Zhong Yi College

Medicine of the Center: Online Training Program in Classical Chinese Medicine

Zhong Yi College is an online school, taught primarily through asynchronous modules, designed to teach a system of healing using non-invasive modalities, based in the Chinese Medical theory of the Han Dynasty classics.

Students study the lectures at their own pace, and are supported their entire journey through regular one-on-one contact with a mentor. In-person intensive seminar options will be introduced at a later date.

In the Foundation level, students learn the classical theory and diagnosis that has been the cornerstone of the last two thousand years of clinical practice of Chinese Medicine.

At the same time, they will develop a daily experiential energetic practice, which will train the necessary qualities for treating patients with the hands, and without the use of needles.

Our program is rooted in close study of the Han Dynasty Classics of Chinese Medicine: Nei Jing Su Wen 內經素問, Nei Jing Ling Shu 內經靈樞, and Nan Jing 難經. We teach the theory of traditional Chinese Medicine, rather than Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), the Chinese government-sponsored modern integration of Chinese and Western medicines.

The curriculum is additionally inspired by the teachings of the enigmatic non-dualist Bái Yuán 白猿, who transmits a conceptual system, delivered through a framework of Classical Daoist and Chinese fundamental principles.

Zhong Yi College: Medicine of the Center

While acupuncture-moxibustion and herbal medicine are the most commonly employed tools of Chinese Medicine today, the Nei Jing is quite clear about the equal importance of five different therapeutic patterns related to the five cardinal directions:

故治所以異而病皆愈者,得病之情,知治之大體也。

Hence, if what one uses for treatment is different, and the disease is healed in all [cases] nevertheless, [then] one has grasped the nature of disease and one knows the entire complex of treatment.

Su Wen 12, trans. Unschuld

The therapeutic modality one uses for treatment to heal disease includes, according to Su Wen 12, the “guiding-pulling 導引 [daoyin] and pressing-lifting 按蹻 [massage]” of the Center cardinal direction.

Zhong Yi 中醫 is the term used today to describe Chinese Medicine. When translated more literally, it can be read as ‘Center Medicine.’ Zhong Yi College is dedicated to teaching high quality Chinese Medicine, rooted in Han Dynasty classical theory, applied through the treatment modalities of the center: the Center Medicine.