Scholarly Resources
In keeping with our professed goal, we have collected ancient and modern textual resources for our library —articles that we have published in the past— the criteria for selection being that they should be both clinically useful and interesting. We try to represent as many of the specialty departments of Chinese medicine as possible, and preserve them here for reference. Click on an article link for the author and content summary.
Acupuncture
Acupuncture articles
A range of articles on topics ranging from point selection and use, to needling methods, to case histories — and also the external therapies of cupping and guasha. - A Qing dynasty commentary on acupuncture points
- Three points for vomiting and reflux
- The Naked Flame
- Three difficult pediatric cases
- Cupping and shamanism in Tanzania
- Bloodletting in West, acupuncture in East
- Atopic dermatitis treated with moxa
- Shi: Efficacy born of disposition
- Acupuncture, eczema & yangming
- Fire Burning Mountain and Cool Penetrating the Sky
- Thoughts on retaining the needle
- Sweet scent of the plum blossom
- Three questions to Wang Ji
- On presence of mind and subtle sensations
- Gua sha: smoothly scraping out the sha
- Treating insomnia with needles
- On greeting a friend
- Coma in Casablanca
- Jade Dragon Song of 120 points
- Using thick needles for stubborn cold
- A highly effective point selection method
- Acupuncture Case Notes of Yu Xiao-Zhen
- Mending the fascia with modern cupping
- Explorations of cupping in Greece
- Sinus tarsi syndrome & acupuncture
- Needling for uterine prolapse
- Acupuncture of the Purging School
- Using Yanglingquan
- Moxa: The Fire of Life
- Cupping Deficiency
- The art of Keiri Inoue
- Gua sha and the Buddhist forest monks
- A cupping mark is not a bruise
- On the nature of channels
- Four essentials in needling with Ju Ci
- Achilles tendinopathy
- The merging of ways
- An axis of efficacy (part 2)
- An axis of efficacy (part 1)
- Arrival of the Qi
Classical texts
Classics
We use the term "classics" broadly to include not only the standard texts of the Chinese medical canon, but also other ancient texts and historical aspects of Chinese medicine. - Tangye jingfa
- How to interpret the Fuxingjue
- The four reversals: a meditation on Si Ni
- Bensky on SHL lurking pathogens
- Liu Du-Zhou’s thoughts on study
- Shaoyin disease in the Shang Han Lun
- Deficiency cold & heat in the Nan Jing
- Yin-yang pathologies in the Nan Jing
- Pathogenic influences in the Nan Jing
- Regarding the Lower Origin of the Wei Qi
- Shang Han Lun qi transformation theory
- The merging of ways
Essays
This includes essays on classical ideas, as well as on other modern and historical aspects of Chinese medicine. - Tangye jingfa
- Li Zhongzi’s important methods of differentiation
- How to interpret the Fuxingjue
- Styles of practice in Chinese medicine (2)
- Medicine is no minor art
- Circular dynamics of ancient Chinese medicine
- How to study herbs correctly: Ma Huang
- Styles of practice in Chinese medicine
- Ten vegetables & their therapeutic outlines
- Extraordinary vessels & creation of life
- Reflections on using Sa’am acupuncture
- Original yang and true fire
- What we never knew about Fu Qingzhu
- The extraordinary ordinariness of Fu Qingzhu
- Nasal therapy & induced sneezing
- Shang Han Lun and 36 Stratagems of War
- Tang discusses the two souls
- Bringing form to abstraction
- The Naked Flame part 2
- Tong: connection to the whole
- Seven Bowls of Tea
- Private notes with Dr Huang Huang
- A biography of Qian Yi
- Internal heat from stagnant blood
- 2000 years of medical exchange (pt 4)
- 2000 years of medical exchange (pt 2)
- 2000 years of medical exchange (pt 3)
- 2000 years of medical exchange (pt 1)
- Zhang Jie-Bin’s treatise on treatment
- Medicine as genius
- Rise and Fall of the Gallbladder
- Liu Du-Zhou lecture notes on jueyin
- The pivot of nothingness
- Lu Du-Zhou: Clinical experience with classical formulae (pt 2)
- Lu Du-Zhou: Clinical experience with classical formulae (pt 1)
- Evidence is more valuable than logic
- The Ying Qi Cycle
- Five meditations on emotions
- Qin Bo-Wei: Issues in Warm Disease
- Two essays from Zhou Xue-Hai
- Medical parallels between China and Southeast Asia
- A touch of Ling
- Pulse by the Hanging Threads
- The dynamic flow of qi in Humanity
- Playing with Fire: the Huo Shen School
- Neo-Confucian medical theory & practice
- The poetry of constipation
- Medical identity in China & Southeast Asia
- Huo Shen school: thoughts and methods
- Qin Bo-Wei: Warm Disease made simple
- Regarding the Lower Origin of the Wei Qi
- The merging of ways
- An axis of efficacy (part 2)
- An axis of efficacy (part 1)
Daoist reading
Adventures of the Fat Monk
Yang Sheng
Every issue contains an article on Yang Sheng, on (mostly) Daoist ideas of health and life-enhancing practices. Many are offered free of charge. - Submerged dragon
- The Valley Spirit not dying
- The shaping of our bodies
- The Nine Toothed Rake
- Resolving confusion, cultivating transcendence
- Discovering the breath within
- Internal martial arts
- Yum Cha as Life Training
- The Yellow Emperor asks about Real People
- Sitting Ba Duan Jin
- Ba Duan Jin
- The three sources of energy
- Daoist reading
- Curse of the Tao Tie
- Perspective shifts: storytelling & healing
- The Natural State
- Two letters from Liu Yi-Ming
- Yang Sheng according to the time of day
- A Chinese medical calendar for the Southern Hemisphere
- The dynamic flow of qi in Humanity
- Nan Huai-Chin discusses Zhuge Liang’s Letter to my Son
Herbal medicine
Case Histories
Clinical examples of applied Chinese medicine, from ancient and modern doctors alike. - Fu’s Qing Jing San (Cool the Menses)
- More failure and success in clinic
- Bloodletting for chronic constipation
- Classical formulas in gynecology
- Sjogrens syndrome: case histories
- A tale of two orbits
- Swollen red sores not always yang heat
- Symptoms occurring at fixed times
- Gui Zhi jia Da Huang Tang
- Bloodletting and external herbs for hepatic lesion
- The Bodyguard
- Atopic dermatitis treated with moxa
- Dr Yang treats Hot Painful Bi
- Herbs for post glandular fever
- Gui Zhi Tang for abscess on the head
- Liu Du-Zhou treats soft tetany
- Yin deficiency water swelling
- Two cases of vulval pain
- Wind of the Four Crooks
- Peripheral polyneuropathy
- Midnight belching
- Severe throat infection in pregnancy
- Treating focal distention
- Retinal detachment
- Treating vaginal pain
- Candida and lower back ache
- Lou Bai-Ceng treats asthma
- Beng lou cases of Ding Gan-Ren
- Case histories from the Shi Bing Lun
- He Shao-Qi: Success and failure in clinic
- Case: The infertility of Emperor Guangxu
- Bell’s palsy: a case study
- Pain syndrome: three cases
- Moxa for recurrent miscarriage
Clinical Notes
Tips and observations drawn from the empirical experience of practitioners. - Fire not returning to its source
- How to study herbs correctly: Ma Huang
- Two less common uses of Si Wu Tang
- The four reversals: a meditation on Si Ni
- Stop picking on the Liver
- Remarks on Gan Mai Da Zao Tang
- Fu’s Qing Jing San (Cool the Menses)
- Fu Qingzhu’s missing chapter on infertility (pt 3)
- Fu Qingzhu’s missing chapter on infertility (pt 2)
- How Gan Cao works
- How old is aged tangerine peel?
- The pickling pot & digestive essences
- Fu Qingzhu’s use of Bai Zhu
- Fu Qingzhu’s missing chapter on infertility
- ‘Grain qi overcomes yuan qi’
- Cancer is a state
- Jin Zhao: two cases to make you think
- A day at the mercy of Ante Babic
- Gui Zhi Tang or Yu Ping Feng San?
- The Chimney
- Classical formulas in gynecology
- Management of diabetes
- Sjogrens syndrome: case histories
- A tale of two orbits
- Three points for vomiting and reflux
- Three difficult pediatric cases
- Ghost points, insanity and evolution
- The three currents of external medicine
- Swollen red sores not always yang heat
- Symptoms occurring at fixed times
- Qing Gu San to cool the bones
- Bloodletting and external herbs for hepatic lesion
- Atopic dermatitis treated with moxa
- Dr Yang treats Hot Painful Bi
- Lung yang deficiency
- Lesser-known techniques of ascent and descent
- Qin Bo-Wei’s use of medicinal syrups
- Vietnamese herbal steam therapies
- The Thai herbal sauna
- Flesh & blood: qi in the exterior
- Feng shui for your practice
- The Shape of Qi
- Liu Du-Zhou: six crucial concepts
- What a patient craves
- Autobiography of Qiu Xiao-Mei
- Tidbits from an experienced gynaecologist
- Lurking pathogens: three modern approaches
- The legend of Mu Dan Pi
- Cancer etiology and the San Jiao
- Six aspects of blood stasis
- On wind
- Abdominal patterns for SHL formulas
- Lurking pathogens: a Liu case study
- Pathway of the protective qi
- Discourse on warm-heat disease
- Huang Qi through the eyes of Zhang Zhong-Jing
- Disorders of the Spleen and Stomach
- Paediatric developmental disorders
- References to inappropriate purging in the Shang Han Lun
- Advice from Zhejiang gynaecologists
- Treating vaginal pain
- Song style gynaecology
- Liver yang deficiency
- Jueyin headaches
- Lurking pathogens in springtime
- Liu Du-Zhou lecture notes on jueyin
- The famous 13 Princes Formula
- How to outsmart a mosquito
- Herb combinations in ascent and descent
- Lu Du-Zhou: Clinical experience with classical formulae (pt 2)
- Deficiency cold & heat in the Nan Jing
- Lu Du-Zhou: Clinical experience with classical formulae (pt 1)
- Placenta preparation
- The warp and weft of Qin Bo-Wei
- Qin Bo-Wei: Issues in Warm Disease
- Hu Xi-Shu treats painful obstruction
- Paediatric tuina
- A touch of Ling
- Pulse by the Hanging Threads
- The conundrum of the rough pulse
- Feed a cold, starve a fever?
- Practical palpation
- A bitter taste in the mouth
- Comments on Phlegm Syndrome
- Cooling blood and relieving toxicity
Diseases, Formulas, Strategies
More than a decade in the making, The Lantern archive is a goldmine of practical information on everything from the quirky use of herb formulas to the treatment of life-threatening conditions. - Fire not returning to its source
- Two less common uses of Si Wu Tang
- The four reversals: a meditation on Si Ni
- Remarks on Gan Mai Da Zao Tang
- Tang Zonghai on constipation
- Fu Qingzhu’s missing chapter on infertility (pt 3)
- Fu Qingzhu’s missing chapter on infertility (pt 2)
- Liu on Huang Lian E Jiao Tang
- Fu Qingzhu’s missing chapter on infertility
- Insomnia, somnolence and dreaming
- Bai Zhi at Bamboo Forest Monastery
- Zhu Renkang on Eczema
- Gui Zhi Tang or Yu Ping Feng San?
- Song family formulas for uterine bleeding
- Management of diabetes
- Sjogrens syndrome: case histories
- A tale of two orbits
- Ghost points, insanity and evolution
- The three currents of external medicine
- Swollen red sores not always yang heat
- Gui Zhi jia Da Huang Tang
- Qing Gu San to cool the bones
- Static dry blood & Xia Yu Xue Tang
- Treatment of amenorrhea by regulating Heart
- Cough and stress incontinence
- Tao He Cheng Qi Tang – trauma and phlegm
- Zhang Jie-Bin on Dizziness
- Herbs for post glandular fever
- Gui Zhi Tang for abscess on the head
- Cao Ying-Fu on Huang Qi Jian Zhong Tang
- Zhang, on the nose
- Yu Guo-Jun’s treatment for stubborn cough
- Ephedra and Double Cinnamon Decoction
- Clinical logic and Bu Zhong Yi Qi Tang
- Taiyang warm disease
- How to deploy Ma Xing Shi Gan Tang
- Ye Tian-Shi addresses abdominal pain
- Sicca (dry eye) syndrome
- Wen Bing formulas for skin disease
- The use of sour flavours
- Diagnosis in gynae disorders
- Treatment of tailbone pain
- Treating macular degeneration
- Huang Huang on Wen Jing Tang
- Auto-immune factors in infertility & pregnancy loss
- Wu Ju-Tong on wind-warmth
- Menopause: natural process or disease?
- Qing Hao Bie Jia Tang for deficient heat
- Chinese medicine in cancer management
- A formula for esophagitis
- Demystifying Tao He Cheng Qi Tang
- Using Si Ni San
- Bensky on Wu Ling San
- Using Hao Qin Qing Dan Tang
- Wind of the Four Crooks
- Sjogren’s syndrome
- Treating hepatitis and jaundice
- San Ren Tang for damp warmth
- Clinical use of Xuan Fu Dai Zhe Tang
- An exploration of allergic rhinitis
- The removal of blood stagnation
- Three formulas for cough
- Ma Shou-Chun on Li Zhong Tang
- Paediatrics: dealing with fever
- Mitchell on Si Ni Tang
- Treating eructation
- Formulas from the Bamboo Grove Monastery
- Treating focal distention
- Retinal detachment
- Treating vaginal pain
- Grinding teeth
- Li Shi-Zhen on Ma Huang
- Liver yang deficiency
- Cao Ying-Fu uses Di Dang Tang
- Beng lou cases of Ding Gan-Ren
- Explorations into Sjogren’s syndrome
- Progressive muscular dystrophy
- How to use Ma Huang Tang
- Ten cases of sleep-walking
- Palpating for Bu Zhong Yi Qi Tang
- Formulas for vocal cord pathologies
- Fu Yan-Ling treats gastro-intestinal disorders
- Yao Yu-Chen treats chloasma in women
- Cao Ying-Fu on Ge Gen Huang Qin Huang Lian Tang
- Effective treatment of testicular cyst
- Chen Rui-Chun’s use of Wu Ling San
- Notes on the treatment of nightsweats
- Hiatus hernia
- Formulas for wheezing and dyspnoea
- Qin Bo-Wei: Issues in Warm Disease
- Huang Huang differentiates dysmenorrhea
- Bell’s palsy: a case study
- Wu Wei Zi (schisandra)
- Scalp psoriasis & Long Dan Xie Gan Tang
- Hu Xi-Shu treats painful obstruction
- Bu Zhong Yi Qi Tang: a one-week course
- Achilles tendinopathy
- Poor ovarian reserve and high FSH levels
- Polycystic ovaries: a new approach
- Five cases of depleted yin
- Pathogenic influences in the Nan Jing
- Pain syndrome: three cases
- A bitter taste in the mouth
- Comments on Phlegm Syndrome
- Cooling blood and relieving toxicity
Interviews