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Shang Han Lun
This book is equally as important as the Nei Jing as a foundation to Chinese medicine. This book was written by Zhang Zhong Jing around 300 A.D. It contains the theory of Six Channel Diagnosis, and is the first book that explains differential diagnosis. The counterpart of Shang Han Lun is Jin Gui Yao Lue.…
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San Jiao diagnosis
One of several different systems of diagnosis in Chinese medicine. This system can be contrasted with Six Channels diagnosis, Four Levels diagnosis, Eight Principles, and Zang Fu diagnosis. San Jiao diagnosis deals with the invasion of the body by damp External Pathogenic Factors. It outlines how a pathogen invades the body from the exterior levels…
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San Jiao
One of the six Fu organs. The San Jiao is a series of pathways in the human body that are used to distribute fluids and Yuan Qi throughout the body. The human body is divided into three areas, or Jiaos. They are the Upper Jiao, the Middle Jiao, and the Lower Jiao. The San Jiao…
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San
When seen in the name of a Chinese herbal formula, this word usually means that the formula is prepared as a powder. For example: Yin Qiao San or Dao Chi San.
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Self-actualization
The achievement of your full potential through creativity, independence, spontaneity, and a grasp of the real world. The highest level of personality development. A self-actualized person recognizes his or her roles in life and uses personal strengths and attributes to the fullest. The successful development and use of personal talents and abilities. According to Maslow,…
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Sattva
The universal quality representing purity, clarity, and potential energy. It illuminates you with knowledge, wisdom, compassion, and enlightenment. Fresh vegetables, fruit, certain grains, and easily digestible meals are considered sattvic. One of the three gunas of Prakruti, sattva denotes light, clarity, purity of perception,-it is the essence of pure awareness. The quality of nature reflected…
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Stolon
A stem that grows erect from the base of a plant and then curves over, touching the ground at the tip. It produces new plants from buds at its tip or nodes. Vegetative shoot spreading along the surface of the ground and rooting at the nodes, where it may give rise to new plantlets; (In…
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Stigma
The upper part of the pistil of a flower that receives the pollen grains and on which they start to grow. The part of the female structure of a flower that receives the pollen grains. The pollen receptor on the gynoecium, which may be either sessile on the ovary or on top of the style…
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Stamen
Male reproductive part of a flower. The structure of a flower that produces its pollen. The male organ of a flower, the male sporophyll, consisting of a stalk (filament) bearing the connective and container(s) (anthers) that bear the pollen. The male organ of a flower, consisting of an anther usually on a filament. One of…
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Sporophyte
The structure in certain plants that produces spores for the nonsexual phase of the alternation of generations. (In pteridophytes) diploid (usually) plant that produces spores. The spore-bearing stage of a plant exhibiting alternation of generations.