Blog Welcome to Healing Medicine: How to Use This Site
Welcome to Healing Medicine: How to Use This Site
Start here. What Healing Medicine is, why posts are grouped into series, and how to get the most value from the Foundation, Four Layers, and Alice’s Journey.
Healing Medicine is a welcoming, research‑informed space where Western precision and Chinese pattern‑recognition come together. We translate across paradigms to help you see the whole picture, rebuild resilience and rhythm, and make clearer choices for care. You will find foundational essays, the Four Layers framework, and Alice’s real‑world story to learn how integration improves outcomes.
How to use this site
Start with the Foundation series to learn the core ideas we’ll reference everywhere else.
Move into the Four Layers framework to understand how regulation, flow, transformation, and structure interact in health and disease.
Read Alice’s Journey for a real‑world narrative that shows how fragmented care creates new problems, and how whole‑systems thinking brings coherence.
Use Tags at the top of each post to jump to related topics or practical guides.
Skim the Key Takeaways at the end of posts if you’re short on time.
This site is designed so you can dip in anywhere and still build a coherent mental model. You don’t have to read in order, but the Foundation posts make everything easier.
Why there are different topics and series
Medicine is not one problem with one solution. It’s a living system.
To keep things clear and practical, posts live in a few recurring series:
Foundation Series 🏛️
Core concepts like What is health, balance, resilience, and systems thinking versus symptom chasing.
Read these first if you want the “map” before the territory.
Four Layers Series 🧠
A practical framework we use in clinic and writing: Regulation, Flow, Transform, and Structure.
Helps you locate where an issue lives and what lever will actually move it.
Alice’s Journey 👤
A narrative case that follows a patient after cancer treatment, showing how good intentions can create ten new problems — and how to unwind them.
Teaches integration through story, not abstraction.
Integration Series 🤝
Bridges between Eastern and Western tools. Diagnostics, lab markers, pattern language, protocols, and decision‑making in the real world.
Each series serves a different kind of reader and a different moment in care: learning the model, applying it to a body system, making sense of a complex case, or connecting frameworks across traditions.
Who this is for
Patients and families navigating complex or chronic conditions who want clarity and agency
Practitioners seeking a shared language across paradigms
Curious readers who want principled, non‑dogmatic guidance rooted in both science and tradition
We avoid silver bullets and quick fixes. Instead we teach you how to think, choose, and iterate.
What you’ll find in a typical post
A clear statement of the problem in plain language
The big‑picture model view, then the zoom‑in details
Practical steps and decision trees you can use today
Key Takeaways and, when useful, a One‑page Summary
Citations or further reading for deeper dives
Suggested starting points
What is Health? A hero’s journey to wholeness
Why Medicine 3.0?
What Does It Mean to Be in Balance?
Meet Alice: When cancer treatment creates ten new problems
If you’re here for a specific concern, use the tags at the top of any post to jump straight to related topics.
How posts are organized
Posts, Authors, and Tags are managed behind the scenes so you can browse by topic or by series.
The URL slugs and meta descriptions aim to be readable and shareable.
When a post is updated, we add a brief changelog at the end so you can see what changed and why.
Our voice and values
Translation over tribalism
Systems thinking before protocols
Rhythm, relationships, and resilience over dashboard‑heavy control
Compassionate, clear, and practical writing
We write to make care safer, smarter, and more human.
How to engage
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Share posts with a friend or clinician who would benefit from a shared map.
Send questions you’d like us to tackle in future posts.
Modern care often treats symptoms in isolation—medicine as whack‑a‑mole. This post reframes health through systems thinking: open, adaptive networks where symptoms are signals from interconnected loops. We show how restoring circadian rhythm, reducing inflammatory load, supporting stress recovery, and improving cellular energy can shift the whole system. The goal is precision in service to pattern, so patients like Alice are seen and treated as living systems, not fragmented parts.
Medicine 3.0 reframes health as resilience in living systems, integrating modern science with classical insights to align rhythms, restore balance, strengthen relationships, and honor ecological context.
Alice’s story reveals an invisible wall dividing modern care: precision without pattern on one side, systems without specificity on the other. This piece proposes a semi‑permeable medicine that lets insight flow between paradigms—keeping precision in service to pattern, and pattern in service to the person.
