The best way to find out what tu3xue4 means: Learn Chinese medical Chinese!

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All,

 

We are glad to announce a new session of the Online Course in Chinese Medical

Chinese.

 

The course will help you to develop a deeper understanding of concepts in

through the study of characters and their use in classical

texts. It guides you in your studies of the basic vocabulary of Chinese

Medicine. The characters are traced to their origins, and placed in the context

of medical classics such as the Neijing and Nanjing, by close reading of

citations from those texts.

 

To give you an idea about what can be accomplished by following this course: We

have formed a small group of students who successfully finished blocks A, B, and

C and are in the process of translating Tang Zonghai's Xuezhenglun (On Blood

Patterns). In this text are presented descriptions and pathologies of vomiting

of blood, retching of blood, expectoration of blood, and coughing of blood – all

different things! As soon as we have presentable versions of these sections of

the text, we'd be happy to share them here. I mention this because of the

recent discussion here on CHA.

 

A detailed description of the course can be found at

 

http://www.paradigm-pubs.com/HermanAd

 

For practitioners in the US of A completion of Block A of this course entitles

you to 100 PDA (CEU) points approved by the NCCAOM and by the Acupuncture Board

of the State of California. The course is also open to students.

 

For questions, feel free to email me at: hermanoving(at)gmail(dot)com

 

We are aiming to begin the new Block A in February, once a group of a minimum of

eight students has been established. Please note that places are limited; the

maximum number of students is twelve.

 

Best wishes in general, and for this New Year in particular!

 

Herman Oving, in cooperation with Paradigm Publications/ Redwing Books.