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Please enjoy this guest post by my friend and classmate, Christopher Thombs, Candidate, M.S. in Oriental Medicine at NCNM. Reprinted (in abbreviated form)in Oregon Acupuncture Association newsletter, Fall2007 Classical Chinese medicine celebrates bian hua, or the breath of nature. Only through unrestricted movement of breath will the body and spirit function optimally. Bian hua is [...]
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Continue reading...About two hours ago along one of the busiest streets in Portland, I held a man (feeling his pulses all the while) as he died from a heart attack. To be fair, I couldn’t stay until the bitter end and the man could have pulled through but I strongly, strongly doubt this. I was taking [...]
Continue reading...I sometimes suffer from a lack of sleep. In Chinese medicine, there are a lot of potential causes for insomnia. But all of them share one simple feature – they self perpetuate. Which is to say that insomnia begets insomnia. Simplistically speaking, the phrase “burning the midnight oil” has some truth to it – when [...]
Continue reading...One of Deepest Health’s readers, Katrina, mentioned that she wonders about the benefits of meditation for students. There are a hundred and one articles out there showing simple meditation procedures, equally as many discussing the health benefits of this practice. So, I thought I’d take a slightly different angle and discuss the specific benefits I [...]
Continue reading...When I get into a conversation with someone about “what I do,” I inevitably am asked how I got into Chinese medicine. When I tell them I am a blogger as well, I get more questions. So here it is, my life story – particularly as it pertains to how I got to where I [...]
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