Articles on various topics of Chinese Medicine by Jason Blalack, Chip Chace, and other practitioners.

By: Jason Blalack

• Essentials of Warm Disease (original title: Warm Disease Made Simple) Originally published in The Lantern Volume: VI, Issue: 3 (2009).

• Lurking Pathogens – Three Modern Case Studies. (PDF) (Part I) by Charles Chace, Jason Blalack, and Jack Schaefer. Originally Published in The Lantern (2007).

• Lurking Pathogens – Three Modern Case Studies. (PDF) (Part II) by Charles Chace, Jason Blalack, and Jack Schaefer. Originally Published in The Lantern (2007).

• Case Study: Malaria Like Syndrome due to a Lurking Pathogen. (PDF) By Jason Blalack (This is the unabridged case study from the Lurking Pathogen article published 2007 in The Lantern)

• The Meaning of Etiology, Breakout of Illness, and Pathomechanism in Chinese Medicine. (PDF) Essay by Jason Blalack (2006)

• Diagnosing Pain Beyond Qì and Blood Stagnation A Look at Painful Obstruction (Bi Syndromes) Originally Published in Chinese Medicine Times (2006-2007).

• Toward a Working Methodology for Translating Chinese Medicine By Dan Bensky, Jason Blalack, Charles Chace, and Craig Mitchell (2006)  Reprinted from The Lantern Volume 3 No. 3 (2006).  (2MB)
  * Also Appeared in the AAOM Fall 2006 issue (p. 51-60).

• Lurking Pathogens (a Qing Dynasty case study) Part I (PDF) By Jason Blalack & Charles Chace – Reprinted from The Lantern Volume 3 No. 1 (2006)

• Lurking Pathogens (a Qing Dynasty case study) Part II (PDF) By Jason Blalack & Charles Chace – Reprinted from The Lantern Volume 3 No. 2 (2006)

• Numbness and Tingling (麻木 má mù) Chart breakdown with diagnosis and treatment. (PDF) (2006)

  Encompassing western diseases like: intervertebral disc disease, cervical vertebra or lumbar vertebral joint disease leading to spinal nerve root pathology, rheumatic disease, cerebral vascular sclerosis, neuritis, leprosy, as well as other peripheral nerve issues and spinal nerve and central nervous system disorders.

• Huang Qi through the Tradition of Zhāng Zhòng-Jìng (Zhang Zhong-Jing) (PDF) Reprinted by permission by The Lantern (2005) also published in The Journal of Chinese Medicine (2007). (JCM version) (PDF)

• Stagnation, Depression, Constraint, and Stasis: Terminological Clarification (PDF) (2005)
• Yinfire (yin fire) and its Pathomechanism [Essay] (PDF) (2003)
• Constraint patterns (郁证) – Chart breakdown with diagnosis and treatment (PDF) (2002)
• Cirrhosis of the Liver (肝硬化)- Chart breakdown with diagnosis and treatment (PDF) (2002)
• Food Combining: Myth or Necessity (1999)

By Charles Chace

Discourse on Warm-Heat Disease 温热论 (wen re lun) by (Ye Tian-Shi 葉天士, 1667)

* (Part I) Translated by Charles Chace and Daniella Van Wart

* (Part II) Translated by Charles Chace and Daniella Van Wart

* (Part III) Translated by Charles Chace and Daniella Van Wart

* On Natural Selection: Ruminations on the Roles of Insight & Rationality in Clinical Practice.

* The Error of Our Ways: What Mismanaged Cases Teach Us About the Practice of Chinese Medicine.

* Qin Bo-wei’s Treatment of Liver Depression By Charles Chace and Dan Finney

* Thinking Through Lurking Pathogens: A Pragmatic Approach to Clinical Application

* GHOSTS IN THE MACHINE: Approaching Paranormal Phenomona within the TCM Framework

* Li Dong-yuan’s Gynecology: Excerpted from The Secret Treasury of the Orchid Chamber (Lan Shi Mi Zang) (Three Types of Menstrual Block and Failure of Movement)

* BITTER REALITIES Applying Wenbing Principles in Acute Respiratory Tract Infections by Charles Chace (2000)