When you first learn about patterns of Heat during your study of Chinese medicine, it seems that what is being described is inflammation. (I will be capitalizing the word Heat…

Prepared Rehmannia (Shu Di Huang) is one of the most well-known herbs in Chinese medicine. It is the emperor of the famous Six Ingredient Rehmannia Pill or liu wei di…

There's a pretty cool piece of interactive 3D media over here that is useful in visualizing the relationship between the physical organs in the abdomen: https://www.healthline.com/health/human-body-maps/stomach#1 I labeled the first…

I have pulled together a few resources on the pre-modern use of Cannabis in various cultures, including 19th- and early 20th- century American medicine. Doctors and herbalists of all stripes…