Archive for July, 2009
Posted on July 27, 2009 by Yael
The first me I heard Richard Goodman’s name was through a comment on a previous post about books here on CMNotes.
AncinetDoc mentioned Richard’s book, and I started sniffing around.
Pretty soon I started following Richard on a regular basis through his blog and through Twitter, mainly because he talks about interesting things, and also because he’s really a nice guy.
Richard, 34, started law school and switched to his true calling, studying Chinese medicine.
His journey is an interesting one, one that took him from the USA to Taiwan and got him writing books to help people read and understand the classical Chinese texts, such as Classical Chinese Medical Texts Vol. I
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Vol. II is in the making as I write this post.
Posted on July 19, 2009 by Yael
I’m happy to have one of Roy Green Pach’s posts on CMNotes.
Ah, I wish you could read Hebrew. If you did, you could read Roy’s great posts about Community Acupuncture on his Hebrew blog, and see how he shares what goes on in his head in such a beautiful way.
Today Roy is talking about Lisa Rohleder’s book “Acupuncture is like Noodles”. We already heard from Lisa herself, when Roy interviewed her, and now we can read and hear more from the woman who made a difference in the Chinese medicine world in the west.
Enjoy!
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Posted on July 13, 2009 by Yael
Lately I heard a lot of success stories about using BL67 for malposition of the foetus.
You know what I mean, a woman comes around the 34th week of her pregnancy, the baby is breech and won’t move.
These women have a very un-pleasent (to say the least) option via Western medicine, and are facing a more friendly approach that Chinese medicine provides. Bothmethods claim to work well, but with both methods there is a strong possibility that the baby will go back to breech.
And I wonder- should we always try and “fix” the baby’s position? What about the times we shouldn’t do anything? How can we tell?
The background story for my thoughts
Two and a half years ago my boy Shahar was born by C-section.
During the pregnancy everything was fine and he was always with head down, but during the 9th month, he started turning around quite often, until he decided to stay breech. I was offered the two methods to turn the baby, I thought only of BL67 with moxa, but didn’t get to it and finally had the C-section.
Posted on July 11, 2009 by Yael
During the past week I read a number of interesting links about Chinese medicine.
Mind you, I feel that I have a lot to say about most of them, and maybe I will dedicate a post to each in the future, but as for now, I wanted to share these links with you.
Miriam Lee passed away at the end of June 2009.
She was the author of the book Insights of a Senior Acupuncturist and was a pioneer of Chinese medicine in California.
To read more about her, go to Amy Chitwood’s blog by clicking here.
Posted on July 5, 2009 by Yael
Promoting Chinese Medicine is very important.
We need more and more people who will explain why this amazing medicine, and we need people to show from their own experience how it simply works.
We’ve been doing this promotion in various ways- building our own websites, writing about Chinese Medicine- what it does, what it’s good for, how different it is from other methods of treatment… and it’s all good and all should go on.
Today I want to show you another way of promoting Chinese Medicine.
Lately I’ve been seeing more and more items on the Internet that we can buy and people can be exposed to the fun part of Chinese Medicine through t-shirts, mugs, mouse pads, baby cloths… and also, we get to have fun!
So let’s go shopping!
Posted on July 2, 2009 by Yael
A quick note to let you know about the free on-line course with Richard Goodman.
Richard is the author of the book Classical Chinese Medical Texts- Vol. I (volume II is in the making!).
On July 15th 2009, he will begin an on-line course which actually accompanies the book, 15 lessons- one for each chapter. More info, as I copied it from WindPress:
“Beginning July 15th, Richard Goodman will teach a FREE 15 week course for Classical Chinese Medical Texts Vol I. We are doing this because we want people to use the book! The course will be hosted on this website and the material for each week will have it’s own web page so that all of the material is available in one place. Additionally, you will be able to make comments and ask questions directly related to each week’s material. If you are a late arrival or fall behind, the material will remain so that you can follow along at your own pace. There is no need to sign up or register”.
