From the monthly archives:

October 2008

Necessity is the mother of learning acupuncture points

31 October 2008 Acupuncture

One of the things I have noticed in my scant 20 or so weeks of hands-on clinical practice is the great difficulty of accurately locating acupuncture points.  At times the body seems an intolerably huge landscape – full of unfamiliar landmarks and confounding convolutions.  Yes, at other times the complications diminish and it seems as [...]

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Herbal quality : the Fuzi (aconite) dilemma

28 October 2008 Herbal Medicine

As you all know, herbs are my passion. More accurately, formulas are my passion.  Formula science is my passion!  :)  But, I do have a strong affinity for the herbs as plants and study them as such.  Further, I have a real desire to get as close as possible to the original way of prescribing [...]

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Consolidation and the descent into winter

21 October 2008 Theory

It’s been a very chaotic month.  The continuation of my fourth year of schooling in Classical Chinese Medicine has been profoundly destabilizing in a number of ways.  I haven’t been able to get my feet under me.  This feeling has been further accentuated by the political and social climate, as well as particular personal situations [...]

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Why Chinese Medicine is a great healthcare choice during an economic downturn

6 October 2008 Marketing

I’ve just begun a discussion about Chinese medicine and the economy over at my other blog, Deepest Health. It’s an issue on many of our minds lately, so worthy of a robust conversation.  Here on Natural Medicine Business Success, I want to look at a slightly different angle.  It seems that many people still see [...]

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Chinese medicine and the troubled economy

5 October 2008 Student Life

It’s a natural thing for all of us to be thinking about the economy right now. While I think that people often pay too much attention to the news, allowing their Shen to get seriously disturbed, there’s really no question that we’re in a bit of an economic downturn.  I have seen that our school [...]

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