Scholarly Resources
Growth & organisation of resources
In keeping with our professed goal, we have collected ancient and modern textual resources for our library —articles that we have published in the past— the criteria for selection being that they should be both clinically useful and interesting. We try to represent as many of the specialty departments of Chinese medicine as possible, and preserve them here for reference.
Our Scholarly Resources will continue to grow. Although not every article published in the hard-copy journal will appear here in full, they will all be made available in CD-ROM format after our fifth year.
Our online resources are organised into four major divisions: Classics, Acupuncture, Specialist departments, and Yang Sheng, with each major division having two or more sub-divisions. Below we briefly describe each major division and its sub-divisions so that you can find what you need.
Classics
We use the term "classics" broadly to include not only the standard texts of the Chinese medical canon, but also other ancient texts and historical aspects of Chinese medicine.
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Internal Medicine
Internal medicine (nei ke) is the general practice of Chinese medicine, in which one must be competent no matter which specialty one might focus upon. It is "internal" in contradistinction to external medicine (wai ke) which includes all trauma and skin lesions. Thus even though a pathogen might invade via the exterior of the body, this invasion impacts the internal functioning and is thus considered in the province of internal medicine. As with all categories, the separation is rather artificial, and mainly exists for convenience in discussion.
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Acupuncture
Channel theory, needling techniques, individual practitioner experience, moxibustion, cupping and associated techniques.
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Specialist Departments
Chinese medicine has benefited from focused practice in many areas, notably gynaecology, paediatrics, and orthopaedics, but also dermatology.
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Yang Sheng
The preservation of health, rather than simply the treatment of disease, is a major characteristic of Chinese medicine, strongly differentiating it from modern biomedicine. Related to this is the enhancement of the quality of life in all its breadth and depth, the cultivation of a practitioner’s ability to access the essence of this medical tradition for clinical inspiration, and the promotion of an integrated harmony of jing, qi and shen in both doctor and patient.
We will therefore have articles on therapeutic movement, breathwork, Daoist perspectives and techniques, martial arts and other approaches to self-cultivation, as well as cultural materials aimed at enriching life experience.
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Viewpoints
Everybody has a viewpoint: we share ours and others through editorials, book reviews, interviews and miscellany.
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Horizons
Chinese Medicine has a long tradition with roots in the very distant past, however, because it is a living tradition it also has a present and a future. In this section we will look, in the present and with appreciation for the past, towards that future.
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Materia Medica
Medicinal substances are the basic tools involved in any Chinese medicine treatment outside of acupuncture. If one only knows a single use for a herb, this is insufficient to be considered competent in the use of that herb; one should know the secondary use at the minimum, and really should not be content until a tertiary use for each tool is second nature. The old doctors knew their tools so well that each formula would be an example of concentrated elegance: each herb employed with four or five levels of use considered, each of these levels reinforcing an action of two or more of the few other herbs in the formula.
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Lantern Archive
Here we have listed the articles that appeared in each of our past issues. If that article appears in our Resources section somewhere, there is a hyperlink to it. Individual articles that are not included in the Resources section may be purchased in PDF format if desired; see the Subscription page.
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Resource Search
Our Resource Search function is very rapid, but at present allows only for simple searches using a single keyword. Like most search engines it may turn up parts of a word (e.g. a search for "Ante" may deliver results for "Lantern"). Nonetheless, used skillfully it can greatly facilitate the use of our resources for your study.
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