Herbs and acupuncture – eight engaging articles on Deepest Health

Hey folks,

I’m still trying to settle on the right publishing schedule. I’m going to let weekends be pretty loose, publishing sometimes but not others. I’m also going to move the topics around a bit to be more conducive to writing great articles for you folks. When I settle on the right schedule, I’ll create icons for each – then you’ll know I’m serious. :) For now, I’m going to move the heaviest topic (Herbs and Acupuncture) deeper into the week. We’ll see how I can shift things around.

For now – please enjoy this handpicked list of my Top 8 favorite articles on Deepest Health having to do primarily with herbs and acupuncture.

1. One of my earliest articles, about an herb I don’t even use – Mu Zei, horsetail. It’s sort of embarrassing to read this article, but there’s some good information in there for beginners, and I was very new to the whole thing. Haha.
2. One of my more popular study articles about using all the senses to study herbs.
3. Something similar to #2, only concerning using the whole self to learn acupuncture.
4. An article I don’t even remember writing about the doctrine of signatures in Chinese herbalism. This one may have suffered from bad timing, as it didn’t get many hits. I find that sometimes I write a pretty useful/interesting article that doesn’t get much play and it mostly just has to do with timing. Late August isn’t a great blog readership time…
5. A fairly detailed, if still a bit simple article about Mahuang – one of my very favorite herbs.
6. A Zhang Zhongjing fanboy article about why Shanghan style Chinese herbalism is the most advanced medicine anywhere.
7. A guest post about the dangers of reaching for your Yin Qiao San too quickly. Shoutout to Mike!
8. Another painfully old article about why acupuncture, maybe, should hurt. What’s sort of funny about this is that I’m known as a pretty gentle needler. But, I think the essence of the article stands.

Enjoy these – you may have missed them the first time!

Eric

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