Before Modern TCM: Classical Chinese Medicine and the Roots of Terrain Theory with Tommy Hughes
About this episode
Tommy Hughes discusses the principles of Classical Chinese Medicine and its relation to Terrain Theory.
Long before modern TCM was standardized, systematized, and filtered through a biomedical lens, Classical Chinese Medicine described health as harmony...not the absence of pathogens, but the presence of balance. In this conversation, Tommy Hughes walks us back to the original canon — the Huangdi Neijing, the language of Qi, the cosmology of seasons, and the principle of treating what is not yet diseased. We explore the distinction between pathogenesis and salutogenesis, why ancient physicians ...
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