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In this lecture filmed at his mountain retreat in Sichuan, retired art historian Mr. Sun Wanping—educated in China, Europe and Japan—draws on decades of scholarly pursuit to explore what conditions give tea true vitality and medicinal value. He shares the story of his personal quest for the perfect tea garden, which led him to discover a 1,000-year-old monastery garden hidden for over two centuries among the misty slopes of Mt. Mengding. From the ancient Song Dynasty tea bushes he has spent five years restoring across 350 acres, Mr. Sun explains how time, place, and intention shape a leaf’s deepest character. Join him for an intimate look at all aspects of tea, through the lens of a modern-day scholar living a quiet, contemplative life in the Chinese literati tradition.

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Ancient Leaves on Mt. Mengding: The Ultimate Tea Lecture by a Modern Literati Hermit (Part 1)

CCM2026-05-30T11:15:30-07:00Tags: Classical Chinese Medicine, Heiner Fruehauf, herbalism, lineage, scholar, Sichuan Tea Garden, tea, Teacher|

HEINER FRUEHAUF

In this lecture filmed at his mountain retreat in Sichuan, retired art historian Mr. Sun Wanping—educated in China, Europe and Japan—draws on decades of scholarly pursuit to explore what conditions give tea true vitality and medicinal value. He shares the story of his personal quest for the perfect tea garden, which led him to discover a 1,000-year-old monastery garden hidden for over two centuries among the misty slopes of Mt. Mengding. From the ancient Song Dynasty tea bushes he has spent five years restoring across 350 acres, Mr. Sun explains how time, place, and intention shape a leaf’s deepest character. Join him for an intimate look at all aspects of tea, through the lens of a modern-day scholar living a quiet, contemplative life in the Chinese literati tradition.

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Li Dao, The Wandering Hermit: Memories of My Teacher

CCM2026-05-30T11:03:15-07:00Tags: Classical Chinese Medicine, Heiner Fruehauf, Jinjing qigong, lineage, Teacher, Wang Qingyu|

HEINER FRUEHAUF

This is Part 3 of the three part presentation unpacking Chinese medicine views on water and its counterpart in the microcosm of the human body, jing essence. Heiner will lead us on a highly unique journey with the aim of recognizing and defining the role of the four most important organ networks involved in the storage, circulation and maintenance of jing.

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The Concept of Jing Essence and the Water Organs of Chinese Medicine (Part 3)

CCM2026-06-11T09:44:51-07:00Tags: Chinese herbal medicine, Chinese medicine, Heiner Fruehauf, kidney, water, water organs, winter medicine|

HEINER FRUEHAUF

This is Part 3 of the three part presentation unpacking Chinese medicine views on water and its counterpart in the microcosm of the human body, jing essence. Heiner will lead us on a highly unique journey with the aim of recognizing and defining the role of the four most important organ networks involved in the storage, circulation and maintenance of jing.

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The Concept of Jing Essence and the Water Organs of Chinese Medicine (Part 2)

CCM2026-06-11T17:23:13-07:00Tags: Chinese herbal medicine, Chinese medicine, Heiner Fruehauf, kidney, water, water organs, winter medicine|

HEINER FRUEHAUF

This is Part 2 of the three part presentation unpacking Chinese medicine views on water and its counterpart in the microcosm of the human body, jing essence. Heiner will lead us on a highly unique journey with the aim of recognizing and defining the role of the four most important organ networks involved in the storage, circulation and maintenance of jing.

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The Concept of Jing Essence and the Water Organs of Chinese Medicine (Part 1)

CCM2026-06-11T09:47:10-07:00Tags: Chinese herbal medicine, Chinese medicine, Heiner Fruehauf, kidney, water, water organs, winter medicine|

HEINER FRUEHAUF

This is Part 1 of the three part presentation unpacking Chinese medicine views on water and its counterpart in the microcosm of the human body, jing essence. Heiner will lead us on a highly unique journey with the aim of recognizing and defining the role of the four most important organ networks involved in the storage, circulation and maintenance of jing.

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The Story of Tea: The First Herb of Chinese Medicine (Part 4)

CCM2025-11-07T07:14:28-08:00Tags: Chinese herbal medicine, Chinese herbs, Chinese medicine, Heiner Fruehauf, tea, Yang Tailun|

YANG TAILUN
HEINER FRUEHAUF

In this passionate presentation about the history and pursuit of tea as a medicinal substance, Master Yang Tailun delights his audience with intricate details that are inspiring beyond the magnetic spell of the plant itself. He weaves his lived experience in the ancient home of the Camellia sinensis plant in Southwest China together with the history of medicine, poetry, travel, and trade as well as the passion for life itself.

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The Story of Tea: The First Herb of Chinese Medicine (Part 3)

CCM2025-11-07T07:15:11-08:00Tags: Chinese herbal medicine, Chinese herbs, Chinese medicine, Heiner Fruehauf, tea, Yang Tailun|

YANG TAILUN
HEINER FRUEHAUF

In this passionate presentation about the history and pursuit of tea as a medicinal substance, Master Yang Tailun delights his audience with intricate details that are inspiring beyond the magnetic spell of the plant itself. He weaves his lived experience in the ancient home of the Camellia sinensis plant in Southwest China together with the history of medicine, poetry, travel, and trade as well as the passion for life itself.

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Eight Classical Principles for Practicing Holistic Medicine: Insights From A Tea Master

CCM2025-11-07T07:15:57-08:00Tags: Chinese herbal medicine, Chinese herbs, Chinese medicine, Heiner Fruehauf, tea, Yang Tailun|

YANG TAILUN
HEINER FRUEHAUF

In this passionate presentation about the history and pursuit of tea as a medicinal substance, Master Yang Tailun delights his audience with intricate details that are inspiring beyond the magnetic spell of the plant itself. He weaves his lived experience in the ancient home of the Camellia sinensis plant in Southwest China together with the history of medicine, poetry, travel, and trade as well as the passion for life itself.

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Stairway to Heaven: Chinese Medicine and the Science of Symbols – Part 2

Noah Horan2025-11-07T07:16:34-08:00Tags: Chinese medicine, Cultivation, Heiner Fruehauf, Li Shizhen|

YANG TAILUN
HEINER FRUEHAUF

In this passionate presentation about the history and pursuit of tea as a medicinal substance, Master Yang Tailun delights his audience with intricate details that are inspiring beyond the magnetic spell of the plant itself. He weaves his lived experience in the ancient home of the Camellia sinensis plant in Southwest China together with the history of medicine, poetry, travel, and trade as well as the passion for life itself.

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The Story of Tea: The First Herb of Chinese Medicine (Part 2)

CCM2025-11-07T07:18:33-08:00Tags: Chinese herbal medicine, Chinese herbs, Chinese medicine, Heiner Fruehauf, tea, Yang Tailun|

YANG TAILUN
HEINER FRUEHAUF

In this passionate presentation about the history and pursuit of tea as a medicinal substance, Master Yang Tailun delights his audience with intricate details that are inspiring beyond the magnetic spell of the plant itself. He weaves his lived experience in the ancient home of the Camellia sinensis plant in Southwest China together with the history of medicine, poetry, travel, and trade as well as the passion for life itself.

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The Story of Tea: The First Herb of Chinese Medicine (Part 1)

CCM2025-09-26T01:33:20-07:00Tags: Chinese herbal medicine, Chinese herbs, Chinese medicine, Heiner Fruehauf, tea, Yang Tailun|

YANG TAILUN
HEINER FRUEHAUF

In this passionate presentation about the history and pursuit of tea as a medicinal substance, Master Yang Tailun delights his audience with intricate details that are inspiring beyond the magnetic spell of the plant itself. He weaves his lived experience in the ancient home of the Camellia sinensis plant in Southwest China together with the history of medicine, poetry, travel, and trade as well as the passion for life itself.

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Healing Through Modern Science and Eastern Medicine

CCM2025-02-27T12:07:25-08:00Tags: Chinese medicine, Eastern philosophy, Into Healing, Laurie Regan, Mira Kaddoura, natural medicine, naturopathic medicine, neuroscience|

Into Healing with Mira Kaddoura
Interview with Laurie Regan

Dr. Laurie Regan, friend and colleague ClassicalChineseMedicine.org, shares how the stories we tell ourselves can influence the nervous system, how unexpressed love can manifest as disease, and how reconnecting with blocked parts can help us regain health. There’s so much to be learned from our conversation, but her key message? Despite trauma or disease, at our deepest level, our bodies are never broken.

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Chinese Medicine Cardiology: Approaches to Treating the Heart with Chinese Herbs (2 Parts)

CCM2024-12-13T13:30:52-08:00Tags: cardiology, Chinese herbal medicine, Chinese herbs, cosmology, COVID-19, heart disease, Heiner Fruehauf|

HEINER FRUEHAUF

In this two part presentation, Heiner Fruehauf shares his longstanding experience of treating acute and chronic disorders of the Heart with Chinese herbs. The lecture includes insights into the nature of the Heart from the perspective of Chinese medical cosmology, as well as clinical instructions accompanied by case studies that illustrate how to approach chronic heart disease and acute heart failure in post-COVID and post-vaccine injury cases.

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The Vitality of Water

CCM2025-02-27T12:08:05-08:00Tags: addiction, Chinese medicine, Chris Metro, disease, Into Healing, Mira Kaddoura, natural medicine, naturopathic medicine, science, water|

Into Healing with Mira Kaddoura
Interview with Chris Metro

Dr. Chris Metro, a friend and colleague ClassicalChineseMedicine.org, is a chemist turned naturopathic doctor and acupuncturist. He explores water’s impact on health, blending science, history, and insights on disease, addiction, and well-being.

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Stairway to Heaven: Chinese Medicine and the Science of Symbols

CCM2024-10-22T20:31:45-07:00Tags: Chinese medicine, Heiner Fruehauf, Li Shizhen, rivers, symbolism, water|

HEINER FRUEHAUF

In this video presentation Heiner Fruehauf synthesizes his life’s work, explaining how ancient cultures used the language of symbolism to connect the material world around us to the predominant realm of energy and consciousness. In particular, he outlines how the creators of Chinese medicine devised a highly specific science of symbols to characterize the functional energetics of the human body and the relationship of every place within it to the cosmos at large.

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The Genius of the Shanghan lun

CCM2024-09-12T14:42:53-07:00Tags: Chinese herbal medicine, Chinese herbs, COVID-19, Heiner Fruehauf, Liu Lihong, pandemic, Shanghan lun, Wuhan|

Reflections on My Stay in Wuhan During the Pandemic

LIU LIHONG & HEINER FRUEHAUF

In this video, Dr. Liu Lihong shares more of his experience as one of the first responders during the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan. He further reflects on the surprising efficacy of acupuncture during the pandemic, and the universal applicability of Shanghan lun methodology for both acute and chronic diseases.

Mandarin Chinese, translated into English by Heiner Fruehauf

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Healing Through Chinese Medicine and Embracing Nature

CCM2025-01-20T18:16:24-08:00Tags: aging, Chinese medicine, community, healing, Heiner Fruehauf, Into Healing, Mira Kaddoura, nature|

Into Healing with Mira Kaddoura
Interview with Heiner Fruehauf

Dr. Heiner Fruehauf is a professor, thought leader, and classical Chinese medicine practitioner at his clinic, The Healing Order. In this enlightening episode, we speak about his own early cancer diagnosis, which propelled him into the realm of holistic medicine, and how he intricately navigates the realms of body, energy, and consciousness. He movingly explains his belief that the body is naturally equipped to heal itself and shows us a simple yet effective 5-minute healing practice..

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A Discussion About Wood, Emergence, and Radical Perspective

CCM2024-11-27T15:07:00-08:00Tags: Alexander Love, Chinese medicine, Chinese medicine profession, death, Heiner Fruehauf, Integral Chinese Medicine Collective, Lonny Jarrett, Lorie Eve Dechar, Randine Lewis, Vansanthi Vanniasingham, William Morris|

Scholar-physicans (in the US) Lorie Eve Dechar, Lonny Jarrett, Heiner Fruehauf, William Morris, Randine Lewis, Vansanthi Vanniasingham, and Brandt Stickley discuss the wood element and it's relevance to springtime and the notion of emergence and radical perspective. This is the latest release in a monthly series of discussions considering the integrality of Chinese medicine and its place in our time.

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Essential Prescriptions for Pregnancy and Post-Partum Care

CCM2024-10-16T14:04:44-07:00Tags: Bazhen Tang, Chinese herbs, classical Chinese herbalism, Danggui San, Danggui Shaoyao San, post-partum, pregnancy, Wuyou San|

HEINER FRUEHAUF

This month’s offering features a video summary of Heiner Fruehauf’s teaching about fertility, pregnancy and postpartum care given during a seminar on Mt. Qingcheng in Sichuan Province during the summer of 2019—an introduction to the practical use of the five most fundamental prescriptions for getting pregnant, staying pregnant, easy delivery and postpartum recovery.

Total running time: 29 mins

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All Disease Comes From the Heart (podcast)

CCM2024-09-12T15:01:49-07:00Tags: Buddhism, Chinese medicine, Classical Chinese Medicine, Confucianism, heart, Heiner Fruehauf, Taoism, TCM|

In this podcast, we discuss the ancient awareness that physical disease (dis-ease) arises when the natural flow of the Heart is restricted. This happens when we entertain false beliefs about ourselves or others, and let these prejudices dominate our inner wisdom. When our Heart is functioning freely, we experience ease and feel connected to the people and environment around us. Seen from this perspective, disease isn’t an enemy to be eradicated, but rather a sign in the material world pointing to opportunities to relax, open and live our life in a more whole and authentic way.

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Spirit of the Points: Liver Channel

CCM2023-07-05T16:06:07-07:00Tags: acupuncture, acupuncture point names, acupuncture points, cosmology, Heiner Fruehauf, liver channel, organ networks, Spirit of the Points, Sun Simiao, symbolism|

The great Tang dynasty scholar physician Sun Simiao hinted 1,400 years ago that the secret of understanding the power of the acupuncture points is encoded in their ancient names. This vital piece of information has enormous clinical implications and has literally been lost in translation. This series represents the detailed delivery of goods that was announced in 2018 with the existing video lecture on symbolism of acu-points.

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

CCM2024-09-12T15:01:50-07:00Tags: 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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The Flagship Remedy of Chinese Medicine: Reflections on the Toxicity and Safety of Aconite

CCM2024-09-12T15:01:50-07:00Tags: Aconite Papers, Chinese herbs, Classical Pearls Herbal Formulas, classical texts, fuzi (aconite), German, Heiner Fruehauf, Zhang Jingyue|

BY HEINER FRUEHAUF
GERMAN TRANSLATION BY MARKUS GOEKE

In this paper, a seasoned practitioner of classical Chinese herbalism explains how one of the most important herbs in the Chinese materia medica can be used, once properly grown and processed, without the side effects associated with the toxic alkaloid aconitine. Heiner Fruehauf summarizes some of the dramatic lore surrounding the use of the herb aconite (Fuzi) in East and West, while exploring how Chinese medicine practitioners can utilize the herb safely in modern times to treat a wide range of medical conditions.

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The Organ Networks of Chinese Medicine: Liver

CCM2024-09-12T15:01:51-07:00Tags: cosmology, gallbladder, Heiner Fruehauf, liver, liver channel, organ networks, symbolism|

Explore the field of ancient symbolism that illuminates the physical, emotional, and spiritual functions of the liver organ network.

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The Qualities of a Good Physician

CCM2024-09-12T15:01:52-07:00Tags: Chinese medicine, classical texts, Heiner Fruehauf, self-cultivation, translations|

BY ANONYMOUS (12 Century)
TRANSLATED BY HEINER FRUEHAUF

Everyone who walks the path of healing has to first understand the fundamental principles that are behind all technical aspects of medicine. Only then should herbs and other modalities be prescribed. If healing is approached from the underlying source, all treatment efforts will be sublime and clinical results will naturally follow.

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