Asian Medicine Zone

The Mistranslation That Changed Chinese Medicine

If you’ve ever heard that Chinese medicine is based on the "Five Elements," you’ve witnessed a translation error that fundamentally misrepresents the…

Dec 7 • 

Pierce Salguero

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May 2025

Mapping Ancient Medicines: Digital Tools Reveal Forgotten Drug Geographies in Early China

By Michael Stanley-Baker

May 3

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March 2025

What Could be Wrong with Meditation?

By Abi Millar

Mar 4

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January 2025

The Spectrum of Buddhist Healers in the U.S.

This article examines the current state of American Buddhist healing based on ethnographic interviews with 36 practitioners across the US. My central…

Jan 22 • 

Pierce Salguero

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December 2024

Discovering Historical Evidence of Yoga in Southeast Asia

By David Wells

Dec 22, 2024

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October 2024

Traditional Medicine in Southern Laos: A Documentary

By Elizabeth M. Elliott

Oct 23, 2024

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September 2024

Attitudes Toward Covid-19 Vaccines among Asian Medicine Practitioners in the US

We had hypothesized that differences between practitioners’ attitudes — and, in particular, their opinions about vaccines — would be connected with…

Sep 8, 2024 • 

Pierce Salguero

October 2020

Alternatives to Oriental-ism

By SJ Zanolini

Oct 20, 2020

Meta-Approaches to Asian Medicine, Part 4: A Polyperspectival Asian Medicine Practice

This post explores in depth how polyperspectivalism leads to greater conceptual flexibility, and therefore more clinical options, when treating…

Oct 16, 2020 • 

Pierce Salguero

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September 2020

Meta-Approaches to Asian Medicine, Part 3: A Metamorphic Approach to Asian Medicine

What matters is that we never allow ourselves to fall into the trap of thinking that we’ve discovered a final answer to what all of this really means…

Sep 18, 2020 • 

Pierce Salguero

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August 2020

Meta-Approaches to Asian Medicine, Part 2: A Metadisciplinary Approach to Asian Medicine

Interdisciplinarity has failed as a model for collaboration in the study of Asian medicine. Here, I propose the new model of “metadisciplinarity” as a…

Aug 1, 2020 • 

Pierce Salguero

July 2020

Meta-Approaches to Asian Medicine, Part 1: A Metamodern Approach to Asian Medicine

The traditional Asian medicine community has a communication problem.

Jul 13, 2020 • 

Pierce Salguero