A day after the final transport of our office contents from 2616 Mesilla Street to 2202 Menaul Boulevard was complete, I was given a momentary respite, long enough to flash on the many levels of meaning in the word ‘moving’. Prior to that grace, I barely had time to breathe. Now, nearly two months later, …
Oriental medicine’s view of health, disease, medicine, and even death is quite different from that of Western medicine. Cancer is a great example of the stark contrast. The Gospel of Cancer In conventional medicine, cancer is considered a diagnosis. Realistically, it’s more like a sentence, but they call it a diagnosis. Conventional medicine is …
Who Needs It? If you had a life-threatening illness, what would you do? Would you line up for your turn in front of the machines of conventional medicine and hope for the best? If you had an undiagnosed condition which was destroying your life, would you sit half the day in the waiting room of …
Excerpt from an email going out to a prospective client… A common experience in our culture is for people to suffer poor health because they put everything else ahead of their health. Work, family, and pleasures of the physical senses routinely take precedence over all else. One of the reasons for the Case Review is …
One of the most common refrains I hear when I’m trying to put conventional medicine in a realistic perspective is an enthusiastic, “Well, life expectancy is up, isn’t it?!” Even if this sadly worn illusion were true, it says nothing about the quality of life citizens experience in this country. That, too, is nothing to …
Tom has been a client since 1994. He works hard and works smart. In that time he has become very successful. In order to remain successful, Tom has had to learn how to balance the intensity of his work with choices that support his mental clarity, his focus, and his physical health. He has had to learn which choices achieve those goals and which choices fail. Recently, Tom was given a glimpse of the value of this process…
In first year Oriental medicine school, I remember the Chinese teacher explaining the ‘flavors’ or ‘tastes’ associated with the organs. Each of the yin organs (heart, lung, kidney, liver and spleen) benefits from a specific taste of food or herbs. The corresponding tastes are bitter, pungent, salty, sour, and sweet. I remember quite vividly the class response when she told us that the spleen benefitted from sweet. Deep, approving murmers of satisfaction moved palpably through the group, accompanied by a slightly self-righteous and smug embrace of desire’s affirmation.
In response to a post I made on facebook regarding fellow blogger, farmer, and food rights activist, Michael Schmidt, in his article, “A tale of two calves…” , my friend Colleen responded with the following question: Hi Larry — interesting study…. So a question for you then…. are you a fan of humans drinking raw milk or should we rather avoid cow’s milk altogether? I’d be curious as to your opinion.
The reason I chose this photograph and layout for Future Medicine Now — The Contemplation is that it is an iconic portrayal of what liver qi (chee) should be. Liver, like all the other systems in the body, has its own qi, which has a personality, functions, emotional tendencies, and energetic directions of travel.