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Introduction to Chinese Medicine
The doorway to the whole tradition: what Chinese medicine is, where it came from, how it thinks, and the map of everything you will learn.
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The Vital Substances
Qi, Blood, Essence (Jing), Spirit (Shen) and Body Fluids — the living material the body is made of, and what it means for each to be in excess or deficiency.
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Yin and Yang, and the Five Elements
The two great models that order the whole of Chinese medicine — the logic of balance (Yin-Yang) and the logic of relationship and cycle (the Five Elements).
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Cultivating Health: Prevention and Nutrition
The art of nurturing life — living in harmony with nature, mind and food to prevent illness and build lasting vitality.
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Physiology: The Living Body
How the substances, organs and channels work together as one living, functioning whole — the great processes of physiology.
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Patterns and Syndromes
The heart of Chinese diagnosis — how the gathered signs are assembled into a pattern that guides treatment.
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Causes of Disease
Why illness begins — the external, internal and other factors that disturb the balance of Qi.
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Channels, Vessels and Points
The network of meridians that carries Qi through the body, and the points where it can be reached and adjusted.
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Mechanisms of Disease
How an initial disturbance unfolds into the patterns of illness — the dynamics of excess and deficiency, imbalance and movement.
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Diagnosis: The Four Examinations
How the physician gathers the signs — looking, listening and smelling, asking, and touching — to build the pattern.
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The Zang-Fu Organs
The functional organ networks at the heart of Chinese physiology — what each organ governs, and how they work together.
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Principles and Methods of Treatment
How the treatment principle becomes action — the strategies of treatment and the methods that carry them out.
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Advanced Diagnostic Systems
The staging systems for acute, externally-contracted disease — the Six Channels, the Four Levels, and the San Jiao — that track a pathogen from surface to depth.
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Acupuncture: Points and Techniques
The art of the needle — how points work, the essential points of every channel, and the hands-on techniques of safe, effective needling.
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Moxibustion and Heat Therapy
The warming art — how burning mugwort adds yang and moves cold, the methods of direct, indirect and warm-needle moxa, and where to use them safely.
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Cupping and Gua Sha
The two great surface therapies — negative-pressure cupping and pressure-stroke gua sha: how they move stagnation, when to use them, and how to read their marks.
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Tui Na: Therapeutic Massage
Healing through the hands alone — how tui na works on the channels, its core manipulations, joint methods, and clinical use for pain and beyond.
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Materia Medica: The Herbs
The Chinese pharmacy, category by category — how a herb is characterised, and the essential medicinals that release, clear, move, warm, tonify and stabilise.
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Formulas and Prescriptions
How herbs become medicine — the architecture of a formula and the classic named prescriptions that release, clear, harmonise, tonify, move and warm.
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Clinical Cases: Putting It Together
Where theory meets the patient — the clinical method and worked cases that move from the four examinations to a pattern, a principle, and a treatment with points and herbs.
