Tag: chinese medicine

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The will to change

In the previous post I mention how acupuncture and herbs spark the process of change by bringing awareness of the root of one’s struggles. This awareness is a linking of […]

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How does one change?

None of us is spared pain in our lives, whether it be the pain of being born, the pain of losing a loved one, the pain that comes from illness, […]

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Organ Deprivation

Making assumptions and jumping to conclusions in medicine can be a dangerous thing. Without a proper diagnosis, how can one choose an appropriate treatment? But all too often, medical dogma […]

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Living in Accord with Nature

One of the paramount lessons that Chinese medicine teaches is the importance of living in harmony with the cycles of nature. When one resists our ignores these cycles, imbalance sets […]

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Paradigm (cont’d)

Back to the idea of what makes a system of medicine effective. Looking at one’s paradigm for perceiving imbalance, does one look to the past, present or future? Blood tests, […]

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Paradigm

A medicine cannot be truly effective without a successful paradigm. By that I mean, how can a system of medicine diagnose, treat, and heal an illness that it cannot even […]