The Min Jie Formulary Companion: A Series of Systematic Deconstructions of the Chinese Pharmacopoeia Series One: Category Volume Four: Channels by Category

If there is anything truly unique and special about traditional Chinese medicine, it is the understanding and exquisitely detailed mapping of the territories of the channels, their functions and pathologies. Other dimensions such as taste and temperature are shared by nearly all indigenous medicine systems, but this gorgeous entanglement of energies, functions, tissues and physiological systems is what makes our system shine.There are many gems in the Chinese pharmacopoeia that are hidden in plain view. One of the best ways to grasp these hidden gems is by systematically deconstructing the entire pharmacopoeia and going through a process of discovering how this extraordinary material can organically reassemble itself into different forms.The Min Jie Formulary Companion series is a systematic deconstruction of the Chinese pharmacopoeia based on Category, Taste, Temperature, Territory, Internal Relationships and Number. The first series, of which this is the fourth part, focuses on the deconstruction and reconstruction of category. This volume focuses on the deconstruction and reconstruction of channels by category.The contrasts between channel territories and categories give us the down-and-dirty basics of where an herb is going in the body and what it’s going to do once it gets there. Every miracle cure from a magic formula that I have seen has boiled down to a single methodology, which is a very precise application of the qualities of the herbs to an incredibly detailed utilization of the channel territories. This book is one of the best ways to study and apply these vital relationships. Read more