Chinese Medicine for the Modern World, by E Douglas Kihn

About the Author E Douglas Kihn is a Doctor of Oriental Medicine and a wellness coach with over three decades of experience teaching and practicing Chinese medicine. He is also the author of BodyTrust, Avoiding Death Indefinitely, and The Workbook of Chinese Herbs. He is also the producer of BodyTrust Weekly on YouTube. Dr. Kihn lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

CHINESE MEDICINE for the

MODERN WORLD Ancient Wisdom to Stop Worrying, Hurrying, and Overeating

E DOUGLAS KIHN, D.O.M.

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Disclaimers No advice in Chinese Medicine for the Modern World should be understood to substitute for emergency medical care in emergency medical situations.

The names and specific details of case studies have been changed. Any reference to persons living or deceased is purely accidental and unintentional.

CONTENTS Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Part One: The Basic Language and Theory Chapter 1: The Duality Theory of Nature: Yin and Yang. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Chapter 2: Eight Principles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Chapter 3: The Five Substances. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Chapter 4: The Five Element Theory of Nature.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Chapter 5: Qi Pathways and the Internal Organs.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Part Two: Pathology Chapter 6: Pathology of External Origin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Chapter 7: Pathology of Internal Origin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Chapter 8: Defining the Modern Syndrome. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

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Part Three: Defeating the Modern Syndrome Chapter 9: Diagnosis and Treatment in the Twenty-First Century. . . . . . . 185 Chapter 10: Defeating the Modern Syndrome with Wellness Coaching. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205 Conclusion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243 Bibliography. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245 Further Resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247 Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

The physician who teaches people to sustain their health is the superior physician. The physician who waits to treat people after their health is damaged is considered to be inferior. This is like waiting until one’s family is starving, to begin to plant seeds in the garden.

—Yellow Emperor’s Classic on Internal Medicine, 500 BCE

INTRODUCTION Today, what we need is a system of medicine and health care in which emergency medicine and Chinese medicine partner up, for the benefit of everyone. Why Chinese medicine? It is time-tested, user-friendly to learn and use, usually gentler and safer than emergency medicine, universally applicable, and it connects mind, body, and environment into an understandable whole for the benefit of both patients and healers. Chinese medicine is the spearhead of the modern wellness movement, which seeks to revolutionize health care in a most positive direction.

I began my study of Chinese medicine in the fall of 1984 at Emperor’s College of Traditional Oriental Medicine in Santa Monica, California. Like many of my classmates, I fell in love with the language, theory, and application of this ancient medical system that is so profound and, at the same time, so sensible and universal. Graduating from the Master of Science program at Emperor’s College, I went on to earn the Doctor of Oriental Medicine degree from SAMRA University in Los Angeles. Early in 1988 when I became a Licensed Acupuncturist in the state of California, I remember telling myself, “Every day after this is ‘Christmas.’”

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While building up my clientele, I taught Chinese medicine at several schools in the Los Angeles area. I discovered that my areas of greatest interest and expertise were the subjects of Chinese medical theory and Chinese herbology. My first book, The Workbook of Chinese Herbs, was and is a memorization guide for students struggling to commit to memory the hideous amount of data required for their herbology classes and for state and national licensing exams.

Chinese Medicine for the Modern World is a summation and a refinement of lessons gleaned from two decades of teaching and three decades of clinical experience in Southern California, and is expressly written for three audiences.

Beginning students of Chinese medicine in economically-advantaged societies are my primary concern; I want them to start off on the right foot so that their careers will be successful and productive, and so they can participate in the expansion of Chinese medicine throughout the modern world. Patients and prospective patients of Chinese medicine will also benefit greatly from reading this book, as it will enable them to participate in their own healing processes. The third audience is practitioners of Chinese medicine, most of whom need their discipline translated and applied to health problems in the world of the twenty-first century.

The publication of Chinese Medicine for the Modern World will help to accomplish three goals: The popularization of the language and theory of Chinese medicine everywhere, so that Chinese medical theory replaces or at least co-exists with emergency/bio-medical theory in people’s minds; a thorough reorganization of the field of healthcare in which preventative and holistic disciplines replace medical doctors in cases other than emergencies, while the latter continue their move into the emerging realm of genetic research and genomic medicine; and a comprehensive reform of the teaching and practice of Chinese medicine itself, wherein this ancient medical wisdom is adapted to the unique health problems of our modern world.

Features and Benefits of Chinese Medicine for the Modern World In part one, you will become fluent in the basic language and theory—the “landscape”—of Chinese medicine. Every discipline has its own vocabulary and concepts specific to it, and Chinese medicine is no different.

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Part two will introduce you to the subject of pathology—diseases and injuries common to populations in the modern world. Here in the language of Chinese medicine, you will understand how unhealthy habits like worrying, hurrying, and overeating cause us mental and physical pain while making us sick, tired, and overweight.

In part three, you will discover practical steps that you can take to address the deep-rooted causes of disharmony and effect real cures that reach beyond helpful but temporary measures such as acupuncture, herbal prescriptions, pharmaceuticals, and surgery. You will worry less or not at all. You will slow down to smell the roses. You will be leaner and stronger when you have finished this course of wellness study.

Toward the end of every chapter, you can quiz yourself on the questions provided.

Finally, each chapter features a short section at the end and occasionally throughout called Take Action. These suggestions and steps you can take will help you to cement the material into your memory as well as improve the quality of your life.

The Modern Syndrome A medical syndrome is a group of signs and symptoms that forms a recognizable pattern of disharmony. The health problems we find in our modern world are unique, compared to problems encountered throughout the history of prerevolutionary rural China. These modern health disorders are curiously uniform and easily categorized into a pattern I have labeled the modern syndrome. This uniformity simplifies pathology to such a degree that beginning students and interns should have no trouble arriving at accurate diagnoses and treatment plans.

The culture of advanced industrial societies is clearly one of excesses.

Excessive behavior, i.e., consumerism, is portrayed as a virtue, but in reality it is a plague on our mental and physical health. From cradle to grave, we are expected to follow the norm of faster, busier, bigger, richer, smarter, stronger, prettier, younger, and hipper than our neighbors and parents. Enough just never seems to be enough. People end up worrying more, hurrying more, and eating more than ever before. The unfortunate result is that in spite of the fact that we have plenty of food, good hygiene, emergency services, clothing,

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antibiotics, and the rest, we are mentally and physically sicker than our grandparents and sick in ways that were never conceived of in historical China.

The Introduction of Chinese Medicine to the West Chinese medicine crossed the Pacific in the 1800s with Chinese immigrant workers and gold prospectors, and it remained largely confined to the ChineseAmerican population until its legalization and regulation in California in 1975.

After that date, regulatory agencies, schools, and clinics started popping up in the United States and elsewhere like forest mushrooms after a rainstorm.

The implementation and growth of Chinese medicine in the modern world, and especially the clinical training and theoretical underpinnings, were led mainly by Chinese medical people. The textbooks, the school curricula, and the license testing were developed by doctors in and from East Asia, as was right and proper.The theory and practice of Chinese medicine in the Western world is still to this day heavily influenced by people from China and other parts of East Asia.

What this means in practice is that most licensed acupuncturists/herbalists in advanced economies in the West have been trained to treat medical problems associated with rural populations in ancient and modern China—problems that are often the result of scarcities rather than the excesses we moderns contend with daily.

Chinese Medicine for the Modern World will correct these errors and omissions.

Emergency Medicine and Chinese Medicine Emergency medicine is quick-fix medicine, as it should be. Using drastic and heroic methods such as pharmaceuticals and surgery to save lives, limbs, organs, tissues, and minds is its great and unparalleled strength. Emergency medicine’s natural partner is Chinese medicine, a time-tested, user-friendly, and comprehensive system that employs gentle methods that in the absence of emergencies harness the body/mind’s own healing capacities for chronic, minor, or nonemergency problems.

Both medicine types have their own logic and language. It is critical that you as a beginner keep these two theoretical systems separate. Chinese medicine is less concerned with physical anatomy than it is with connections and relationships—what we might call energetic physiology. We see everything as

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connected—mind, body, head, toe, emotions, thoughts, actions, every tissue, every organ, our environment, and all things that exist in our universe. Thus, Chinese medicine is a self-contained system of medicine that must be studied and learned within its own logical boundaries.

To cite just one example, mistakes can and will occur if we try to equate the functions of the anatomical liver (emergency medicine) with the energetic liver (Chinese medicine). Your anatomical liver detoxifies various metabolites, synthesizes proteins, supplies digestive biochemicals, regulates glycogen, decomposes red blood cells, and produces hormones and bile. Except for the production of bile, your Chinese liver (gan) does none of these things. Instead, liver-gan stores blood; governs eyes; dominates the genitalia, brain, flank, and rib cage regions; nourishes connective tissues; flourishes in the springtime and between the hours of 1 a.m. and 3 a.m., and perhaps most importantly, is responsible for the free flow of qi throughout the body/mind. Qi is that substance that animates everything in the universe. In the human body, qi courses along channels to affect every area. Naturally, “liver qi� travels along the liver meridians acting like an office manager, making sure everyone else has everything they need for healthy functioning.

I will sometimes combine Chinese terminology and emergency terminology when explaining a concept. For one thing, my long experience allows me to glide back and forth between the two medical languages without getting confused. But even more importantly, most folks I want to reach probably understand a little emergency theory and no Chinese theory. I need to transition them gradually and gently from the old way of thinking to the new.

And now, as you begin your journey into the amazing world of Chinese medicine, I want to introduce you to the foundation of it all, the study of yin and yang.

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PART ONE The Basic Language and Theory One great advantage Chinese medical language and theory has over emergency medical language and theory is its ease of comprehension for all people. Chinese medicine is user-friendly and universally applicable.

Everyone should become a patient or a student of Chinese medicine.

I expect that the words and concepts in part one will one day become the lingua franca of health care in most of the world.

CHAPTER ONE The Duality Theory of Nature: Yin and Yang The origins of yin/yang theory are shrouded in mystery. The seemingly obvious connections between night and day, cold and hot, passive and active, female and male, and the rest probably go back to the Stone Age, and are found in many native traditions on every continent. In China, the earliest written mention of the duality of nature—without the terms yin and yang—occurs in the I Ching, originally a divination manual of the Western Zhou period (c.

1000–750 BCE).1 The theory of opposing elements takes even greater shape with the beginning of Taoist philosophy, espoused in the Tao Te Ching, and composed by the sage and statesman Lao Tzu around the sixth century BCE.2 Taoism forms the basis of not only Chinese medicine but Chinese schools of martial arts and many meditational exercises such as taiqi and qigong as well.

In a famous medical text called The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine written more than two thousand years ago, it was stated, “Yin and yang are

1M ichael Nylan, The Five “Confucian” Classics (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001), 228.

2 Stefan Stenudd, Tao Te Ching: The Taoism of Lao Tzu Explained (Malmo, Sweden: Arriba, 2015).

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the laws of heaven and earth, the great framework of everything, the parents of change, the root and beginning of life and death.”3

Taijitu

This famous symbol, the taijitu, is a graphic representation of the relationship between yin and yang, in which yang is represented by white and yin is represented by black.

What Is Yin?

Yin

The Chinese character for yin means literally “the shady side of the hill.” What do we find on the shady side of the hill? We find cool material. In fact, cold temperature and material are incarnations of one another.

Yin = material plus cold When cold is added to steam for example, the H2O molecules concentrate into the heavier thicker matter known as water.

Steam plus cold = water

3M aoshing Ni, The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine: A New Translation of the Neijing Suwen with Commentary (Shambala Publications, Inc, 1995).

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From another direction, when more material in the form of H2O molecules is added to steam, the temperature of the steam goes down until it becomes liquid water.

Steam plus H2O molecules = water

As more cold is added to the water, it freezes into something even more material, more yin—ice. Ice is more yin—has more material and coldness— than liquid water, and liquid water is more yin—has more material and coldness—than steam.

What Is Yang?

Yang

The Chinese character for yang means literally “the sunny side of the hill.”

What do we find on the sunny side of the hill? We find warm movement.

Actually, heat and movement are avatars of one another.

Yang = movement plus heat When heat is added to ice, the H2O molecules speed up their activity and the ice melts into liquid water.

Ice plus heat = water Conversely, when the H2O molecules that make up ice are vigorously moved against each other, they create friction, which generates heat and thus liquid water.

Ice plus movement = water As more heat and movement are added to the water, the H2O molecules disperse into something even more immaterial, more yang—steam.

Water is more yang—has more movement and heat—than ice, and steam is more yang than water.

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Comparing Yin and Yang Yin is the mountain, and yang is the mist swirling around it.This duality of yin and yang can be extended into every aspect of nature. See if you can figure out the following comparisons. yin moon cold slow substantial mountain quiet earth lower weak nourishing Eastern culture indirect opaque inside dark night down ice female

yang sun hot fast insubstantial mist loud sky upper strong protective Western culture direct transparent outside bright day up fire male

The duality of yin and yang can also be seen in the area of human health. Read the following chart and see if these areas of comparison make sense to you. yin chills fat heavy watery sleep feeling instinct listening

yang fever skinny light dry wakefulness thinking intellect talking

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yin waiting pale tongue slow pulse estrogen clear profuse fluids depression play

yang acting red tongue rapid pulse testosterone yellow scant fluids agitation work

The Relationships Between Yin and Yang Referring back to the taijitu on a previous page, you can visualize at a glance the various ways in which yin and yang interact.You will need to learn these relationships by heart.

• The circle is a symbol of All. The circle encloses everything.

Everything = yin and yang.

• The two parts are equal. The area occupied by shade (yin) is equal to the area occupied by nonshade (yang). One is not more important than the other. The universe contains equal parts yin and yang.

• Yin and yang are in constant movement. This two-dimensional symbol is a kind of optical illusion that suggests that the disc is continually revolving, developing, and changing.

• Yin and yang are mutually antagonistic. The symbol suggests that yin is eating up yang, and vice versa.

• Yin and yang are mutually supportive.Yin provides a frame from which yang can hang, and vice versa.

• Yin and yang become one another. As yin consumes yang, it becomes more like yang, and vice versa.

• There is no such thing as pure yin or pure yang. The small dots within yin and yang remind us of this fact.

Notice that the final point puts Chinese medicine somewhat at odds with most medical systems, including holistic ones, in that we are not searching for purity or perfection. We do not make a fetish out of “cleansing” or “detoxing.”

Our sole aim is balance—achieving the balance between yin and yang, which requires constant alertness and adjustments.

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Balance Chinese medicine asserts that optimal health of the human organism as well as the universe is the result of yin and yang in balance. Unlike many other medical and philosophical traditions, Chinese medicine does not seek purity of yin and yang, nor does it elevate one over the other with the ultimate intention of eliminating or surpassing one or the other. All medical energies are focused on this one task: the balancing of yin and yang inside the human body/mind.

Visualizing yin and yang with graphs The following graph illustrates the healthy balance between yin and yang.

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Healthy Balance

Now let’s look at the first graph that illustrates disharmony. Below left is a representation of a situation of excessive yin, such as happens when a person is carrying too much body fat—excess material—or has accidentally swallowed an ice cube—excess cold.

Yin

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Yin

Yin Overpowers Yang

Yang

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Too much yin will eventually overpower and weaken yang. This is represented by the graph on the right. Excess weight—yin—will drag down a person’s energy level—yang and if a person swallowed too much ice, it could possibly develop into a case of hypothermia, extinguishing that person’s life fire/yang.

Eventually, both yin and yang become deficient and unstable, since yin comes from yang and yang comes from yin. In this situation, the person is very sick, weak, emaciated, and near death.

The graph below represents this dangerous emergency condition.

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Danger

The end result is the same when excessive yang overpowers yin, as represented below.

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Yang Overpowers Yin

A high fever or too much mental/physical movement—excessive yang— will burn out the yin, eventually leading to a near-death situation of yin and yang deficiency, as illustrated in a previous graph, repeated here.

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Conclusion As you delve deeper into your study of Chinese medicine, you will find the concepts of yin and yang repeating continually and endlessly. Before you dive into chapter 2, make sure your understanding of yin/yang theory is solid.

CHAPTER 1 STUDY QUESTIONS Yin and yang. The answer key is at the end.

1. Too much mental and physical movement

a. will b. will c. will d. will

lead directly to excess yin. lead directly to deficient yang. eventually burn out the yin. necessitate the need for vitamin supplementation.

2. From the list in the chapter, which would be considered yang?

a. Rapid pulse b. Estrogen c. Sleep d. Play 3. From the list in the chapter, which is yang?

a. Eastern culture b. Day c. Opaque d. Mountain 4. Optimal health is the result of

a. yin and yang being in balance. b. yin and yang becoming one another. c. yin and yang being in excess. d. the judicious use of herbs and acupuncture, and a balanced diet.

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5. From the list in the chapter, which would be considered yang?

a. Depression b. Pale tongue c. Yellow scant fluids d. Heavy 6. Which is most yang?

a. Water b. Ice c. Earth d. Steam 7. From the list in the chapter, which is yin?

a. Moon b. Sky c. Direct d. Loud 8. Which of the following statements is not true?

a. The universe contains equal parts yin and yang b. Yin and yang are in constant movement c. Yin and yang are mutually antagonistic, not supportive d. There is no such thing as pure yin or pure yang 9. An excess of yin will eventually

a. weaken the yang. b. cause mania. c. become an excess of yang. d. resume a normal level.

10. From the list in the chapter, which would be considered yin?

a. Thinking b. Acting c. Fat d. Fever

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11. From the list in the chapter, which would be considered yin?

a. Intellect b. Work c. Skinny d. Listening 12. The Chinese character for yin, literally translated, means

a. cold. b. female. c. shady side of the hill. d. sunny side of life.

13. Yang equals

a. cold plus material. b. excess body fat. c. male. d. movement plus heat.

14. Excessive body fat is considered

a. a deficiency of yin. b. a deficiency of yang. c. an excess of yin. d. an excess of yang.

15. When both yin and yang become deficient,

a. the person needs to take a rest. b. the person needs more nutritious food. c. they will eventually turn into excess conditions. d. the person is near death.

16. One major advantage that Chinese medicine has

over emergency medicine is a. its ease of comprehension by the public. b. that it works fast. c. that it treats emergencies. d. that it always gets results.

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17. Water, compared to steam, is

a. highly energetic. b. yin. c. wetter. d. drier.

Chapter 1 answer key 1. c 2. a 3. b 4. a 5. c 6. d 7. a 8. c 9. a 10. c 11. d 12. c 13. d 14. c 15. d 16. a 17. b

Take Action Yin/yang theory changed me from a worry-wart to a calm man. Every time something “bad” happens to me, I know in my heart of hearts that something “good” will come from it, and it always does. Conversely, every time something “good” happens to me, I watch for the inevitable “negative” consequences.

Nothing knocks me for a loop or destroys my sense of calm anymore; I’m ready for anything. Personally, I liken my life to watching a movie. From moment to moment, I feel a full range of emotions, but deep down, I know it’s just a movie.

The beauty of yin and yang theory is its relative and ever-changing nature.

As you incorporate it into your core being, you will notice how much easier it is to go with the flow, to not get hung up on matters small and large that inevitably transform into their opposites, and to forgive yourself and others for not being “perfect” and “pure.” To this end, I highly recommend you get ahold of The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff.4 Read it cover to cover. Become a Pooh bear.

4 Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh (Chicago: The Penguin Group, 1962).

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PREVENT & CURE MODERN DISORDERS with ANCIENT CHINESE MEDICINE This unique and comprehensive guide revolutionizes the way Chinese medicine is used and taught in the twenty-first century. Such an ancient system might seem outdated for contemporary life, but this book reveals how it’s actually perfect for modern concerns—everything from stress caused by social media to round-the-clock access to rich and fatty food to anxiety over endless checklists and responsibilities.

Chinese Medicine for the Modern World discusses six common syndromes with a focus on the three internal problems of liver qi stagnation, heart heat, and spleen damp. To heal these syndromes, author E Douglas Kihn offers practical strategies and specific directions for substituting unhealthy habits with healthy ones. Discover the Five Elements, the Eight Principles, and the twelve primary channels. Explore hands-on exercises, chapter study questions, clarifying images, and more. This exceptional book helps you understand and utilize the amazing possibilities of Chinese medicine for current times.

E DOUGLAS KIHN, D.O.M., is a doctor of Oriental medicine with thirty-five years of experience practicing and teaching Chinese medicine. He is the author of BodyTrust, Avoiding Death Indefinitely, and The Workbook of Chinese Herbs, and he’s the producer of two YouTube shows—BodyTrust Mornings and BodyTrust Weekly. He lives and works in West Los Angeles, California, and can be contacted through his website at www.GoBodyTrust.com.

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