Posted in Culture, Taiwan on Dec 27th, 2007 No Comments »
It has been a desire of mine to spend the Christmas holiday season in a non-Christian country. A place without that holy mix of commerce and religion. A place that didn’t blare for months on end the message that if you love someone, you will certainly open your wallets to the merchants. I was hoping [...]
Posted in Curiosity, Medicine on Dec 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
You hear this a lot with Chinese medicine:It has been around for thousands of years, they must know something. A thousand years is a long time.
Plenty of time to have lots of bad ideas, along with the good ones.
I always get concerned when I hear people deciding that Chinese medicine must be good simply because [...]
Posted in China, Curiosity, Travel on Dec 17th, 2007 No Comments »
Travel can easily be broken into two general categories. The time you are in places and the time you are between them. One is about settling, the other, movement. The Chinese would just say it’s Yin and Yang.
I see it more as Doing, and being Done To.
“Brakes bu ling” 刹車不靈
This is NOT what you [...]
Posted in Health, Language, Medicine on Dec 13th, 2007 No Comments »
In China, they are concerned with “getting cold”, “poor circulation”, “unregulated organs” and supplementing weakness. In the States, the concern is inflammation, allergies and stress.
In China people talk about having a stuffy feeling the chest and dizziness.
In the US we talk about anxiety, and depression.
We all have that about which we are concerned. [...]
Posted in Taiwan on Dec 11th, 2007 No Comments »
I love this about Taiwan.
When they decide to have an election, or do politics. The gloves come off, and they kick some ass.
They take their democracy seriously over there. They often have voter turn outs of over 80% for a presidential election, and they need to return to their hometown to vote too!
And if the [...]
Posted in Acupuncture, Health, Medicine, Wellness on Dec 5th, 2007 No Comments »
1- Acupuncture is not just for treating pain.
2- You don’t have to “believe” in it for it to work.
Heck, the practitioner does not even need to believe in it for it to work.
3- Anxiety or depression are not simply psychological problems.
4- There are no [...]