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		<title>Doorways</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning, we woke up to cars covered in frost and my husband, son and I spent 15 minutes scraping windows so that we could drive to work and school. My husband told me that he was planning on biking but had run out of time. He said it felt so good to bike yesterday [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Noseless Saddles and Movember</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As it is Movember, and there is much talk about about men&#8217;s health, particularly prostate health, I&#8217;ve been paying a little more attention. So much of  Chinese medical diagnosis, whether &#8220;Classical,&#8221; or  &#8221;Traditional,&#8221; focuses on organ pathology when dealing with erectile dysfunction and other problems related to the male genital area. It is definitely possible for this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts on Regulating the Vitality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Chapter 2 of the Suwen, The Great Theory on Regulating the Vitality During the Four Seasons, describes the behaviors associated with a healthy lifestyle during the various seasonal changes. Because I cannot include footnotes in the translation, this post addresses some of the thoughts and discoveries I had while reading the chapter. Within the first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chai-like Tea</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love drinking Chai tea, especially when it&#8217;s the only thing that tastes as good or better than coffee to me. Instead of being a bitter and draining drink, it&#8217;s a warm and nourishing drink&#8230;especially good for the Autumn and Winter. My friend, Josh Green, makes one of the most delicious versions I&#8217;ve ever tasted. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fun at the Wu Family Shrines!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am always excited to find a fun and educational technological experience &#8211; often because they are few and far between. I came across an interactive recreation of the Wu Family Shrines a few months ago. This was designed by Anthony Barbieri-Low, a professor at Princeton University who specializes in the &#8220;social, economic, legal and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Herma &#8211; wha???</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hermeneutics. That&#8217;s what. It&#8217;s an odd word and it&#8217;s meaning is one that has been argued again and again by overly-intellectual philosophers since at least the time of Plato. I suppose the next question is: What exactly does this weird old word have to do with Chinese medicine? This is something we might ask Jason [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nǚs (女) in our Medical History</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The pun IS intended as it is seriously news to me if there are any famous females (女) in our Chinese medicine history! This often makes it hard to be a female student learning this medicine. For all the men reading this, can you imagine if you heard about all day long about the women [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Still Night Considerations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am, by no means, adept at translating Classical Chinese literature &#8211; much less classical Chinese poetry. However, I can&#8217;t help but try anyway. I was thinking about Li Bo the other day, and a poem that I read in my undergrad Mandarin classes with Jonathan Pease. I couldn&#8217;t remember the exact name of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wu Mei Into Wan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was recently prescribed a formula from the Shang Han Lun: Wu Mei Wan (烏 梅 丸). The indications for this formula can be found in Line 338 of the SHL. It consists of Wu Mei, Asarum, Dried Ginger, Coptis, Dang Gui, Aconite, Szechwan Peppers, Cinnamon twig, Ginseng and Phellodendron. We know Mume as the [...]]]></description>
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