From the monthly archives:

December 2008

AAAOM student organization scholarship and reminder of forum discussion opportunity

28 December 2008 Blogging

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 [...]

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Reading widely to learn Chinese medicine

26 December 2008 Learning

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 [...]

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Wellsphere Health Blogger Awards!

22 December 2008 Theory

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 [...]

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Are contemporary diet plans compatible with Chinese medical theory?

20 December 2008 Food and drink

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 [...]

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Train your brain : try Lumosity

19 December 2008 Learning

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 [...]

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