From the monthly archives:

June 2007

7 features of your Great Chinese Medicine physician

29 June 2007 The profession

<—— Hua Tuo. Now he was a GREAT physician.
– Now that I’ve discussed how to find a legitimate (read: non-lethal) Chinese medicine physician – I’d like to get to my passion, what sets apart the merely legitimate physicians from the ones who are truly great or, if they are new to the profession, on [...]

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Should Chinese medicine be modernized?

29 June 2007 CM News

You probably already know my answer to this question. Reading through my Chinese Medicine news feed, I came across this article – China to further modernize Traditional Chinese Medicine. Here’s their description of what modernizing means for the medicine.

“In modernizing TCM, efforts will be made to improve standards, study new applications and [...]

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Why it is vital to study the Classical Texts of Chinese medicine

28 June 2007 Learning

Classical Chinese medicine does not share a scientific basis with Western medicine – it has its own foundations, its own systems and its own conclusions. The obsession with “proving” Chinese medicine concepts with Western methods is misguided at best. As a profession, Chinese medicine is deeply different. The classical texts urge Chinese medicine physicians to be devoted to their own cultivation, to the rigorous study of the medical classics and to the full understanding of nature. In a way, then, “keeping up with our profession” means a very different set of things. We must still constantly seek to improve our diagnostic skills, must constantly seek to deepen our understanding of the principles of our medicine – but instead of using the future as our standard, we must use the past and – most importantly – the present. The present state of our own personal growth and the present state of the improvement of our patients and our ability to care for them.

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10 Things you should expect from your first acupuncture appointment

27 June 2007 New to Chinese Medicine?

Every CM doctor is different just as every patient is different. The interaction between doctor and patient has a lot to do with the way the appointment proceeds and whether it turns out to be a mutually agreeable experience or not. However, there are some basic elements that will be present in every [...]

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Should acupuncture hurt?

26 June 2007 Acupuncture

Should acupuncture hurt? When you ask people whether acupuncture hurts, most of them will say some variation of, “No.” I’m going to add the opposite opinion, with a few caveats.
Pain is relative. It’s relative within your own experience – that time you got beaned with a softball hurt way more than burning [...]

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