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Welcome to you all. We are happy that you have found this space, The Healing Life, an online resource library for The Healing Order.
We are bringing to life an online space where content that we care about is explored and shared for our community. Whether you are a patient of ours, or you have found us through an online search, we hope that you will be nurtured by what we are putting together here.
The Lift, Part 1
The historic View Point Inn needs to be raised so the earth can be excavated and a solid foundation poured for the below ground spa facilities. It will also serve to strengthen the integrity of the building as a whole. The current basement is only six feet high in places and the current foundation consists of a mix of unstable concrete, stones, and hardened earth — more like an old cake!
The Journey of the Viewpoint Inn
Overlooking the Columbia River Gorge from a beautiful plateau just east of Portland, Oregon, the storied View Point Inn is entering its next incarnation as a world-class place of healing and wellness. As we look forward to its future, we wish to acknowledge the many stories and people who have shared in making it one of Oregon’s most beautiful and historic sites.
A Letter from Heiner Fruehauf
Dear Friends of the Hai Shan Clinic,
This is the first letter I have written to you during the 17 years that we have operated the clinic on our farmstead in Corbett.
Many of you have taken an active interest in our vision to create an expanded version of our small healing center. I wanted you to be the first to know that the View Point Inn, the landmark hotel overlooking the Columbia River Gorge from its unique vantage point right behind the Vista House, is now officially under construction since November 10.
Breaking Ground!
It’s true! Four years after purchasing the historic View Point Inn property and collaborating with a stellar team of architects, engineers, and construction companies to design our dream wellness and healing center, we officially broke ground!
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.
COVID-19 Clinic Policies
The Healing Order remains fully open and functional to in-person visits. We have enhanced cleaning procedures and screen patients for upper respiratory symptoms before arrival. Per the Oregon Governor's recent mandate, we are currently asking all patients, practitioners, and clinic staff to wear a mask while indoors.
Natural Methods to Protect Your Respiratory System from Infection During the Current Flu and Coronavirus Season
Dr. Fruehauf suggests simple natural remedies and approaches for protecting the respiratory system during the current flu season, based on the particular energetics of this time.
Don’t Just Fixate on the Virus: Thoughts from Quarantine in Guilin
A philosophical piece by the author of Classical Chinese Medicine, created in quarantine after leaving the COVID-19 ward in Wuhan. Dr. Liu Lihong suggests that it is time to lighten our investment in the “punitive measures” of modern medicine and shift toward a more unity oriented perspective on health and disease.
Thoughts on Coronavirus Prevention and Treatment with Chinese Medicine
Dr. Fruehauf offers important insights for the Chinese medicine etiology and potential treatment approaches to the coronavirus epidemic using Chinese herbal medicine; based on medical treatment reports from China and his own clinical experience during the recent flu season.
The Role of Chinese Medicine in the COVID-19 Epidemic (transcript)
Transcript of a 2-hour video lecture from a COVID-19 hospital in Wuhan, delivered by the prominent Chinese medicine scholar-physician Liu Lihong. Dr. Liu describes the important role of Chinese medicine in the treatment of this epidemic, and emphasizes the importance of the classical six-phase approach in diagnosis.