Where it lives

The essence of Chinese Medicine is this: Follow Nature's rhythms and rules.

Nature's rhythms are the coming and going of the sun and moon and the turning of the seasons... 

Cycles of germination, growth, proliferation, and return to the earth... 

Foraging and hibernation in accordance with light and weather. 

For all creatures, including humans, "Nature's rules" is a set of optimal behaviors and environments as determined over millennia of evolutionary grooming.

It's what we should do, how we should do it, when we should do it, and where we should do it if we wish to function at our best and live in harmony with the world around us.

One of the best ways to discover these rules is to observe - in a scientific manner - human cultures that have persisted for long periods of time in relative harmony and absent significant chronic disease. Cultures who have, through collective effort and some luck, remained relatively undisturbed by the industrializing world.

Modern China, on the whole, is not one of them. Chinese Medicine itself bears the scars of industry and politics.

Once its essence is known, one must look all around the world to find where it lives.

And what it means to live it.