The Min Jie Formulary Companion A Series of Systematic Deconstructions of the Chinese Pharmacopoeia : Series One: Category Volume Six: Channel Numbers by Category

What does number have to do with traditional Chinese medicine? We’re talking about biological science here, aren’t we? Where does number come in?Prescribing herbs is something like doing geometry. We know what we need to do, we just need to discover the most elegant, efficient and effective means to do it. In this light, the practice of our medicine is very much like an exercise in geometry.The biological science of traditional Chinese medicine is based on reestablishing and properly maintaining the healthy interconnections and relationships between what is overtly biological inside the body with what is covertly biological outside the body. Each becomes the other to form a biological continuum. How does number relate to this continuum? Numbers define relationships.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 sixth part, focuses on the deconstruction and reconstruction of category. This volume focuses on the deconstruction and reconstruction of channel numbers by category. Read more