In this Shoptalk conversation, we dive into Toby’s patient-centered approach to helping people understand and use East Asian medicine. In his new book, he guides the everyday reader without turning it into a full-blown Chinese Medicine 101.
Toby achieves this by providing context, using language patients actually get, and exploring Chinese medicine through clinical experience, history, and even scientific research.
One of the standout features? The way he explains Yin and Yang in plain, relatable terms—you might not even realize he’s talking about them at all.
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Toby began studying Chinese medicine in 1997 with Sunim Doam, a Korean monk trained in the Saam tradition. He earned his master’s degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine in 2002 upon completion of training at the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine in San Francisco and Chengdu University in China.
During his four years of training in San Francisco, he interned with the prominent acupuncturist Dr. Angela Wu and learned to apply the lofty theories he was studying in school into the pragmatic setting of a busy clinic. Afterward he completed a PhD in Classical Chinese Medicine under the guidance of 88th generation Daoist priest Jeffery Yuen.
Toby developed the Chinese Nutritional Strategies app to provide digital access to the wealth of Chinese dietary wisdom and the Chinese Medical Characters app to enable direct access to foundational Chinese medical terms and concepts. In 2023 he published his first book, An Introduction to Chinese Medicine a Patient’s Guide to Traditional East Asian medicine.
For the past four years he’s been teaching the Saam method as it was taught to him by his teacher.
Toby has a number of courses available on the Net of Knowledge.
You can also visit him at the Saam Benevolent Society.
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