Chinese Medicine 101 Start With The Foundations (Chinese Medicine Basics Book 1)

 

C HINESE MEDICINE 101: S TART WITH THE F OUNDATIONS 

Part one of a two-part journey into understanding Chinese Medicine

By Cat Calhoun, MAcOm, L.Ac.

Cats TCM Notes Press San Miguel de Allende, Mexico

Chinese Medicine 101: Start with the Foundations

 

 For DeLora, my sunshine and my rest Thank you with all my heart for your supporting and for sticking with me through Chinese Medicine School!

Chinese Medicine 101: Start with the Foundations

 

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

 No one does anything truly on their own. I thought myself totally self-sufficient before I dove into the study of Chinese medicine. When that journey began, my eyes opened to the myriads of those who were actively helping me, those who have gone before, and even those who will come long after I’m gone. We are interconnected. You are me, I am you. I especially want to thank Dr. Qianzhi Qianzh i Wu, my teacher and o one ne of the wisest souls I have ever encountered. Thank you for your wisdom and your teaching, for your patience and guidance, for the gift of Qigong which I would not no t have seen with the bea beauty uty that it is without you showing it to me. Thank you to Master Junfeng Li, my Shengzhen Qigong teacher. Qigong kept me sane and healthy in school and for this I thank you. Thank you to Lisa Lapwing, a most awesome practitioner based in Orlando Florida. We studied together, practiced together, we practiced on each other in student clinic, and then we became each others’ practitioners! Not having Lisa in my daily life is my one giant regret about moving to Mexico. Thank you to my buds: Donna “Needles” Tatum, Tiffany Chiu Peralez, Vanessa Olsen, Andi Kohn, Mark Hernandez, and Katherine Webster. To Georgie a kick assonpractitioner and fellowyou! computer geek, I thank thee! To Rita Ramirez, I would NOT  wouldHoiseth,  NOT  want  want to be this journey without And to so may more who have loved, supported, and believed in me, I express my gratitude and thanks. May the deity of your choice look favorably upon you all! Cat Calhoun

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