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Gu Syndrome with Dr. Heiner Fruehauf, PhD, LAc (Episode #116)

CCM2023-02-15T15:53:28-08:00Tags: chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, Gu Syndrome, Heiner Fruehauf, Lyme Disease, Scott Forsgren|

WITH HEINER FRUEHAUF
INTERVIEW BY SCOTT FORSGREN

In a wide-ranging interview with health writer Scott Forsgren, Heiner outlines the unique relevance of anti-Gu treatment strategies for many modern mystery afflictions such as Lyme disease, fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue disorder. He shares practical advice based on his own clinical experience with inflammatory disorders that involve chronic overwhelm of the immune system by multiple layers of inflammatory pathogens like viruses, spirochetes, fungi and a variety of recalcitrant biofilms. Heiner points, out, moreover, that ancient Gu Syndrome treatment approaches may even contain potential lessons for the treatment of COVID-19.

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Driving Out Demons and Snakes: Gu Syndrome, A Forgotten Clinical Approach to Chronic Parasitism

CCM2024-04-12T10:58:25-07:00Tags: Chinese herbs, chronic disease, chronic parasitism, Gu Syndrome, Heiner Fruehauf|

BY HEINER FRUEHAUF
GERMAN TRANSLATION BY MARKUS GOEKE

This presentation is an attempt to participate in the process of ‘medical archaeology’ by exploring one of the submerged areas of Oriental medicine, namely the complex and variegated clinical approach to the diagnosis and treatment of Gu syndrome (gu zheng). A review of the modern research literature shows that this topic has remained virtually unexplored in both China and the West. Although there are too many classical references to entirely ignore the phenomenon of Gu syndrome, mainland Chinese scholars generally dismiss it as an “ancient, feudalist and superstitious” belief in demons and exorcist practices that has little or no value in modern clinical practice.

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Gu Syndrome: An In-depth Interview with Heiner Fruehauf

CCM2024-04-12T11:02:40-07:00Tags: chronic disease, chronic fatigue syndrome, chronic parasitism, fibromyalgia, Gu Syndrome, Heiner Fruehauf, Lyme Disease|

WITH HEINER FRUEHAUF
INTERVIEW BY BOB QUINN,
WITH ERIN MORELAND

GERMAN TRANSLATION BY SEPP LEEB

In the autumn of 2008 Heiner Fruehauf, PhD, LAc, sat down with two of his students, Bob Quinn, DAOM, LAc and Erin Moreland, LAc, to discuss the finer points of Gu syndrome treatment. This discussion is best understood as a follow-up to and elaboration of the ideas presented in Heiner’s earlier article on Gu syndrome published in the 1998 May issue of The Journal of Chinese Medicine.

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Traditional Chinese Approaches to Gu Syndrome: Two 18th Century Examples

CCM2024-04-12T12:45:57-07:00Tags: Classical Pearls, Classical Pearls Herbal Formulas, German, Gu Syndrome, Heiner Fruehauf|

BY HEINER FRUEHAUF
GERMAN TRANSLATION BY MARKUS GOEKE

Heiner Fruehauf has researched the ancient symbolism that defines the finer points of Chinese organ network function for 10 years. His prolific research project will eventually culminate in the creation of an illustrated compendium on the macrocosmic and microcosmic ramifications of organ network theory. Since the publication of this effort is still years away, he has decided to make a selection from his cache of existing research papers available now by publishing them on ClassicalChineseMedicine.org. The first installment of these papers consists of a detailed etymological analysis of the character of fei 肺 (lung), and the defining statement on the lung’s function/office in chapter 8 of the Huangdi neijing suwen.

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An Ancient Solution for Modern Diseases: “Gu Syndrome” and Chronic Inflammatory Diseases with Autoimmune Complications (An Interview with Heiner Fruehauf)

CCM2022-09-07T11:53:14-07:00Tags: autoimmune disorders, chronic disease, chronic fatigue syndrome, chronic parasitism, fibromyalgia, Gu Syndrome, Heiner Fruehauf, Lyme Disease|

WITH HEINER FRUEHAUF
INTERVIEW BY GORDANA SMITH

After his prolific trip to China in the summer of 2014 to discover new sources of herbs, Heiner Fruehauf has returned with a refresh body of knowledge, that when synthesized with his over 30 years of clinical experience in Chinese medicine, offers greater insight into his body of work about Gu Syndrome (chronic parasitism) and treating complex autoimmune disorders with Chinese medicine.

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Gu Syndrome: Effective Ancient Approaches to Chronic Inflammatory Disease and Other Silent Epidemics of Our Time (2 Parts)

CCM2023-11-06T19:06:59-08:00Tags: autoimmune disorders, Chinese herbs, chronic disease, chronic fatigue syndrome, chronic parasitism, fibromyalgia, Gu Syndrome, Heiner Fruehauf, IBS, Lyme Disease|

HEINER FRUEHAUF

The concept of Gu Syndrome ("Possession Syndrome") is an important feature of classical Chinese medicine that has been thoroughly misunderstood and subsequently disappeared from the historical record of TCM. During the last 15 years, Dr. Fruehauf has tirelessly researched this topic to demonstrate how forgotten ancient medical wisdom can provide effective solutions for difficult clinical problems in our time. In his most detailed lecture on the subject to date, he explains how Qing Dynasty Gu-parasitology can provide unique approaches to chronic infections caused by viruses, fungi, spirochetes, and intestinal parasites--beneficial information for practitioners treating patients who suffer from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, Lyme Disease, IBS, and related auto-immune disorders with "strange" symptoms.

Total running time: 120 mins.
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Restoring the Vital Link Between Gut Chemistry and Brain Chemistry: Using Chinese Herbs to Treat Food Allergies, Leaky Gut Syndrome, IBS, SIBO and GAPS (2 Parts)

CCM2023-11-06T19:09:28-08:00Tags: Chinese herbs, food allergies, Heiner Fruehauf, IBS, leaky gut, SIBO|

HEINER FRUEHAUF

In this 2-part series, Heiner Fruehauf explains how to restore gut terrain with Chinese herbs and re-establish the important connection between the body's digestive system and the nervous system and brain. Particularly, he focuses on digestive impairments such as food allergies, leaky gut, irritable bowel syndrome, small intestine bacterial overgrowth, and gut and physiology syndrome.

Total running time: 96 mins.
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Guizhi – Cinnamon Twig (Translations)

CCM2022-09-07T12:40:09-07:00Tags: Chinese herbs, classical texts, guizhi (cinnamon), Single Herb Series, translations|

BY HUANG GONGXIU, ZHANG XICHUN
(18th and 19th Centuries)
TRANSLATED BY HEINER FRUEHAUF

Cinnamon twig primarily enters the muscle layer at the surface of the body. At the same time, it enters the heart and liver channels. It is the branch of the cassia tree which also yields cinnamon bark. Cinnamon twig is light, its nourishing essence is pungent, and its color is red (therefore its affinity to the heart). The action of cinnamon twig is rising without descending. Therefore, it can also enter the lung and facilitate uninhibited movement of qi, and enter the bladder channel and stimulate water metabolism.

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Stroke and Post-Stroke Syndrome: Prevention and Treatment by Chinese Herbal Medicine

CCM2022-09-06T18:06:37-07:00Tags: Chinese herbs, Huangdi Neijing, stroke|

BY HEINER FRUEHAUF

In the Chinese medical tradition, deliberations about the origins and treatment of stroke related conditions span over more than two millennia. Since the condition has traditionally been considered to be one of the "four major problems in internal medicine" (neike si dabing), stroke chapters occupy a prominent place in virtually all of the works that make up the defining body of traditional Chinese medicine.Beginning with the Huangdi Neijing (Inner Canon of the Yellow Emperor), a variety of stroke symptoms were described in great detail, but there was at that time no single label or category which established a concise Chinese term for the condition.

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Lyme Disease: An In-Depth Interview with Heiner Fruehauf

CCM2022-09-07T11:29:43-07:00Tags: chronic disease, chronic parasitism, fuzi (aconite), German, Gu Syndrome, Heiner Fruehauf, Lyme Disease|

WITH HEINER FRUEHAUF
INTERVIEW BY BOB QUINN,
WITH ERIN MORELAND

In the spring of 2011 Heiner Fruehauf, PhD, LAc sat down with his student and colleague, Bob Quinn, DAOM, LAc to discuss the finer points of “Brain Gu” syndrome, specifically as it pertains to the treatment of Lyme Disease. This discussion is best understood as a follow-up to and elaboration of the ideas presented in Heiner and Quinn’s earlier interview about Gu syndrome published in the fall of 2008 and available in the public part of this website.

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Thunder Pearls – An Effective Chinese Herbal Treatment for Chronic Parasitism

CCM2022-09-07T11:54:01-07:00Tags: chronic parasitism, Classical Pearls Herbal Formulas, Gu Syndrome, Heiner Fruehauf, Thunder Pearls|

BY HEINER FRUEHAUF
GERMAN TRANSLATION BY MARKUS GOEKE

This from a series of transcripts of video lectures from ClassicalPearls.org, the site for herbal formulas based on over thirty years of clinical and academic research by Prof. Heiner Fruehauf. Thunder Pearls Chinese herbal formula is a unique remedy for the important clinical phenomenon of “Abdominal Gu Syndrome”: difficult and treatment resistant diseases caused by chronic, often undiagnosable parasitic infections of the digestive system. This formulation, as Dr. Fruehauf presents, is sourced from ancient Daoist medicine texts and personally proven many times in modern clinical practice.This statement has not been evaluated by the FDA.

REPRINTED WITH PERMISSION FROM CLASSICAL PEARLS HERBAL FORMULAS

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Chinese Symbol Science: A Pathway to Clinical Practice

CCM2022-09-28T14:19:47-07:00Tags: Bob Quinn, Classical Chinese Medicine, clinical practice, cosmology, dreams, Heiner Fruehauf, hexagrams, symbolism, Yijing|

WITH HEINER FRUEHAUF
INTERVIEW BY BOB QUINN

One question students and practitioners of Chinese medicine frequently ask Heiner Fruehauf, "How does one translate the symbolism and cosmology inherent in classical Chinese medicine into a modern clinical practice?" This article is a recent dialogue between Heiner and his colleague Bob Quinn where they discuss the role of ancient cosmology, symbolism and dreams in the context of clinical diagnosis and treatment. (August 2022)

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Voice from the Mountaintop: Heiner Fruehauf on Traditional Chinese Medicine and Lyme Disease (3 Parts)

CCM2022-09-07T11:28:44-07:00Tags: Chinese herbs, chronic disease, chronic parasitism, Heiner Fruehauf, Lyme Disease|

WITH HEINER FRUEHAUF
INTERVIEW BY REGINA WEICHART

Chinese medicine continues to be an extremely relevant clinical modality in modern times, in part because an increasing array of chronic disorders with autoimmune implications remain unrecognized, unexplained and unresolved by the parameters of western medicine. In this interview, Heiner Fruehauf explains the unique benefits and potential advantages of the Chinese medicine approach to patients and practitioners working with Lyme Disease, Fibromyalgia, and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

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The Black Label of Classical Pearls: Thunder Pearls, Lightning Pearls, and Dragon Pearls

CCM2022-09-07T11:52:53-07:00Tags: Chinese herbs, chronic disease, chronic parasitism, Classical Pearls Herbal Formulas, Gu Syndrome|

PRESENTED BY HEINER FRUEHAUF
LECTURE TRANSCRIPT

I am happy to report consistent feedback from practitioners around the world reflecting that the very first remedies of the Classical Pearls series are making a real clinical impact. Thunder Pearls and Lightning Pearls, the Classical Pearls formulas with the enigmatic black label are meeting the goal that was set for them when they were first created: to fill a conceptual and clinical void for the treatment of chronic inflammatory diseases that induce great physical and emotional suffering, yet which often remain undiagnosed, hidden in the dark and out of therapeutic reach for most Western medicine and TCM practitioners.

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The Alchemy of Cooking (2 Parts)

CCM2023-12-06T15:00:38-08:00Tags: cooking, dietetics, food preparation, Liu Lihong, nutrition, water|

LIU LIHONG & HEINER FRUEHAUF

After several years of COVID-related lock-downs in China, we were able to spend precious time with Dr. Liu Lihong again this summer. We felt privileged to hear about his latest project probing the intricate depths of Chinese Medicine—the alchemy of food preparation. Dr. Liu’s passionate lecture includes unique insights into the energetic properties of water and an introduction to Nanshan Yinshi, a hermit lineage of food preparation that originated from sacred Mt. Zhongnan in Shaanxi.

Mandarin Chinese, translated into English by Heiner Fruehauf

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Thoughts on Coronavirus Prevention and Treatment with Chinese Medicine

CCM2022-09-07T13:59:30-07:00Tags: Chinese herbs, classical Chinese herbalism, Classical Pearls Herbal Formulas, coronavirus, COVID-19, Heiner Fruehauf|

BY HEINER FRUEHAUF

Dr. Fruehauf offers important insights for the Chinese medicine etiology and potential treatment approaches to the coronavirus epidemic using Chinese herbal medicine; based on medical treatment reports from China and his own clinical experience during the recent flu season.

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED MARCH 2020, REVISED SEPTEMBER 2021 AND JANUARY 2022

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Trusting the Fundamentals – Using Chinese Medicine in the Treatment of Epidemic Disease • Qi135

CCM2022-09-07T13:47:32-07:00Tags: coronavirus, COVID-19, Fever School (Wenbing), Heiner Fruehauf, Michael Max, Qiological, Shanghan lun|

QIOLOGICAL PODCAST WITH MICHAEL MAX
INTERVIEW WITH HEINER FRUEHAUF

This conversation between seasoned Chinese medicine practitioners Michael Max and Heiner Fruehauf includes news from the front line of Chinese medicine treatments in hospitals in Wuhan and elsewhere, and discusses both the common nature of the current epidemic pathogen as well as the importance of applying differential diagnosis (bianzheng lunzhi) in approaching it with the modalities of Chinese medicine.

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A Discussion of Traditional Chinese Medicine Diagnosis and Treatment Approaches to COVID-19 Based on the Experience of Chinese Medicine Expert Deng Tietao During the SARS Epidemic

CCM2022-08-10T11:56:27-07:00Tags: Chinese herbs, classical Chinese herbalism, coronavirus, COVID-19, damp febrile disease, Deng Tietao, Fever School (Wenbing), SARS|

BY ZHANG WEILAN, WANG XIANGDONG, WANG YUJIN, TAN CONG'E
TRANSLATED BY KENDRA DALE AND HEINER FRUEHAUF

Lessons for the treatment of COVID-19 from the late Dr. Deng Tietao, the master herbalist from Guangzhou who showed the world during the SARS outbreak in 2003 that viral epidemics can be successfully treated with Chinese medicine.

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The Role of Chinese Medicine in the COVID-19 Epidemic (transcript)

CCM2022-08-10T12:01:55-07:00Tags: coronavirus, COVID-19, damp febrile disease, Fever School (Wenbing), Liu Lihong, wenbing, Wuhan|

TRANSCRIPT
BY LIU LIHONG
TRANSLATED BY HEINER FRUEHAUF AND BRYAN MCMAHON

Transcript of a 2-hour video lecture from a COVID-19 hospital in Wuhan, delivered by the prominent Chinese medicine scholar-physician Liu Lihong. Dr. Liu describes the important role of Chinese medicine in the treatment of this epidemic, and emphasizes the importance of the classical six-phase approach in diagnosis.

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The Dampness Epidemic: Exploring the Clinical Characteristics of COVID-19 in Shanghai

CCM2022-08-10T11:57:34-07:00Tags: coronavirus, COVID-19, damp febrile disease, Fever School (Wenbing), Heiner Fruehauf, wenbing|

BY XUE YAN, ZHANG WEI, XU GUIHUA, CHENXIAORONG, LUYUNFEI, WANG ZHENWEI, SHI KEHUA, WUHUAN, YU JIAN
REDACTED AND TRANSLATED BY HEINER FRUEHAUF

A recent report based on the clinical experience of front-line physicians in Shanghai. After treating more than 100 confirmed cases of COVID-19, they are of the opinion that this disease should be classified as belonging to the traditional rubric of “damp epidemic” (shiwen 濕瘟).

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Expert Consensus Statement on the Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment of COVID-19 Infection in Children

CCM2022-09-07T13:47:52-07:00Tags: Chinese herbs, classical Chinese herbalism, Classical Pearls Herbal Formulas, coronavirus, COVID-19, Heiner Fruehauf, pediatrics|

BY WANG YONGYAN, WANG XUEFENG, MA RONG
SYNTHESIZED AND TRANSLATED
BY HEINER FRUEHAUF

After observing an idiopathic outbreak of viral pneumonia in December 2019, later termed the COVID-19 infection, increased numbers of infected children have come to the attention of relevant medical agencies in China. Includes a detailed outline of the government's official TCM treatment guidelines that have been employed at Chinese hospitals since late January for both children and adults.

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Report from the Front Line in Wuhan

CCM2022-09-07T11:17:42-07:00Tags: Chinese herbs, classical Chinese herbalism, coronavirus, COVID-19, Liu Lihong, Wuhan|

BY LIU LIHONG
TRANSLATED BY HEINER FRUEHAUF

A report from one of the first Chinese medicine responders to the front lines of treating COVID-19 in Wuhan. Dr. Liu Lihong offers first-hand insights into the etiology of the disease and suggests possible treatment approaches using the modalities of acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine.

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Visions of the Baojun: Donald Trump and the Pathological Large Intestine Archetype in Classical Chinese Medicine

CCM2022-09-07T13:59:33-07:00Tags: Correlative Cosmology, cosmology, Donald Trump, Heiner Fruehauf, large intestine, symbolism|

BY HEINER FRUEHAUF

This impromptu three part editorial by Heiner Fruehauf is an attempt to make sense of the recent US presidential elections through the constructive lens of Chinese medicine systems science.

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Ascending and Descending in Herbal Medicine: An Interview with Heiner Fruehauf, PhD

CCM2022-09-19T20:55:50-07:00Tags: Chinese herbs, Heiner Fruehauf, Huang Yuanyu, Li Dongyuan, Lyme Disease, Shanghan lun, Wu Sheng'an, Zhang Jingyue|

WITH HEINER FRUEHAUF
INTERVIEW BY BOB QUINN

Heiner Fruehauf sat down recently with his long-time student and colleague at National University of Natural Medicine, Bob Quinn, to discuss ascending and descending functions in the body. While on the surface a seemingly simple topic, it is in reality crucial to understand the up-down movement dynamic if one is to practice herbal medicine effectively.

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Three Yin and Three Yang: Clarifying Zhang Zhongjing’s Diagnostic Approach of the Six Conformations

CCM2019-06-11T21:30:07-07:00Tags: classical texts, etymology, German, Shanghan lun, Six Conformations, Zhang Zhongjing|

BY YARON SEIDMAN
Hunyuan Institute

Our associate is an accomplished Chinese medicine physician and emerging scholar on the classical aspects of TCM. His studies with his mentor, Dr. Liu Lihong, have led him to specialize in the six conformation system of Chinese diagnostics introduced in the Shanghan lun. He is presently writing a book on treating infertility with Chinese herbs, wherein he is discussing his thoughts on the deeper meaning of the "three yin and three yang" system. He has allowed us to a preview parts of the book in the Associates Forum—a must read for everyone interested in six conformation theory.

GERMAN TRANSLATION BY MARKUS GOEKE

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Six Conformation Diagnosis in Context: The Six Cosmic Qi (liu qi) and the Six Stages of Qi Transformation (liu jing)

CCM2022-09-07T12:47:22-07:00Tags: chronic disease, German, Heiner Fruehauf, liuqi, Six Conformations, Six Cosmic Qi|

BY HEINER FRUEHAUF
GERMAN TRANSLATION BY MARKUS GOEKE

The six conformations represent another system of symbolic methodology that is of great importance for the practice of classical Chinese medicine. Its origins are related to both yin-yang and five phase element theory, yet it is often the primary diagnostic modality that certain practitioners, especially those trained in the lineage of Shanghan lun herbalism, choose to utilize.

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All Disease Comes From the Heart: The Pivotal Role of the Emotions in Classical Chinese Medicine

CCM2022-09-07T11:54:59-07:00Tags: chronic disease, Correlative Cosmology, cosmology, emotions, Five Phases (Elements) Theory, German, heart, Huangdi Neijing, symbolism, Wang Fengyi|

BY HEINER FRUEHAUF
National University of Natural Medicine,
College of Classical Chinese Medicine

Most modern clinicians find that a majority of their patients suffer from the symptom complex generally referred to as “stress.” Emotional stress, however, is usually regarded as a confounding rather than a causative factor in pathophysiology. This assessment is contrary to the tenets of classical Chinese medicine, which originally regarded emotional imbalance as a spiritual affliction of primary significance. While ancient Chinese philosophy considered emotional sensibility as our greatest asset in the process of fulfilling human destiny, it also regarded human temperaments as our greatest liability due to vast pathogenetic potential.

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Gancao Xiexin Tang (Licorice Purge the Heart Decoction): A Forgotten Key Remedy For the Treatment of Toxic Skin Conditions

CCM2022-09-07T12:03:32-07:00Tags: Chinese herbs, German, Heiner Fruehauf, Shanghan lun, Zhang Zhongjing|

BY HEINER FRUEHAUF
GERMAN TRANSLATION BY MARKUS GOEKE

Gancao Xiexin Tang was first recorded by the Han physician Zhang Zhongjing about 1,800 years ago. Both Shanghan lun and Jingui yaolüe, the now separated parts of his classic guidebook on herbal formulas (Shanghan zabing lun), cite this particular formula. In modern times, this formula is usually regarded as a variation of the widely used Pinellia Purge the Heart Decoction (Banxia Xiexin Tang) and thus most often prescribed as a remedy for Banxia Xiexin Tang symptom complex (discomfort in stomach area, belching, diarrhea). This is precisely the usage suggested for this remedy in the Shanghai lan, where Gancao Xiexin Tang and Shengjiang Xiexin Tang are listed as variations of the standard Banxia Xiexin Tang.

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“On Differentiating Lung Organ Disease Patterns and Corresponding Formulas”, followed by Commentary

CCM2017-04-01T19:04:58-07:00Tags: Chinese herbs, classical texts, Fuxing Jue, lung, Tangye Jing|

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“On Differentiating Spleen Organ Disease Patterns and Corresponding Formulas”, followed by Commentary

CCM2017-04-01T19:05:35-07:00Tags: Chinese herbs, classical texts, Fuxing Jue, spleen, Tangye Jing|

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Single Herbs: Shichangpu (Acorus gramineus)

CCM2021-03-22T13:30:59-07:00Tags: Chinese herbs, Classical Pearls Herbal Formulas, didao yocai (terroir), paozhi (traditional processing), shichangpu (acorus), Single Herb Series|

By Heiner Fruehauf

Heiner Fruehauf’s prolific research trip to China and Vietnam in the summer of 2014 to source high quality, potent, directly-traded Chinese herbs from small family farms provided a significant amount of material and information about didao yocai and paozhi – terroir and traditional preparation methods, respectively. As a result, he brings you some of that knowledge in this series, information that is quickly being lost to the ages.

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Wuzhuyu – Evodia (Translation)

CCM2022-09-07T12:21:38-07:00Tags: Bencao qiuzhen, Chinese herbs, classical texts, translations, whuzhuyu (evodia)|

BY HUANG GONGXIU (18th Century)
TRANSLATED BY HEINER FRUEHAUF

Wuzhuyu (Evodia ruticarpa) eliminates counterflow of cold liver qi. Its flavor is bitter, and its quality is hot and dry. It is slightly toxic. It has a primary affinity to the qi layer of the jueyin networks. It counteracts bloating. Li Dongyuan once said: “For a situation where turbid yin toxins do not descend and cause severe counterflow symptoms above, in severe cases accompanied by bloating and swelling, Wuzhuyu is the only substance that can effectively treat this condition.” Overuse of this herb, however, will cause harm to a person’s source qi.

FROM BENCAO QIUZHEN (EXPLORING THE TRUE MEANING OF THE MATERIA MEDICA, 1769)

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Fuzi – Aconite (Translations)

CCM2022-09-07T12:39:58-07:00Tags: Chinese herbs, classical texts, fuzi (aconite), translations, Zhang Xichun|

BY HUANG GONGXIU, ZHANG XICHUN
(18th and 19th Centuries)
TRANSLATED BY HEINER FRUEHAUF

Aconite primarily enters the vital gate of life (mingmen). Its nutritive essence is pungent and extremely hot. Aconite is purely yang in nature and thus toxic. Its function is to move being confined to one place, so it is known to move through all twelve channels, and there is no place in the body it can not reach.

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Excerpts from Zhang Xichun’s Materia Medica, in Chinese at Heart But Western Where Appropriate: Essays Investigating an Integrated Form of Medicine (Yixue Zhong Zhong Can Xi Lu, 1933)

CCM2021-03-26T12:24:02-07:00Tags: baizhu (atractylodes), banxia (pinellia), chaihu (bupleurum), Chinese herbs, classical texts, dahuang (rhubarb), danggui (angelica), dihuang (rehmannia), fuling/fushen (poria), fuzi (aconite), gancao (licorice), guizhi (cinnamon), huanglian (coptis), mahuang (ephedra), shaoyao (peony), Zhang Xichun|

BY ZHANG XICHUN
(1960-1933)

INTRODUCED AND TRANSLATED
BY HEINER FRUEHAUF

This original translation explores the clinical efficacy of twelve important Chinese herbs, and gives an example of the highly personal and narrative way in which scholar clinicians used to relate to medicinal plants in the past. Selected from the herbal compendium of one of the last master physicians of the classical era of Chinese medicine.

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Promoting Health and Relaxation During the Four Seasons

CCM2022-09-07T12:36:39-07:00Tags: classical texts, self-cultivation, translations, vitality and wellness|

BY GAO LIAN (16th Century)
TRANSLATED BY HEINER FRUEHAUF

The following is a presentation of four famous seasonal tableaux by Gao Lian, a 16^th century poet and medical scholar who was an ardent proponent of the art of nourishing life. They originally appeared in Gao's book, Zunsheng bajian (Eight Pieces on Observing the Fundamental Principles of Life), which Chinese physicians used to regard as a comprehensive source of lifestyle related information. Recommencing one of the main themes of the Neijing, these seasonal portraits can be read as a typical attempt to translate the densely crafted teachings of the classic into more contemporary language.

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Insomnia and Vivid Dreaming in Chinese Medical Thinking

CCM2022-09-06T18:03:30-07:00Tags: dreaming, insomnia|

BY HEINER FRUEHAUF

Just like other traditional cultures, the Chinese have always attached a great deal of importance to the occurrence as well as the contents of dreams. In general, ancient Taoist thinkers believed that the healthy and balanced person should sleep undisturbed and not have any dreams at all, since they are always an indication of intemperate meandering by the ethereal soul (hun). The Inner Canon (Neijing) had outlined that the body’s qi primarily circulates on the body surface during the day, then circulates within the body’s interior during the night. If this normal rhythm is disturbed, sleep disorders such as insomnia, narcolepsy, or nightmares may occur.

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Blood, Blood Stasis, and Blood Path Disorders

CCM2022-09-06T18:10:58-07:00Tags: blood disorders, chronic disease, Huangdi Neijing, Kanpo|

BY HEINER FRUEHAUF

Japanese Kanpo (“Chinese modalities”) medicine has in many ways distinguished itself as an independent school of Oriental medical practice. Although Kanpo practitioners generally derive their inspiration from the Chinese classics, they have developed their own set of diagnostic procedures, therapeutic methods, and medical theories, certain aspects of which vary quite drastically from standard approaches adopted by their colleagues in modern China. To dismiss the Japanese system as an unorthodox branch of Chinese medicine, however, would belittle the age-old Japanese practice of “creative imitation” as baseless esotericism, and miss important aspects of classical Chinese theory that have been preserved and illuminated by the Japanese approach.

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Commonly Used Chinese Herb Formulas for the Treatment of Mental Disorders

CCM2022-09-06T18:09:05-07:00Tags: Chinese herbs, mental health|

BY HEINER FRUEHAUF

The concept of an inseparable body mind continuum is one of the main characteristics of Eastern thought. In classical Chinese medicine, therefore, bodymind continuum mental activity has always been considered to be inseparable from bodily functions, and mental diseases were generally not treated differently from any other disorder. The Chinese term 'yuzheng' (depression), for instance, refers to stagnation on both a physical and mental plane, and is usually addressed with the same diagnostic and therapeutic means as diseases that would be considered to have entirely physi cal origins in the West.

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Alcohol Use in Traditional Chinese Formulas

CCM2022-09-07T12:07:44-07:00Tags: Chinese medicine profession, Huangdi Neijing, TCM, Zhang Jingyue|

BY VARIOUS AUTHORS
TRANSLATED BY HEINER FRUEHAUF

Prior to the process of treating disease, the sage (superior doctor) must be able to distinguish the Yin and Yang of Heaven and Earth. S/he must know the rhythmic flow of the four seasons and the intricate relationships between the five organ networks and the six bowel systems. S/he must be able to distinguish the Yin/Yang and exterior/interior quality of the meridians, and know what kind of diseases to treat with acupuncture, what kind with moxibustion, and what kind with herbs. S/he must understand the relationship between health and social interaction, master the standard procedure of diagnosis and treatment, and discern the constitutional differences in rich and poor people.

FROM INNER CANON OF THE YELLOW EMPEROR (NEIJING SUWEN, CHAPTER 77: "ANALYZING THE FIVE MISTAKES IN DIAGNOSIS" (FL. 200 B.C.

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Bagang: The Eight Diagnostic Parameters

CCM2017-04-01T20:01:48-07:00Tags: Cheng Goupeng, classical texts, translations, Zhang Jingyue|

BY VARIOUS AUTHORS

INTRODUCED AND TRANSLATED
BY HEINER FRUEHAUF

Traditional Chinese medicine incorporates several diagnostic systems of differentiation, such as the five organ approach, the six confirmation approach, and the triple warmer approach. These different diagnostic systems are frequently combined in clinical practice, but since they were conceived and favored by different schools of medical practitioners, they are often used completely independent from each other. The eight diagnostic parameters, also called the eight principal patterns in diagnosis or the eight rubrics, constitute the most fundamental set of diagnostic standards which all practitioners of Chinese medicine—independent of their preference for one system of diagnosis or another—use and must know.

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