hexagrams are not merely symbolic—