Eight Gates - Classical Herbalism & Acupuncture
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I have a Doctorate from the National University of Natural Medicine (NUNM) and have received extensive training in Classical Chinese Herbalism and Acupuncture.
I am happy to announce that I see patients in person at Docere Integrated Medicine in Auburn, WA. We are a membership-based, integrated direct primary care clinic, specializing in naturopathic, chiropractic, hyperbaric, and East Asian medicine.
I specialize in Classical Chinese Medicine to treat a wide variety of acute and chronic conditions including: chronic pain, cardiac disease, autoimmune conditions, acute muscular/skeletal pain and injuries, gastrointestinal problems, skin problems, acute/chronic insomnia, anxiety and mental health/mood disorders, and men's/women’s reproductive health issues and infertility.
My approach combines personalized medicine with intervention and education in diet, lifestyle, meditation, and exercise to empower patients to affect positive change in their own lives.
I am happy to announce that I see patients in person at Docere Integrated Medicine in Auburn, WA. We are a membership-based, integrated direct primary care clinic, specializing in naturopathic, chiropractic, hyperbaric, and East Asian medicine.
I specialize in Classical Chinese Medicine to treat a wide variety of acute and chronic conditions including: chronic pain, cardiac disease, autoimmune conditions, acute muscular/skeletal pain and injuries, gastrointestinal problems, skin problems, acute/chronic insomnia, anxiety and mental health/mood disorders, and men's/women’s reproductive health issues and infertility.
My approach combines personalized medicine with intervention and education in diet, lifestyle, meditation, and exercise to empower patients to affect positive change in their own lives.
What are the Eight Gates?
The Eight Gates, 八門, are the cosmological foundation of Chinese Calendrical Astrology and basis for the “Qi Dynamics” of Classical Herbalism and Acupuncture in ancient China. These Gates are the eight times of the Year which rectify the Qi of planet Earth and its inhabitants — the four annual times of Equinox and Solstice and the four equidistant times between them, which mark the onset of Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter.
These movements of Time create the basic movement patterns of everything—expanding in the Spring, which we call Wood, ascending in the Summer, which we call Fire, descending in the Fall, which we call Metal, and contracting in the Winter, which we call Water. All movement is defined and harmonized by a neutral fulcrum, which we call Earth.
These movements produce our environment, and therefore they produce us. We are a microcosm of Nature; we are Nature. When we flow with Nature, we thrive. When we flow against Nature, we generate dis-ease. Our conduct in relation to Nature produces all illness and all healing.
Classical Chinese Medicine (CCM) assume that the Human body has the natural capacity to heal itself, but sometimes we need a little help to get moving in the right direction.
Classical Chinese Medicine stimulates the natural Qi Dynamics of the body through five methods or "branches"—movement/exercise and meditation practice, dietetics and natural eating, massage therapy, acupuncture, and herbology, which together offer a complete path to well-being.
I hold a Doctorate in Classical Chinese Medicine from NUNM and offer customized treatment through all five of these methods, informed by my practice of Chinese Astrology.
I specialize in the practice of Chinese Herbalism in a long line of traditions inspired by the works of Zhang Zhongjing, Sun Simiao, Li Dongyuan, Ye Tianshi, and Zheng Qinan, which I received from my primary CCM mentors—Bryan McMahon, Heiner Fruehauf, Brandt Stickley, Joon Hee Lee, and many others at the National University of Natural Medicine.
These movements of Time create the basic movement patterns of everything—expanding in the Spring, which we call Wood, ascending in the Summer, which we call Fire, descending in the Fall, which we call Metal, and contracting in the Winter, which we call Water. All movement is defined and harmonized by a neutral fulcrum, which we call Earth.
These movements produce our environment, and therefore they produce us. We are a microcosm of Nature; we are Nature. When we flow with Nature, we thrive. When we flow against Nature, we generate dis-ease. Our conduct in relation to Nature produces all illness and all healing.
Classical Chinese Medicine (CCM) assume that the Human body has the natural capacity to heal itself, but sometimes we need a little help to get moving in the right direction.
Classical Chinese Medicine stimulates the natural Qi Dynamics of the body through five methods or "branches"—movement/exercise and meditation practice, dietetics and natural eating, massage therapy, acupuncture, and herbology, which together offer a complete path to well-being.
I hold a Doctorate in Classical Chinese Medicine from NUNM and offer customized treatment through all five of these methods, informed by my practice of Chinese Astrology.
I specialize in the practice of Chinese Herbalism in a long line of traditions inspired by the works of Zhang Zhongjing, Sun Simiao, Li Dongyuan, Ye Tianshi, and Zheng Qinan, which I received from my primary CCM mentors—Bryan McMahon, Heiner Fruehauf, Brandt Stickley, Joon Hee Lee, and many others at the National University of Natural Medicine.
Me on pilgrimage to China, bowing to Zhang Zhongjing at Ren Zhitang Herbal Sanctuary.