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Apr 28, 2023
Hearts, Transplants & Chinese Medicine!
I recently read that the personality of heart transplant patients can change in ways that reflect the personality of their organ donor....
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Mar 23, 2023
Can We Sleep Better?
The loss of one night’s sleep is followed by ten days of inconvenience Chinese Proverb I recently had a very bad nights sleep and the...
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Feb 23, 2023
Why Good Health Begins in our Heads!
“Its not the years in your life that count. Its the life in your years” Dr Edward Stieglitz The Yangsheng or Nourishing Life tradition...
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Dec 1, 2022
Are You Taking Care of Your Health?
“If I knew I was going to live this long, I’d have taken better of myself.” Mickey Mantle, baseball player (1931-1995) I recently had a...
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Mar 29, 2022
Community Acupuncture: A way forward for Resurgis?
A quick post on what a community acupuncture clinic is and why I want to set one up for Midsomer Norton & Radstock
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Mar 18, 2022
My Book at Bedtime & Why 'Resurgis'
Last night I started re-reading Soil and Soul by Alistair McIntosh and in the first few pages I came across this passage: 'The very...
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Mar 10, 2022
Our New Car is a ..... Bike
For many years I was an antiquarian book-dealer, which involved driving all over the country buying books that I subsequently shipped all...
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Feb 11, 2022
Medicine and the Machine
I was recently listening to a talk by the Buddhist teacher James Low, which included an anecdote from his schooldays. Low was born in...
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Oct 26, 2021
Acupuncture and the Treatment of Migraine
A brief look at migraines and why acupuncture might provide effective treatment with lasting effects,
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Sep 6, 2021
Insomnia and Chinese Medicine
Somewhere near the beginning of the film Fight Club Edward Norton’s character observes that “when you have insomnia you’re never really...
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Jul 23, 2021
Depression from the Perspective of Chinese Medicine
A brief look at how 5 Element acupuncture can provide effective and empowering treatment for depression
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Jul 13, 2021
Depression: Part.1. The Making of a Modern Malady
Depression has a long history and melancholia (the name depression was given prior to the 20th century) is mentioned in the Aphorisms of...
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May 13, 2021
Qigong and the Autonomic Nervous System
Most of what follows was written some years ago in response to a paper on psychoneuroimmunology. It really was me thinking aloud and was...
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Apr 20, 2021
Acupuncture, Poetry and Perception
I’ve recently started working from a new clinic and decided I wanted to have something on the wall that said something about what it is...
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Jan 16, 2021
Diet, Cancer and Chemotherapy
How the work of Dr Valter Longo may dramatically improve the experience of at least some patients undergoing chemotherapy. It’s almost...
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Mar 11, 2020
Eric Fromm and Classical Chinese Conceptions of Health
How Eric Fromm's idea of the 'Being Mode' mirrors ancient Chinese conceptions of health
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