GRADUATE MENTORSHIP PROGRAM 2023
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GMP 2023 LIBRARY
2023 Course Resources
FORUMS
Association for Traditional Medicine
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PRESENTATIONS
Dr. Huang teaches and practices classic formulas from the Shang Han Lun tradition in Nan Jing, China. A group of us studied with Dr. Huang in Nan Jing in October of 2007. We asked that he return to offer more of his profound perspective on Chinese herbal medicine. This seminar is designed to give the previous participants a deeper understanding of Dr. Huang’s teachings as well as to give new students a clinically relevant study of Dr. Huang’s classic formula and body type approach.
Dr. Huang relies almost solely on classic formulas from the Shang Han Lun in his own busy practice in Nan Jing. His approach to diagnosis is based on body types. There are 10 main body types based on the leading herbs in the classic formulas. For example there are Gui Zhi, Chai Hu, Ban Xia, Fu Zi….etc. body types. The concept of body type extends to personality as well. For more information about Dr. Huang’s body type approach you can read several articles about it in The Lantern including this article on Wen Jing Tang by Sharon Weizenbaum, and this Interview with Michael Max. In addition you can read more at Classic Formulas with Michael Max.
Handout 1 | Handout 2 | Handout 3 | Handout 4 | Handout 5
Wen Jing Tang is a formula in the Jin Gui Yao Lue’s chapter 22 on Women’s Diseases. It is in the sub-chapter on Flooding and Spotting: Deficiency Cold Stasis.
In the Part 1 of the presentation we will look at Wen Jing Tang through both the lines in the original clause of the Jin Gui Yao Lue as well as through an in depth view into the architecture of the formula ingredients and structure.
Some scholars and practitioners have characterized this formula as a Jue Yin formula because it is a blood formula. It has also been placed in the Jue Yin category because it treats heat above and cold below. Another classic formula scholar, Huang Huang places it in the “Gui Zhi formula family” and considers it a primary beauty and fertility formula. Formulas and Strategies places it in the “invigorate blood” chapter. The most important reason for understanding where to place Wen Jing Tang in our own repertoire is so that we can use it adeptly in the clinical setting.
How do the various ways this formula is thought of all help us penetrate the magic of this formula?
In Part 2 of the presentation Sharon will give case studies from her own practice to illustrate the wide range of illnesses Wen Jing Tang can treat including but beyond women’s health. This material will be supplemented by other case studies from a range of renowned physicians, translated specifically for this course by Sharon.
JOURNALS
GMP BOOKS
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