Thank you for your wonderful comment.

Oh, I know of many wonderful teachers!!
Do you want the whole list?

I agree with B.K, Clavey’s book is a very important book that doesn’t get enough attention, at least here in Israel. I think I had only one teacher who mentioned it.

Keep up the good work and take care,
Yael

If you know of other great teachers please let me know. It is great when you can find someone who can transmit their knowledge to you the way Kirschbaum can. She gave some good advice after looking at my tongue and talking with me when I saw her in 2006. One was to lose some weight and exercise (I will be seeing her again in San Diego and I am sure she will notice i am actually a few pounds more) and if you really want to deeply master TCM foundations and excel in clinic then do the following:

1. Take pictures of all your patients tongues AND every three months review the past files and learn from your clinical experience as to what is working and what is not

2. Read Steven Clavey’s Fluid and Physiology text cover to cover. She said if you read this book (do not worry about the title of the book) you will understand TCM at a key level

3. Read her two Tongue atlas books

Not only am I a few pounds heavier but I still have not read the books she suggested… I do own them. wait! I did do one thing she suggested. She though t here needs to be more post graduate TCM education…. good courses. I did continue to develop this with Pro D Seminars (www.prodseminars.com)

Regarding the books- I think the Atlas of the tongue diagnosis are the only books by B.K. That’s what I know.

We spend a fair amount of time on tongues in both my schools, but I doubt it will ever get to the level Kirschbaum enjoys. Does she have any other books besides the 2-volume set?

Not to derail the topic here, but honestly — ears, tongues… one would really have to rethink their position on palm reading as well. If any part of the body is a representation or manifestation of the body as a whole, you could probably get fairly expert at reading anything if you just knew where to draw the connections.

Most schools I know don’t really say too much about tongue diagnosis. Most of them talk about the pulse and stick to that, giving it more emphesis. A lot more emphesis.

Barbara Kirschbaum showed us with amazing photos how she could diagnose even cancer (!) just from looking at the tongue.

A friend of mine was amazed by her ability to diagnose- she looked at his wife’s tongue for a bit and told her intimate things about her relationship with her mother (!!) and about other aspects of her life. My friend and his wife were amazed by how right on the point she was.

I know that I myself never gave tongue diagnosis too much attention. It seemed silly to me.
I was very very wrong.