Just in time for Leap Day, this is the first in a series of articles that my mentor Dr. Kezhen Zhang of Beijing Tai Ji Tang Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital will write about the Meridian System in Traditional Chinese Medicine and published in Acupuncture Today. I'm honored to be his translator for these articles and I hope that his revolutionary ideas will help the TCM professionals and the scientific research community take a second look at existing experimental design for research into the Meridian system.
Footsteps of the Sages: An Apprenticeship with Dr. Kezhen Zhang
This is an article that I wrote for Acupuncture Today (November 2015) about my experiences apprenticing with Dr. Zhang in China. He is a brilliant practitioner and I am very fortunate and honored to have had the chance to study with him.
Footsteps of the Sages: An Apprenticeship with Dr. Kezhan Zhang
June 2015, with Dr. Kezhen Zhang in his office.
Marilyn Allen Visits Beijing Tai Ji Tang TCM Hospital
Here is an article on Xinhuanet about a meeting I mediated and interpreted for while studying in China with Dr. Zhang at his hospital this past May/June, 2015:
Article is in Chinese. Here is a quick summary:
World renown traditional medicine experts Marilyn Allen, Rachel M Brooker, and Eric Raymond Buckley visited Beijing Taijitang hospital and experienced TCM diagnosis and treatment first hand. They showed great interest in acupuncture theory and Chinese herbal medicine.
Dr. Kezhen Zhang feels that TCM is receiving more recognition worldwide, although there are still difficulties facing wider acceptance and the promotion of TCM, such as how to truly integrate TCM with WM and modern sciences, as well as how standards for TCM theory and clinical practice should be established. For example, there is no accepted standard for how meridians should be measured or even whether or not they are an objective existence. Therefore, setting up such a standard should be of the utmost importance.
June 2, 2015. Marilyn Allan and other delegates visit Dr. Zhang and Traditional Chinese Medicine representatives in China.