Jin Gui Yao Lue: Alchemy for Complex Diseases
Start date End date Location Website
07/09/2025
19/07/2026
Zoom webinars (recordings available all year)
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Subject

1 year training program

Speaker(s): Genevieve Le Goff practices and teaches an ancient form of Chinese medicine that has its roots in the Classical Era of Chinese history (Han dynasty and prior). After graduating from the Academy of Chinese Culture and Health Sciences and passing the California State Board exam, Genevieve continued training in midwifery and gynecology, and received extensive post-graduate training in Classical Herbal Formulation at the Hunyuan Institute and at the Institute of Classical East-Asian Medicine. She practices at the crossroads of two sister lineages she apprenticed in, the Fire Spirit School and the lineage of Tian (Bawei) Heming, who followed in the tradition of Zhang Zhong Jing's Shang Han Za Bing Lun 傷寒雜病論. Her practice focuses entirely on classical herbalism, with a specialization in fetal-maternal medicine. Genevieve is constantly engaged in research and study to further her ability to help her patients; she is currently engaged in graduate research at UC Berkeley, focusing on the translation and philological analysis of medical texts from the Warring States period to the early Han dynasty. She teaches in the clinical doctorate programs at Five Branches University and Yo San University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and directs a state and nationally accredited continuing education program for licensed acupuncturists, bringing prominent scholars, sinologists and clinicians to the Bay Area to teach seminars. She has been designing and teaching continuing education curriculum accredited in the USA, UK, Australia and New Zealand. Her lectures are attended nationally and internationally.​​

Genevieve Le Goff

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Zhang Zhong Jing 張仲景's work aims to reverse damage to life. His contributions, more than 2000 years later, continue to tremendously improve the lives of patients. Please join Genevieve Le Goff, Shang Han Za Bing Lun and Fire Spirit School practitioner, in this wonderful year-long exegetic study of the entire Jin Gui Yao Lue 金匱要略. ​ The Jin Gui Yao Lue 金匱要略 , or Essential Remedies from the Golden Cabinet, presents the final attainment of Zhang Zhong Jing 張仲景’s theories on Cold Damage and 6 conformations. ​ Originally written as a companion to the Shang Han Lun 傷寒論 , and including much discussion of theory and pulses, something mostly absent from the latter work, this masterpiece takes a cross-sectional look at disease, dissecting each in terms of disease category, etiology, progression and treatment. While the Shang Han Lun teaches simple transmutations from one conformation to others, the Jin Gui Yao Lue offers a study of complex diseases, which involve several conformations and transmutations over time. As such, it is a treasure of solutions for the complicated or chronic clinical pictures we commonly see in the clinic. It also represents the perfect application and achievement of 6 conformation theory. This online course proposes to undertake the exegesis of the Jin Gui Yao Lue, chapter by chapter, clause by clause, illustrated by many case studies. (Please note, although previous exposure to the Shang Han Lun is encouraged, it is not required as we will cover theory at length!) As a primer, in the first 3 sessions will study the theory of classical physiology and formula architecture as transmitted by the Nei Jing內經, Zhang Zhong Jing, Wang Shuhe 王叔和, Tao Hong Jing 陶弘景, and later Fire Spirit 火神派 School physician Zheng Qinan 郑钦安. This introduction will include a study of the entire Tang Ye Jing Fa 湯液經法, as transmitted by Tao Hong Jing in the Fu Xing Jue 辅行诀 . As one of the seminal texts of canonical formula architecture, understanding its contents, in the context of the Su Wen 黃帝內經素問, offers many insights into Zhang Zhong Jing’s use of flavors as agents of change and repair, externally versus internally contracted disease, the use of a system based on 5 versus a system based on 6, and a general understanding of medicine as a cosmologically based practice. After these sessions, we will continue with the main body of the course: reading of the Jin Gui Yao Lue, exploring each clause in detail with analysis and supporting case studies. Discussing the causes, etiology, symptoms and treatments of all the patterns in each disease category will constitute the bulk of our study. For a detailed syllabus of each chapter, please see here. ​​​​ The aim of this course is to cultivate clinical acumen rooted in lineage old efficacy, while fostering an appreciation of the more arcane aspects of Chinese medicine theory. We propose: • impeccable knowledge of Jin Gui Yao Lue formulae • the ability to inscribe this knowledge into precise and accurate differential diagnosis • treatment strategies for a great many diseases, from mundane to complex • to let natural philosophies of the pre-Han eras, ancient astronomy and history inform our understanding of physiology, so as to obtain a clearer understanding of 6 conformation and 5 flavor theory

Booking information

https://www.betweenheavenandearth.org/jin-gui-yao-lue-formulae-for-complex-diseases.html

Open to

Practitioners and students of Chinese medicine around the world; sinologists

Cost

$1800 students $2200 practitioners Payment plans are available - $200 early bird discount before July 1st

Last Updated

2025-05-30 21:24:39