AAAOM student organization scholarship and reminder of forum discussion opportunity
Hey everyone,
Just two quick items of interest:
1. The AAAOM student organization has just announced a Chinese medicine scholarship opportunity. It appears that this scholarship is intending not just to help some lucky students, but also to continue to cultivate a culture of scholarship. They say,
“A designated exhibition area at the 2009 AAAOM Conference Student Caucus in Sacramento will host this year’s competition entries in the form of table-top and poster presentations. From the entries, three scholarships of $250 each will be awarded in two exhibition categories: Scholarly Projects and Chapter Projects.”
Awesome!
2. A very enthusiastic and skilled student at my school, National College of Natural Medicine, has put together a great natural medicine forum online. I’ve talked about it before, but I really want to encourage folks to sign up. It has a section for Chinese medicine students and practitioners to talk. I thought it might be a good place for some of the discussions we have here on Deepest Health to continue in an easy to follow format. Come join the discussion!
Enjoy your New Year celebration!
Eric
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Reading widely to learn Chinese medicine
It’s been almost four years, now, that I’ve been doing focused and formal study of Chinese medicine. Over that time, I’ve tried many study methods. Some of them were only useful during some specific part of my education, and still others were rejected because they didn’t work for me over the long haul. Others did remain because of their continued usefulness and effectiveness. In all, my efforts to constantly refine my mindset and study methods has resulted in established success and gradually increasing mastery of my field.
Lately, my bigger problem in studying acupuncture and Chinese herbs has been more subtle than a failed study method. As I discussed in a recent article, my difficulties of late have led me to an entirely reordered set of priorities and best practices. I promised I would discuss this more. The real core of my problem has been multi-factorial, and I hope to unpack those factors as I write over the coming weeks. Today, I’d like to reveal the single most important new practice that has helped rekindle my desire and ability to learn Chinese medicine at the deepest levels.
Unappreciated Advice
A couple of years ago, I took an experiential course at NCNM that Continue Reading…
Wellsphere Health Blogger Awards!
Hey everyone,
It’s time for another award competition! :) This one is on an interesting new health-focused website : Wellsphere. You may have noticed the badge I got for being a “top health blogger” in the sidebar on the right side of the screen. I think this site has a lot of promise - I really support efforts to combine social networking tools (like personal blogging, profiles, and subject focused message boards) with a focus on sharing health goals and information. I encourage you to sign up.
Do also feel free to vote for Deepest Health in the competition - it runs through January 15. You can do so by clicking on the graphic below or by visiting Deepesthealth.com and clicking on the graphic in the sidebar (scroll down until you find the badge talking about the awards).
Thanks everyone and if you’re on the West coast of the United States - enjoy this crazy weather! I’m snowed in!
Eric
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Are contemporary diet plans compatible with Chinese medical theory?
No.
But, let’s discuss this further. I’ll be brief. Consider, say, Medifast. It’s popular among teenage girls and, apparently, some Chinese medicine students. Perusing the website, it seems like a perfectly reasonable diet plan. Things seem balanced, on the whole. Great, great.
Let me ask you a question - is there something wrong with a basic whole foods diet consisting of whole grains, legumes and/or lean organic animal products, vegetables and fruits? Maybe some exercise? In the form of gentle Qigong, Taiji, walks outside, hiking, playing team sports and the like? Are contemporary people so different from ancient people that we can’t engage in the same activities that they did and manage to stay fit?
No. No, no, no, no, NO.
Medifast, like many of these programs, has you eating the bulk of your foods in the form of highly processed proprietary products. These foods are Qi-less and likely damaging to the Spleen Qi. All the clinical data in the world can’t convince me that these diets make sense, at least not from a Chinese medical point of view. Now, is there anything in the Neijing that says, “Don’t eat Medifast meal replacement bars?” Well, no.
The fact of the matter is that food Continue Reading…
Train your brain : try Lumosity
I get requests to review products from time to time, and frankly I deny most of them. However, sometimes something catches my eye and I try it out. I jettison about half of those, and the remaining products/services are few. The problem is that many of them are not explicitly Chinese medicine related, so I’m a little bashful about putting them on Deepest Health.
I’ve had this one on my plate for a while, though, and given that the holiday season is upon us - perhaps it will be of greater use to my readers than usual. Looking for something for the person who has everything? :) I’ll keep the review brief and to the point - please check out the Lumosity website for more information and to make a purchase. If you do decide to try them out (they do have a free trial, by the way) do come back and leave a comment on this post - I’ll be interested to hear how it goes for you.
Lumosity
Lumosity is a web-based brain training program that has been around for a while. I played it more than a year ago, as a free trial, and was impressed but not Continue Reading…
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