Posted in China, Culture, Everyday Acupuncture on Nov 9th, 2008 No Comments »
Unlike Taiwan’s damp wind that blows like a smothering grandmother’s kiss; Beijing’s wall of dry sand filled bluster is like the smack of a binge economy gone on the rocks. Startling in its invisible blinding strength; sheets of dust, sand, now falling leaves, and a confetti of litter all take to the sky and shimmer [...]
Posted in Everyday Acupuncture, Health, Medicine on Aug 8th, 2008 No Comments »
This you feel in your bones, or it comes as an irritation like a stone in the shoe, a constant non-ignorable ongoing frustration that wears you slowly down down down.
Cold is that which reduces the speed of life, it stagnates and freezes. It is like forgetting your spirit. It is constant like joint pain that [...]
Posted in Everyday Acupuncture, Medicine on Jun 6th, 2008 2 Comments »
We all have had this experience. It may come suddenly as we step between downtown buildings, or as we push up over a mountain ridge, or as a blast that heralds a storm. Formless yet powerful, it hits not with a strength, but as a force. That gust which suddenly changes the directional lean of [...]
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 [...]