Chinese herb actions are by no means arbitrary. The actions are rooted in the tastes and nature of the herbs as described in the materia medica classics and as proofed by centuries of clinical application. When herb classics like the Divine Farmer’s Materia Medica recorded these basic qualities; and theoretical classics like the Yellow Emperor’s Internal Canon instructed on their therapeutic indication and application, they came to clinical maturation in medical manuals like the Treatise on Cold Damage... Learn More

The physiology course is a newly compiled seminar to gather all pertinent knowledge to the canonical view on physiology from the perspectives of yin yang, six conformations, three layers, etc, to facilitate better understanding of how the Han dynasty classic of the Shanghan Zabing Lun viewed the workings of the human body. This course groups and further develops all physiology discourses from the previous trainings in a convenient one seminar format. This then allows the SHL Basic Patterns seminar to be fully dedicated to the various pathologies of the six conformations...

The nineteen patterns, most commonly known as the Nineteen Lines on Pathology, are considered to be the most authoritative instructions on classical etio-pathology and the only discourse where a differentiation method based on the five phase energetics is presented... Learn More

This course is the instruction of specialized Materia Medica and formula studies in the service of canonical Chinese medicine as practiced by Zhang Zhongjing in the Shanghan Lun and the Jingui Yaolue... Learn More

The Treatise on Cold Damage shanghan lun and the Essentials of the Golden Cabinet jingui yaolue are considered the ancestral books on formulaic science in Chinese medicine... Learn More

The Treatise on Cold Damage shanghan lun and the Essentials of the Golden Cabinet jingui yaolue are considered the ancestral books on formulaic science in Chinese medicine... Learn More

The Treatise on Cold Damage or Shanghan Lun is one of the most prominent Eastern Han-dynasty (circa CE 200) classics in Chinese medicine and the first clinical handbook in China’s medical history. It is also the center of the Canonical Chinese Medicine Training... Learn More

The Treatise on Cold Damage shanghan lun is the oldest surviving clinical handbook in the history of Chinese medicine. Written by Eastern Han dynasty (circa 200 CE) imperial envoy Zhang Zhongjing, it is an integral part of his collective writings once labeled the Treatise on Cold Damage and Complex Diseases shanghan zabing lun... Learn More

Japanese abdominal diagnosis or Fukushin is the diagnostic art developed in medieval Japan based on the canonical writings by Zhang Zhongjing. Careful inspection of the Shanghan Zabing Lun reveals countless references to abdominal conditions that could only have been diagnosed by actual palpation of the abdomen... Learn More

The Shanghan Zabing Lun or the Treatise on Cold Damage and Complex Diseases is considered the forefather of all formula books. The original work was lost to the tooth of time, but most of its contents are preserved in two extant works called the Treatise on Cold Damage shanghan lun and the Concise Essentials of the Golden Cabinet jingui yaolue... Learn More