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Gavin McClure traces history and practice of Chinese medicine in Missoula lecture
Summary
Acupuncturist Gavin McClure gave a roughly 84-minute public lecture in Missoula outlining the historical origins, philosophical roots and key practices of Chinese medicine, promoted an upcoming hands-on class at Good Medicine Clinic, and answered audience questions about acupuncture and herbs.
Gavin McClure, an acupuncturist and Chinese medicine practitioner at Good Medicine Clinic in Missoula, told a Saturday morning audience that “history is not simply the study of the past. It is an explanation of the present,” and used that line to introduce a lecture tracing Chinese medicine from animistic origins through classical texts to modern practice.
The lecture reviewed major historical periods and texts—including the Huangdi Neijing (Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic), the I Ching, the Shang Han Lun and the materia medica attributed to Shennong—and outlined how Chinese ideas about seasons, yin-yang and meridians shaped acupuncture, herbalism and related therapies.…
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