Tips for Harmonizing with Autumn from Traditional East Asian Medicine and Acupuncture from your pals Dr. Anne Shelton Crute & Dr. Adam Okerblom
Chinese Medicine
Shen is routinely translated as “spirit” or “heart-mind,” but neither captures its meaning in classical Chinese medicine. Berkeley acupuncturist Anne Shelton Crute looks more closely at the Heart, shen, and what is lost when distinct Chinese medical concepts are collapsed into familiar Western categories.
Yangsheng
A look at Summer Begins (Lixia), the seventh solar qi node in the classical East Asian calendar, and what early summer reveals about yangsheng, food, and the outward movement of life.
Chinese Medicine, Acupuncture, Yangsheng
Most of us are not coordinated in time. We organize our lives by obligation, convenience, and weather. But in the classical Chinese medical view, time is not abstract. It is structured.
