"...it wasn’t until after I encountered my own persoanl health crisis that I realized the importance of integrating my philosophical and cosmological studies of Chinese medicine into the clinical application. I began to seek the classical roots of Chinese medicine outside the institutionalized Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) settings: Daoist medicine and Jinjing Qigong with Wang Qingyu; Shanghan lun pulse diagnosis with Zeng Rongsiu, Sichuan Daoism with Wng Chunwu; and traditional Sichuan folk art and music with Wang Huade. What I hope to share together are the classical traditions of Chinese medicine long lost and rediscovered throughout my extensive journey to the heart of Oriental medicine."

Dr. Heiner Fruehauf studied sinology, philosophy, and comparative literature at Tübingen University, Fudan University (Shanghai), Hamburg University, Waseda University (Tokyo), and the University of Chicago, where he earned a doctoral degree from the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations in 1990.While completing two years of post-doctoral training at Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, he was mentored by Deng Zhongjia, one of China’s primary experts in the fields of formula studies and the classical foundations of Chinese medicine.

Since 1992, he has published widely on both the theoretical and clinical aspects of Chinese medicine. Presently, he serves as Founding Professor of the School of Classical Chinese Medicine at National College of Natural Medicine in Portland, Oregon, where, until recently he served as dean, and has been teaching since 1992.

His scholarly endeavors include the direction of an ongoing research project on the archaic symbolism of Chinese medicine terminology, including an in-depth analysis of the acupuncture point names.