Abstract
Classical Chinese medicine carries astronomy as part of its ecopsychosocial world view. Zhang Zhongjing dated recovery to each division’s time of day, the pulse turns on a daily solar circuit, and the eight extraordinary vessels chart an interior architecture that answers to the celestial period. This half-day course recovers that correspondence and makes it clinical. Three movements give equal weight to three sites where sky meets body. First, the Shang Han Lun resolution-time passages, where each channel recovers during its own window in the daily solar cycle. Second, the pulse read as a daily solar arc, qi rising on the left from chi to cun and descending on the right from cun to chi, one revolution of the sun traced under the fingers. Third, the opening and coupled point formulas of the Qi Jing Ba Mai, read as celestial structure rather than rote pairing. Practitioners leave able to read resolution timing, the solar pulse, and vessel selection through a single cosmological lens.
Introduction
On completion, participants will be able to:
1. Identify the six-channel diurnal resolution windows in the Shang Han Lun and apply the time-of-day correspondence to treatment timing and recovery prognosis.
2. Trace the diurnal solar circuit of qi across the two hands, ascending left from chi to cun and descending right from cun to chi, and oberve pulse position and quality in the daily cycle.
3. Select among the eight extraordinary vessel opening and coupled point formulas using their celestial-structural logic.
4. Integrate resolution timing, the solar pulse, and vessel selection through a single cosmological framework in clinical reasoning.
Speaker Biography
Dr. William R. Morris
William Morris, DAOM, PhD, has practiced Classical Chinese Medicine for forty-five years. He carries the Menghe-Ding lineage, the "blood river of teaching" transmitted through the Ding family of Jiangsu. He is the author of Neoclassical Pulse Diagnosis, Li Shi-Zhen Pulse Studies, Transformation: Treating Trauma with Acupuncture and Herbs, and Cycles in Medical Astrology, and he is at work on the multi-volume Sky Medicine series, a synthesis of celestial medicine across traditions. He has served as president of AOMA Graduate School of Integrative Medicine, led engagement with the World Health Organization on the ICD-11 traditional medicine codes, and built three doctoral programs and three institutional review boards. He teaches and writes from the East Shore of Kootenay Lake, British Columbia.
