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Carnival of Healing #133 on Chinese Medicine Notes

Posted on April 12, 2008 by Yael

Welcome to Carnival of Healing #133!
I am very happy to host this issue, thank you very much Phylameana for the vote of confidence, and I feel that it is only fit to have a Carnival of Healing on CMNotes in the spring time.
Carnival of Healing #132 was hosted by Astrid Lee at We Are One World Healing, make sure you stop there and read the posts Astrid collected. Also note, that Carnival of Healing #134 will be hosted by Clara Myers at Mind-Mart , that’s on next week. Also, make sure you check the archive of Carnival of Healing, which will help you understand what’s going on here if this is all new to you.

Let the carnival begin!

As you probably understood from the blog’s name, Chinese Medicine is what we discuss here.
I realise that the carnival is not about CM as it is about natural healing methods, I will focus on CM for a number of reasons: a) I love CM. b) I think I found very interesting posts for all of you, that will help you get more information about this beautiful art of CM, and also, some of these posts show things we all know, but from the eyes of CM.
But mainly- most of these posts affect me on a personal level or a professional level, and  I would like to share with you posts that I find to be helpful and wise.

Herbis Orbis is a blog by my beautiful friend Anne de Courtenay, who is studying herbs for a number of years now and has a bright future, I think. The post Chinese Five Element Theory According to South Park, is all about Cartman and the Wood Element. Interesting way to look at it, eh? Note it.

I am happy to discover Five Minds, by Julie Meyer. Julie writes very poetically about acupuncture, cooking and collaboration, and on the post Acupuncture, Seasonal Renewal and Aging, she reflect beautifully about aspects that we benefit from our patients as practitioners and healers. Note it.

When I was pregnant, around the 36th week, my baby started to do flip-flops almost every other day. Finally he decided to stay breech, and we thought of doing moxa on BL67. We didn’t do it in the end, and I had a c-section and out came a beautiful perfect boy, but I know of other women who go through terrible experiences without knowing that moxa is in fact very useful and easy to use. Of course, one should always go to a practitioner before deciding to do moxa, but here is a post and a video titled Moxibustion For Breech Pregnancy from Acupuncture Services of Central NY by Joyce Marley, and I think this is important information practitioners and healers should share with women who are pregnant. Note it.

Eric Grey writes the excellent blog Deepest Health, probably my most favorite blog about CM.
It is very difficult to choose just one post, as there are many important interesting posts I would like to share with you. But I think a good way to go is with one of his recent posts, Taking It All In: Buddhist Practice and Chinese Medicine School. Sometimes I forget that Eric is still a student of CM… Note it.

I started my CM studies after studying a year of Shiatsu. And although shiatsu is not 100% CM, we gladly make it a part of CM because it is based on Chinese philosophy and medicine.
I found one blog about shiatsu, Shiatsu Blogger by Tony Brown, who is actually making a come back with his blog, and part of it is the post Being Ill Makes For Better Shiatsu. Note it.

Helfgott Blog: Exploring Health and Medicine is packed with information about natural medicine of all sorts. What Happens When Words Hit The Page?is a good example of the interesting ideas the people of The Helfgott Research Institute come up with. Note it.

Even Unto China is written by Abdallah Stickley, and he wrote a very short post about Iraq, PTSD, Acupuncture and Preventive Medicine. There’s really nothing I can add as Abdallah is so accurate with his words. All I can say is- note it.

Insights For Acupuncturists is an important stop for practitioners and healers, as Lisa Hanfileti kindly shares with us ideas and business tips on how to build our clinic and actually work in our profession. Not to mention actually make a decent income. Marketing Methods for Acupuncturists is just one example. Note it.

Alternative Health Practice has interesting tips to give us all as we build our practice and face different questions. How to Design The Ultimate Patient Booking Strategy can give us all good and important ideas to use in our clinics. Note it.

David Bohl writes in Slow Down Fast and is a life coach. On How to Live With Gusto David gives us 5 tips on how to change our recent habits, tips that  can be applied on ourselves as students, as healers and as people.

That’s it for this week’s issue of Carnival of Healing.
I hope you enjoyed this issue and found some useful information.
I know I did.