I’m giving what seems to be my annual talk at the Chinese New Year Celebration in Jacksonville on February 8th. Its always really fun and educational – classic Norman Rockwell-like small town celebration with the parade down the middle of the street, followed by talks and demos in different venues – something for everyone. Great…
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ARTICLE TODAY: Brain waste removed during sleep – 10/17/13 Science is showing now that some kind of ‘brain waste removal’ happens during sleep – involving the liver somehow… It seems in almost every traditional culture in some way related with this organ we call the “liver” – there have been some striking correlations. Universally…
The character for ‘qi’ in Chinese has many meanings – the usual translation being, generally, ‘energy’. One way to begin to explore its meaning from a TCM, medical point of view, is to look at the pictograph itself: The character depicts 气 (“steam”) over 米 (“rice”): qi is analogous to steam produced from the cooking…
