Posted in China, Culture, Medicine on Nov 16th, 2008 No Comments »
In the summer of 2005 I left Asia and returned to the USA to practice the medicine of China in Seattle. This blog has been a chronicle of that chapter, and like all chapters there is an end. This is it.
Yong Kang Clinic has changed hands and become Ageless Acupuncture. My address again is Beijing. [...]
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 Medicine, Taiwan on Jul 18th, 2008 2 Comments »
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I don’t know where I found this quote. But, it makes sense. People often ask me what to look for in acupuncturist; I think they should seek a practitioner like the one described below:
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I don’t think a doctor needs to be particularly clever.
He needs to be moderately intelligent, but he doesn’t need to be anything [...]
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 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 Language, Medicine, Taiwan, Travel on Mar 12th, 2008 1 Comment »
It is not that time changes things. But, that things change as they flow through time.
Seven years ago about this time of year I boarded an airplane with the destination of Taiwan. Armed only with determination and desire to learn enough language to engage the medicine in Asia. Tonight in the deep beyond midnight I [...]
Posted in Health, Herbs, Medicine on Mar 2nd, 2008 No Comments »
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It is a common question,
These herbs, will I need to take them forever?
It is a usually a question asked by someone that is already taking pharmaceutical drugs. Taking drugs for a problem, and then other drugs to allievate the side-effects of the cure, and sometimes even others to deal with the side effects of the [...]
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 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. [...]