Driving Out the Demons and Snakes: Gu Syndrome, A Forgotten Clinical Approach to Chronic Parasitism
This presentation is an attempt to participate in the process of ‘medical archaeology’ by exploring one of the submerged areas of Oriental medicine, namely the complex and variegated clinical approach to the diagnosis and treatment of Gu syndrome (gu zheng). A review of the modern research literature shows that this topic has remained virtually unexplored in both China and the West. A close examination of the original texts illuminates the mysterious concept of Gu syndrome as a valid clinical approach that may potentially provide an answer to the many invisible ‘demons’ that plague patients in a modem age, namely systemic funguses, parasites, viruses and other hidden pathogens.
Chinese Medicine in the Covid Wards
The New York Review of Books published New York Times reporter and China expert Ian Johnson’s review of Liu Lihong’s 'Classical Chinese Medicine’ (Sikao Zhongyi) that we helped to bring into the world years ago. Our translation is the only Chinese medicine publication ever reviewed by this illustrious and prestigious organization!
All Disease Comes From the Heart: The Pivotal Role of the Emotions in Classical Chinese Medicine
Most modern clinicians find that a majority of their patients suffer from the symptom complex generally referred to as “stress.” Emotional stress, however, is usually regarded as a confounding rather than a causative factor in pathophysiology. This assessment is contrary to the tenets of classical Chinese medicine, which originally regarded emotional imbalance as a spiritual affliction of primary significance. While ancient Chinese philosophy considered emotional sensibility as our greatest asset in the process of fulfilling human destiny, it also regarded human temperaments as our greatest liability due to vast pathogenetic potential.