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Featuring eight renowned TCM masters, it tells eight inspiring stories of healing, showcasing how TCM offers an alternative approach to global health challenges.

Good health is a universal pursuit. The bilingual micro-documentary Eastern Wisdom: Stories from Traditional Chinese Medicine bridges cultural differences through a sense of common humanity.

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For some women, this offers a non hormonal option that can sit alongside medical care as part of a broader treatment plan. As we recognise Endometriosis Awareness Month, access to safe, evidence based care options matters.

Endometriosis affects a lot of women, and pain is one of the most common and challenging symptoms. Recent research is adding to the evidence showing acupuncture may help support the management of endometriosis related pain.

Home | Neijing Nature-Based Medicine Postgraduate mentorship trainings in Neijing Nature-Based Medicine, based on the core material of the Huangdi Neijing, with Dr. Edward Neal.

To find out more about Dr Neal and his teachings, visit dr. Neal's website neijingstudies.com

Home | Neijing Nature-Based Medicine Postgraduate mentorship trainings in Neijing Nature-Based Medicine, based on the core material of the Huangdi Neijing, with Dr. Edward Neal.

An in-depth conversation with Dr Edward Neal, physician, researcher, and founder of Neijing Nature Based Medicine. about the roots of Chinese medicine through the lens of the Huangdi Neijing and what this classical text can teach us about clinical practice today.

Home | Neijing Nature-Based Medicine Postgraduate mentorship trainings in Neijing Nature-Based Medicine, based on the core material of the Huangdi Neijing, with Dr. Edward Neal.

Neijing Nature Based Medicine: Returning to the Root with Dr Edward Neal

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This unprecedented event opens the door to further scientific inquiry, exploring the mechanisms and health benefits of long-term fasting.

At its core, Bigu operates on the premise that a body full of Qi (vital energy) would eliminate hunger. Throughout the challenge, participants engage in intensive mind-body exercises to maintain their composure and vitality.

As an official CCTV documentary, this story carries significant weight, offering both credibility and scientific insight into the practice of Bigu—a tradition deeply rooted in Buddhism and Daoism with a history spanning thousands of years.

Selected from a pool of over 4,000 applicants nationwide, these Bigu challengers' personal narratives are as inspiring as they are revealing.

living in a glass house without solid food for 28 days. Their remarkable feat, under the vigilant watch of the press and healthcare professionals, not only shattered records but also shed light on the age-old practice of "Bigu" or not-eating.

YouTube video by Kevin Chen CCTV Documentary - Bigu - The Secret of Not Eating (with English Subtitle & Narration)

"Bigu: The Secret of Not Eating" is a captivating documentary showcasing the extraordinary journey of a group of 9 individuals (alongside 99 practitioners symchronized outside) who bravely embarked on a ground-breaking challenge:
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Matthew Bauer | Substack Began Taoist studies in 1978 and became an Acupuncturists in 1986. Worked full-time as sole support for family of four. Got involved with acu-orgs because I thought they would work on public education...

Matthew Bauer, president of the Acupuncture Now Foundation, has an interesting blog: acuguy.substack.com

Saving the Acupuncture Profession While Helping Millions.

YouTube video by Acupuncture Now Foundation Getting to the Point - Episode 1 "Children's Hospital of Orange County"

Brought to you by the Acupuncture Now Foundation and Doug Dearth, this touching documentary chronicles the stories of two young boys diagnosed with brain cancer who were cared for at the Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC) in the city of Orange, California.
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The book methodologically joins approaches across a number of fields, including science studies, art history, postcolonial studies, to rethink cultures of objectivity that complicate normative geographies of the "east" and "west."

Body Maps reveals the critical role that improvisation played in creating nerves and how nerves emerged as an unreliable object of modernity to explain meridians.

While scholars have debated on the imaginary and metaphorical attributes of Chinese medical anatomy, these debates assume the stability of biomedical anatomy.

among others, made sense of invisible anatomical structures. The book grapples with how representations of jingluo 經絡 (“meridians”) became comparable to nervous anatomy, and in most cases, relegated as nervous anatomy.

Body Maps is a long global history of anatomy through hand-drawn images. It examines sources from the 10th to the 20th centuries to compare how medical practitioners from historical communities in Kaifeng, Dejima, Amsterdam, Berlin, Petrograd, Beijing,

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Li's film and media work has involved collaborations with medical practitioners across Shanghai, Mumbai, São Paulo, New York, Boston, Houston, and Baltimore. Li produces podcasts and exhibitions exploring acupuncture, Buddhist medicine, and metaphors in science and medicine.

Dr. Li is now Assistant Professor in the Department of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, with joint appointments in the East Asian Studies Program and Department of History of Science and Technology.

Dr. Li holds a Ph.D. in History, Anthropology, and Science Technology and Society Studies from MIT. After serving as a Presidential Scholar in Society and Neuroscience at Columbia University and teaching in the medical humanities program at Rice University,

YouTube video by Lan A. Li Body Maps, The Book

Lan A. Li is a historian and filmmaker specializing in global East Asian techniques and technologies.
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YouTube video by Heiner Fruehauf Chinese Herbal Strategies for Neurodegenerative Disorders: Lyme, MS, Parkinson’s & ALS

Dr. Heiner Fruehauf presents foundational principles of Classical Chinese Medicine to a group of functional medicine physicians specializing in neurodegenerative disorders, including, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis (MS), chronic Lyme disease and ALS.
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The three experienced herbal practitioners discuss how they use the same herbs in different ways in their own traditions. Herbs discussed include ginger, cinnamon, fennel seed and turmeric.

Chinese herbalist, Alex Jacobs hosts a unique cross-herbal tradition roundtable discussion with Ayurveda practitioner, Dr Ayu Sathyavathi S. and pan-herbal tradition expert Simon Mills at the University of Bristol Botanic Garden.

Have you ever wondered what the difference between the way Chinese, Ayurveda and Western herbalists think?