After a weekend packed full of sightseeing and exploring Hong Kong, I was eager to start classes. Today we learned about the basics of TCM, including the theories of yin and yang and the five elements. A second lecture focused on how TCM views the structure of the human body. I am most struck by the similarities between the ancient view, based in nature and founded on observations and the western one based on autopsies and scientific experiments. I also find the concepts of the triple burners very interesting, defining those areas of the human form that don’t correlate to organic structures.Katherine Gonzalez (TCM Journal March 9, 2009)
Photography by Rick Allen
