by symills | Oct 25, 2021 | the herbslinger posts
Practitioners from all old traditions of medicine agreed on one priority in managing illness: most trouble originated in the gut. To understand this focus it helps to explore some of the imagery our ancestors used for disease. In the ancient view the main enemy of...
by symills | Oct 25, 2021 | the herbslinger posts
We are coming round to the ancient view that the digestive system really is the seat (Latin: fundament) of many health problems. This should not be surprising. The gut wall is where we are most exposed to contact with the outside world (mainly our food). It is...
by symills | Sep 19, 2021 | the herbslinger posts
In the wake of Covid-19 an app was developed that turned out to be very efficient at diagnosing the infection by the quality of its cough. This continues a long tradition among older physicians of diagnosing different chest infections by the type of cough: they could...
by symills | Sep 18, 2021 | the herbslinger posts
In the earliest medical texts the spleen often features, with many important functions ascribed to it. In Chinese medicine it is literally central, known as pi and one of the major solid (yin) organs. It is the internal manifestation of the Earth element (tu),...
by symills | Sep 14, 2021 | the herbslinger posts
Look through any account of traditional medicine from communities living close to nature (eg Native American, African and Australian peoples, the Maori, ancient Britons and Welsh, middle European, and Siberian cultures, and island communities everywhere) and it is not...
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