Posts Tagged chinese medicine
Posted on December 3, 2009 by Yael
Earlier this year, an article was published by Boivin and Schmidt in the journal Human Reproduction.
The article presented a research, which concluded that CAM therapies might cause a decrease in pregnancies in women who were using CAM therapies during their IVF treatments. The article stated a decrease of 30%.
I was made aware of this misleading article by a colleague from Israel, Aviv Messinger, who along with Daniel Seidman wrote a response to the article. whic the journal chose to publish.
Here is the full comment.
Posted on October 24, 2009 by Yael
Today we mark Acupuncture Day, where we the practitioners take some time to offer some good content to those interested in acupuncture and oriental medicine.
So how should we mark this day?
The web is full of explanations of how acupuncture works, yin and yang… You don’t really want me to start writing about that, right?
I thought that maybe we should take a more interesting appraoch and so things a bit different this time.
So I’m going to suggest a number of links that I think offer good information about how Chinese medicine can work well for patients (and practitioners too!):
Posted on June 29, 2009 by Yael
The concept of Community Acupuncture (CA) has been introduced to me by Roy Green Pach at the beginning of the year.
Roy wrote a wonderful article for my website in Hebrew, and the reaction to it was overwhelming. It’s amazing to me that little ol’ Israel can be a part of a great movement in real time and not in a delay of a number of years! And it’s true- we have a growing number of practitioners that practice CA, and more and more people are interested in the model, and the proof is that that particulare article was probably one of the most popular in my website.
Roy approached me and together we set up a blog for CA, all in Hebrew, and people are interested- asking questions, enjoying his thoughts- and yeah, it helps that he’s a great writer. Recently Roy interviewed Lisa Rohleder, the practitioner from Portland who started it all, for his blog. Lisa felt she needed a change, as you will soon read, and she made that change: She started out with 12 patients back in 2002, and experimented a lot with the model she created.
Years later, Lisa is now seeing about 400 patients a week, charging about $15-$40 per treatment, and along with her husband Skip, she has one of the biggest clinics in the USA. I thought that it would be wonderful if that interview would be posted on CMNotes as well, as I know that CA is gaining more and more popularity around the world. I also think it’s important to let practitioners know that they have an option. Things can be different for them. Things are changing in our world, including marketing strategies and our clinics and how we run them are no exception. So I’m really happy to be part of this spirit of change, and I hope that it will strike a chord with you too! Enjoy.
Posted on June 21, 2009 by Yael
I am very happy to post this review by Yael Saslove.
Yael is a known practitioner in Israel for various reasons- she’s one of the pioneers in our community who specialized in Chinese Medicine Gynecology, one of the first teachers of Chinese Medicine Gynecology in Israel, she also taught Chinese herbs and she’s a very busy practitioner.
She’s been this busy for years, and manages to juggle it all with family life, smiles, kindness and modesty.
I knew that if I will get her seal of approval of Jane Lyttelton’s courses I can be 150% sure that these courses offer real practical information for practitioners, and that it’s all good- really good.
I feel proud that one of my more important teachers of Chinese Medicine obliged to write on my humble blog, and that I can give you an expert’s opinion on an online course which is only a few mouse clicks away.
I hope this review helps you on your professional path.
Posted on June 9, 2009 by Yael
We’ve been thinking about it for a while, that it’s time to refresh our look.
Call us Madonna, that’s just fine by me, but it was time for a change. We’re still not done with all the changes we want to make, but you can now see what we have in mind.
We’re still working on more stuff, and they will be joining the new look slowly but surely. I want to point you to the direction of a number of new and renewed features:
1. Status bar: on the top right side of the website, you will find a new status bar (you can call it my own personal Twitter bar). This will give you an idea of what goes on in my life between posts.
Posted on May 11, 2009 by Yael
I’ve been thinking about how much this blog changed lately.
It started out with some idea in my head, and to be honest I don’t even remember exactly what it was. It changed a number of times, not so much because I didn’t have a clear vision, but because I quickly realised I need to focus.
These thoughts lead me to look at some posts and some of them really made me feel proud, each with it’s own reasons.
So today I will mention those posts and will write what it is about these posts that make me feel proud.
My Own Private Small Intestine: this was a year ago, and it was one of the first deep understandings I had about motherhood. Since then I had many more understandings about my motherly role in life, but this one stands out because it really was the first one. More than that, it was the first one that Chinese Medicine helped me understand it so.
Posted on March 2, 2009 by Yael
Almost all the books about Chinese Medicine are on important subjects.
Sometimes, it seems as though some subjects don’t have enough written work about them. When we find a book on one of the subjects, it seems as though we found a treasure, which immediately makes the book and the subject important.
Five Elements and the Shen are two examples to very important subjects.
There’s very little information about these subjects, and in some books, the price tag is enough to cause some kind of disturbance in one’s mind.
One of two courses I am taking this year is about the Five Elements and the Shen. We got a list of recommended books, and I will go over some of the books, hoping to share some new books with you, or at least remind you of the books you forgot about:
Posted on February 9, 2009 by Yael
You know how it is:
You study something you love, get all wrapped up about it and with it, and every now and then you meet people who inspire you in different ways.
Inspiration found it’s way to grace me in a various ways lately.
During my studies, which has been going on for almost 10 years now, I met people who made me think, create new things, learn more and ultimately made me richer.
I have one teacher who has been and still is a great source of inspiration.
But there are also others.
Posted on December 29, 2008 by Yael
I’m bouncing back into action after being sick for a week or so.
As it is the end of 2008, it is only right to look back and see what on earth I’ve been upto here on CMNotes!
Turns out, I have some good stuff:
Dr. Leon Hammer is one name that keeps coming up here, as it did since my second year or so of school.
I was lucky enough to have a number of chats with Dr. Hammer over e-mails, and one of the posts I am most proud of is the interview I got to do with him.
One of his students, Ross Rosen, was kind enough to write our very first guest post here on CMNotes, about Chinese Pulse Diagnosis.
Tags: 2008, chinese medicine, chinese medicine books, chinese medicine in 2008
Filed Under: General notes, Heiner notes, Interviews, Julian's book notes, Personal notes, Practitioners notes, Students notes, The Library
Posted on December 14, 2008 by Yael
Being a mother taught me the importance of taking care of myself.
If I won’t be well, my family won’t function very well, and so I must take better care of myself, and be sick maybe once a decade. At least.
With that frame of mind I’ve been very strict with my acupuncture sessions for the past number of months.
On our last meeting 2 interesting things happened:
1. I was needled in LI-4, LIV-3 and LIV-8. This combo is pretty standard, right? Well, you won’t believe what happened to me, but this will have to wait for a different post.
2. I got a Chinese herbs formula.
You all know by now that I am not a herbs fan.
Many people don’t understand this “weird phase” that I’m going through, but since it’s been going on for the past 8 years- at least- I know that it’s a simple case of being able to connect to one method more than the other.
I connect to acupuncture wonderfully, and to the herbs I don’t connect at all- not as a practitioner and not as a patient.
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