Posted on May 12, 2008 by Yael
Before the ICCM started, as I knew Julian Scott will be one of the guest speakers, I decided to Google Julian and see what I come up with.
The results were interesting:
Julian Scott- a composer of music for films and such, and even scores music for the Olympic games in Beijing! But the more I look at the website I realize- this is not the Julian Scott I’m looking for.
Posted on May 7, 2008 by Yael
During the second Israeli Congress of Chinese Medicine (ICCM), we had a lecture and seminar with Barbara Kirschbaum.
If there will ever be a need to describe the term “cool chick”, Barbara Kirschbaum would easily be the first candidate that comes to my mind.
As fate wanted it, I suddenly found myself on a lunch date with Barbara.
I already had my lunch and Barbara had a bit of salad, black coffee and a cigarette.
Very quickly I asked her the question that she probably heard a thousand times: how did you come to be an expert on tongue diagnosis? You wake up one morning and decide that this is the way to go?
Of course the answer to that second part is no, and she told me the short version of the story- becoming an expert on tongue diagnosis came from her practice, she checks the pulse too but relays on the veins under the tongue, she has ten of thousands pictures of tongues from her clinic, she thinks the tongue diagnosis is much more accurate than the pulse diagnosis, the way that tongue diagnosis is being taught around the world is wrong, the very little attention the tongue diagnosis receives throughout the world is very wrong, and she stumbled upon Chinese Medicine almost by accident- she was a television engineer, and on one journey near Tibet, a monk told her she should quite simply that she was meant to work in Chinese Medicine.
