Contents of Volume: I, Issue: 1
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Welcome to the Lantern!
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from the Editors
Our design is to reflect more of the tradition of Chinese medicine, in all of its multitudinous variety, to balance the tendency towards discarding aspects of Chinese medicine simply because they do not match the current dominant paradigm of Western biomedicine. -
Treatise on treatment
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by Zhang Jie-Bin (1563-1640)
In diagnosis and treatment, aim for accuracy and exactitude. Every disease under heaven has a single root, despite many apparent variations; every prescription has a single consistent relationship with the condition it treats... -
A highly effective point selection method
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by Kerry Carmody
A short article based upon a lecture given by Dr. Guo Shin-Yun, a senior acupuncturist at the Red Cross hospital, Hangzhou in 1985. -
Maintaining shape and nature when carbonising herbs
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by Chen Nian-Zu
The directions for preparing Ten Partially Charred Substances Powder specify that the carbonising process must cease before the materials have broken down and lost their shape and nature. -
The famous Thirteen Princes Formula
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by Steve Clavey
The pre-birth formula popularly called Thirteen Princes (Shi San Tai Bao) has been widely used for centuries, particularly in the middle regions of China around Shanghai and Zhejiang province. It works marvelously well ... -
Grinding teeth
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by Chen Pi
This symptom appears in the early classic books of Chinese medicine Jin Gui Yao Lue (Essentials form the Golden Cabinet) and the Zhu Bing Yuan Hou Lun (Discussion of the Origins of the Symptoms of Disease). -
Vaginal pain
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by Steve Clavey
When painful intercourse results from labial tension and muscular spasms of the vagina, which worsen from ovulation to period; the labial tension could progress to a stabbing pain. One must determine the nature of the pain from intercourse ... -
2000 years of medical exchange, part 1
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by Gunter Neeb
Both the Corpus Hippocraticum and the Huang Di Nei Jing describe diseases as being caused by pathological factors instead of demons or gods, and attempted to explain these factors. -
Retinal detachment
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by Nick Dent
A brief introduction to the causes and treatment approaches for sudden blindness, with a focus on retinal detachment, including a case history of a successful retinal detachment treatment. -
Nourishing life
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by Xiaoyao Xingzhe
To nourish life we must reduce the leakage of vital essence, energy and spirit. The Daoists, among others, very early on saw the way the scenario of depletion of inheritedjing played out, and decided to take steps. -
East meets West in the South
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by Brian May
In Australia, almost all the Chinese herbs used by practitioners are imported. We import loquat leaves, mandarin peel, safflower and mulberry leaves, to name a few, rather than harvest the local products for medicinal use. The reasons behind this are numerous ... -
Combining Western herbs and Chinese medicine
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reviewed by Robbie Todd
Western herbalism has abandoned ancient herbal prescribing systems. As a result, a treasury of Western herbs is now prescribed symptomatically without reference to root patterns of disharmony. Jeremy Ross' book provides valuable information for clinical practice.
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