Posted in Acupuncture, Health, Medicine, Wellness on May 30th, 2008 No Comments »
Unless we have been involved in some accident, we don’t get to our current state of health overnight. It often a journey of years of slow accumulative action. Days slide into weeks, slide into months, then we wonder where the years went. Along with our agility, digestion, flexibility or mental clarity. It is a [...]
Posted in Everyday Acupuncture, Medicine on May 30th, 2008 No Comments »
If you have been to see a practitioner of Chinese medicine then you already know that most diagnoses sound more like weather reports than an explanation of a medical condition. Seemingly more poetic than prognostic it can lead to a sense that Chinese medicine is more art than science. Oddly Asian, we either accept it [...]
Posted in Culture on May 23rd, 2008 No Comments »
Remember what it felt like on September 12th?
The sense of shock and loss?
The way the mind refused to wrap itself around so many deaths?
The way numbers would numb the imagination?
The Chinese Sichuan earthquake is 17 American 9/11’s.
Seventeen.
Posted in Curiosity, Wellness on May 22nd, 2008 No Comments »
OK is not good enough.
I’m not talking here about the nitpicking endless knot of perfectionism. Nor, about a careless disregard for what does indeed require our attention and concern. The problem with OK is that it has no teeth. It is comfortable enough to allow years to slid into oblivion because it lacks [...]
Posted in Herbs on May 13th, 2008 No Comments »
Sometimes it is referred to as the “women’s ginseng.” A panacea for the health concerns that include monthly cycles and changes of life. In western vocabulary it is called Angelica. It has a sweet aromatic fragrance with an affinity for nourishing the blood and improving its circulation. While there is no such thing as a [...]