Research Wiki
60 pages across 7 groups.
Concepts (20)
- Dreaming, Sleep, and the Hun Rooted in the Liver
- Emotion Theory — organ-emotion mapping and the anger overemphasis critique
- Fire Agitates Shen and Hun; Phlegm Obstructs the Shen
- The Five Shen (Spirits) — shen, hun, po, yi, zhi
- Gallbladder Qi, Courage, and GB-40 Qiuxu
- The Heart as Emperor — Confucian and Neo-Confucian School of Mind
- Herbs vs Acupuncture — division of labor in combined practice
- Hun Movement Pathology — coming-and-going too much (mania) vs too little (depression)
- Hun — the Ethereal Soul
- Insight and Its Loss — the spectrum from normal to psychosis
- Kidney Zhi and Depression — willpower, drive, and the Room of Germination
- Liver-Qi Free Movement — the physical equivalent of Hun movement
- Po — the Corporeal Soul
- Pulse Diagnosis in Mental-Emotional Cases
- Remedy Selection — ben/biao, xu/shi, and the "what do I want this remedy to do?" method
- Shen — the Shen of the Heart: the Mind
- Sour-Astringent Herbs That Root the Hun
- The Three States of the Shen — weakened, unsettled, obstructed
- The Three Treasures — Jing, Qi, Shen
- Tongue Diagnosis in Mental-Emotional Cases
Critique (7)
- Critique 2 — "Hun Not Coming-and-Going Enough" as a Depression Model
- Critique 7 — The General Method of Mapping TCM onto Neuroscience
- Critique 1 — The "Shen-as-Mind not Spirit" Translation Argument
- Critique 3 — "Phlegm Obstructs the Shen" vs Cognitive Symptoms
- Critique 6 — Evidence Strength of the Suan Zao Ren Research
- Critique 4 — Tongue Cracks and Pulse Signs as Diagnostic Evidence
- Critique 5 — Evidence Strength of the Xiao Yao San Depression Research
Debunking (6)
- Debunking Critique 3 — Depression Evidence: Acupuncture and Chinese Herbs
- Debunking Critique 2 — The Diagnostics Don't Reproduce: Pulse and Tongue Reliability
- Debunking Critique 5 — The Five Shen as Unfalsifiable Constructs
- Debunking Critique 4 — Placebo, Expectation, and the Psychology of the Ritual
- Debunking Critique 6 — Synthesis: What the Debunking Literature Establishes About This Lecture
- Debunking Critique 1 — The Vitalism Base: Qi, Meridians, and Acupuncture Points
Formulas (13)
- Breaking Clouds — Qi deficiency (spleen and kidneys)
- Bright Spirit — liver-heart stagnation with phlegm
- Clear the Soul — phlegm-heat in the heart and lungs
- Drain Fire — drains fire, calms the Hun
- Ease the Muscles — resolves dampness (post-viral fatigue context)
- Freeing the Sun — the Xiao Yao San family (liver-Qi stagnation with heat)
- Nourish the Soul — the Suan Zao Ren Tang family (liver yin/blood deficiency)
- Open the Heart — plum-stone syndrome, heart/lung stagnation
- Release Constraint — the Yue Ju Wan family (liver-Qi stagnation, depression)
- Root of Spirit — liver blood/yin deficiency with empty heat
- Search the Soul — liver blood and liver Qi deficiency, depression
- Settle the Soul — drains liver and heart fire, resolves phlegm
- Strengthen the Root and Nourish the Root — kidney yang / kidney yin tonics
Herbs (3)
Modern Mapping (8)
- Maciocia's Mapping to Consciousness Levels and Jung — Edelman, higher-order consciousness, anima/animus
- Maciocia's Mapping to Mirror Neurons — the Po, empathy, and the sense of self
- Maciocia's Shen/Hun Mapping to the Prefrontal Cortex
- Yang & Morris — Shen Harmony and neuropsychiatry
- Sleep and Dream Neuroscience — the REM mapping of the wandering Hun
- Suan Zao Ren Mechanism Research — the GABA/5-HT pharmacology of jujube seed
- Xiao Yao San Mechanism Research — the modern pharmacology of a Song-dynasty formula
- Yuan Zhi Mechanism Research — Polygala's pharmacology