Institute of Classics in East Asian Medicine® Application of the Shanghan Lun Formulas Along the Five Movements and Six Qi System of the Neijing April 6 – 10, 2019 Welcome Kongress Hotel, Mußstr. 7, 96047 Bamberg, Germany Tel: +49 (0) 951-7000-0 Presented by: Tyler Rowe, MS, DCCM, LAc Dr. Arnaud Versluys PhD, MD (China), LAc ‘Five Movements and Six Qi’ wuyun liuqi 五運六氣is the common name of a theoretical system that documents patterns in meteorological changes observed during the sixty year Chinese calendar, and how these changes affect human beings subject to these influences. The system also describes basic guidelines for the herbal medicine treatment of the conditions caused by these six influences. The theory was documented in chapters 66-71 and 74 of the Suwen. These seven chapters, which make up approximately one third of the entire text, originally existed as a separate work titled the Yinyang Dalun 陰陽大論 or Great Treatise on Yin and Yang which was referenced in Zhang Zhongjing’s preface to the Shanghan Lun. The chapters were rediscovered after being lost between Han and Tang dynasties and added back into the corpus of the Neijing by Wang Bing in his 762 CE edition. The Shanghan Lun is […]