Contents of Volume: I, Issue: 3
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Old wives tell of a lost tradition
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from the Editors
Our foremothers were told to throw away the home remedies they inherited. However, we are a grassroots medicine: our best support is among the people, so let us foster that relationship. Let us help folk to help themselves, and increase their options and knowledge. -
Si Ni Tang
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by Craig Mitchell
Classic formulas can often be effectively used in ways that do not seem linked to the original citation. When one knows the formula and understands not only the individual ingredients, but how they function synergistically, it is possible to use a formula in this way. -
Practical paediatrics
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by Helen Gordon
In a general paediatric clinic you will often be faced with a sick feverish child and a panic–stricken mother. As children rarely run a fever in accordance with their booked appointment time, you won’t have the luxury of time to consult the texts ... -
References to inappropriate purging in the Shāng Hán Lùn
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by Steve Clavey
This followup to Dan Bensky’s article last issue (Classic Formula Corner, in Vol I, Issue 2) collects the references, for easy clinical reference, to inappropriate purging scattered across the text of the Shāng Hán Lùn. -
Double vision: treating the brain qi
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by Qian Song, Qing dynasty
When a person suddenly begins to see things as double, without any obvious reason, it is often diagnosed as a surplus of Liver qi — who would guess that it is actually due to an insufficiency of brain qi. -
Using thick needles to treat stubborn cold
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by Dr. Li Ming-Zhi
When filiform needles fail to achieve the results expected, switching to thicker needles will increase the tonification or reduction effect and cure the problem. -
An interview with Mark Seem
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by Ray Ford
In this summarized interview, Ray Ford speaks with Mark Seem about acupuncture, teaching methods, the profession, and where it is headed. -
2000 years of medical exchange, Part 3
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by Gunter Neeb
Part three of this article focuses on the development of the system of Paracelsus after that of Galen, anatomical studies, the influence of physics, the birth of orthodox Western medicine, early European encounters with China, and medicine in the age of enlightenment. -
Popular congress forces hard decisions
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by Bettina Brill
The 35th TCM Congress is fondly reviewed by Bettina Brill, after which she looks forward to, and presents us with, some tantalizing glimpses of Rothenburg 2005. -
A long walk through herb science
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reviewed by Brian May
This review asserts that this text from Mark Wright is not so much suited for the person with a casual interest in Chinese herbs but someone pursuing serious study of the Chinese materia medica. -
A fertile source of knowledge
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reviewed by Bettina Brill
In the mind of the reviewer, Bettina Brill, Treatment of Infertility with Chinese Medicine by Jane Lyttleton is an exceptional text in the field of gynaecology, the fruit of observations made in fertility clinics in China combined with her own experience ... -
Ear acupuncture with a different focus
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reviewed by Brian May
This book is designed as a textbook for use in conjunction with training courses offered by the German Academy of Acupuncture and Auriculomedicine as well as by those who wish to teach themselves the European style techniques of ear acupuncture. -
Stories the face has told
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reviewed by Michael Ellis
Lillian Bridges book gets high marks for content, images and discussions of TCM principles, but lower marks for lack of academic style references. -
A shower of warm fragrance
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by Xiaoyao Xingzhe
Several readers have taken me to task for, they said, being too negative. Surely health is not just avoidance? Surely what we do is more important than what we don't do? I can understand their point of view ... -
Old wive's tales, Part 2
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from the Editors
In this follow up to this issue's (Volume I, Issue 3) editorial, the ditors look at gentle home remedies for hiccups, haemorrhoids, chilblains and constipation.,
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