At the end of March, it was reported a woman in her late 20’s lost her life from liver failure, a side effect of the Chinese drug called Jin Bu Huan.
This of course immediately sent me to Google the drug, which in the media was called Chinese herb. I talked with various herbalists here in [...]

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 [...]

Hi everyone,
We are happy to host the Carnival of Healing #133 here on CMNotes.
The carnival will take place on April 12th (note it), and we expect to have interesting links for you all, all about natural healing.
Those of you who would like to be a part of our post of the carnival, you are welcome [...]

The success of the first post we made on Chinese Medicine links encouraged us to write another post on more links we find worth mentioning for various reasons.
Please note that the numbers are just to make it easier to count to 10. This isn’t a rating of any sort.
1. The Journal of Chinese Medicine- this is one of [...]

Well, it was just a matter of time until I wrote something about Facebook.
What a webiste, eh? Seems like the whole world is on it!
I decided to see if there’s anything good for the CM community. There are many people who practice or study CM that are on FB, but what I’m going to write about [...]

Defending Chinese Medicine- part 1 was posted at the end of December 2007.
Yeah, took me a while to get part 2 going, I know, but better late than never, you know?
The best way to go is to read part 1 and then go on to part 2, this way you will know what on earth I’m [...]

Don’t you just love it when you talk to people about Chinese Medicine and then they say something like “oh, that’s all good, but when it comes down to it, I want to be treated by something that really works. No offence but CM was never proved”?
Don’t you fall in-love with those articles on the Internet that [...]

~Dedicated to my beautiful friend who asks wise questions~
I’ve been asked to write about the difference between TCM acupuncture and 5 Elements theory.
Oy! So much to be said, how can I leave something out? And will it be clear? Am I really the person for the task??
OK, deep breath…. right. Now.
This is what I came up with, and [...]

February 7th marks the beginning of the year of the Rat.
The celebrations in China are quite inspiring, so I’m told, with lots of fire works, colors, and since we have a rat in our hands- Mickey Mouse is everywhere.
Maybe someone should tell them Mickey is a Mouse (hence the name) and not a rat?
Then again, [...]

The world wide web is packed with so many websites and blogs, that sometimes you just don’t know how to reach them all, which is good and which is, well, not so good.
We will list here the 10 links of Chinese Medicine we think you must bookmark and visit, as they offer good content and [...]