Posted in Acupuncture, China, Travel on Oct 6th, 2006 3 Comments »
江香上來
葉轉下去
大覺到處
秋門進入
There is a curve along the shoreline, just beyond the wharf where morning tourists pilgrimage for photographs, and not quite to the stone slab the river boats slumber the night. There is a small marble table, with stone stools, where you can scoop below the river’s water and gather the mountains on either side. It’s [...]
Posted in Acupuncture, China, Medicine, Travel on Sep 28th, 2006 1 Comment »
It takes an hour and half of cycling through the rattle and screech of Beijing morning traffic to go from south of the Temple of Heaven to north Bee’s Nest road, where Doc Wang has his private clinic. It’s just a bit longer than cycling up to the subway and then compressing into the morning [...]
Posted in Acupuncture, Health, Medicine, Wellness on Sep 4th, 2006 4 Comments »
Yong Kang Clinic is not just a place where people come to find relief from allergies and headaches, or to find natural methods of coping with chronic illness, or to freely drop in when their back goes suddenly out.
It’s also a place where practitioners gather to drink tea, puzzle over the meaning of the medical [...]
Posted in Acupuncture, Health, Wellness on Aug 31st, 2006 No Comments »
You know when it happens.
You sense the Fall change of light, and the way that the air contains a chill along with a slightly metallic smell. You notice it in the Spring when a certain kind of green invades your vision. The seasonal pivots, the moments when we know deeply in our being that we [...]
Posted in Acupuncture, China, Curiosity, Travel on Aug 26th, 2006 No Comments »
I’d been dreaming it, hoping it, wishing it. That this fall I’d go back and drop myself into the swirl of life in China. Go this time, not as a pilgrim, but as a doctor with his feet firmly planted here in the USA. Tethered like a kite aloft, able to glide on the winds, [...]
Posted in Acupuncture, Curiosity on Aug 15th, 2006 2 Comments »
Hey, if it is pain you want, we can refer you to some other therapies.
Acupuncture, while it does have sensation, few would call it pain.
My good friend in Taiwan, Jean Paul, an accomplished acupuncturist, has this to say about acupuncture and pain.
Acupuncture hurts less than:
• biting your tongue
• a mosquito bite
• a hypodermic needle [...]
Posted in Acupuncture, Back pain, Health on Aug 9th, 2006 1 Comment »
Think about where your power is.
Most people would say the hands, or our unique ability to walk upright thanks to those muscles in our calf that allow us humans the anti-gravity trick of balance on two feet.
Some would say it is the opposable thumb that allows to us grip, or the almost developed as a [...]
Posted in Acupuncture on Aug 3rd, 2006 No Comments »
There are moments were the world is suddenly and completely different.
The first moment you noticed her hair falls like a kiss around her shoulders.
The space between breaths, when as a child, you first found balance on a bicycle.
The illumination and heart expanding feeling of getting a vision that launched your desire to quit a job, [...]
Posted in Acupuncture, Curiosity, Medicine on Aug 2nd, 2006 No Comments »
In the early 80’s, I said “I’d never use a computer”.
By the late 80’s it was how I made my living.
In the 90’s I said “I’d never work for a big company”, but it was the paycheck from a big company that put me through acupuncture school in the mid-90’s.
I never thought I would learn [...]