As covered in Part 1, each of the 5 elements (wuxing) are correlated to a flavor. What’s important here is that yes, you enjoy your food so you can “nourish life” (yang sheng), but also that you get a steady mix. Too much sweet fattens and rottens. too much salt dries the blood. Too much […]
In a previous post, we discussed the OWNERS and HEALTH acronyms. Under N, we discussed briefly the concept of a “5 Element Diet” Fire – Heart/Small Intestine – Spicy – Red Earth – Spleen/Stomach – Sweet – Yellow & Orange Metal – Lung/Colon – Bitter – White & Gray Water – Kidney/bladder – Salty – […]
Hi all,this isn’t your usual TCM blog post. I wanted to introduce you to a powerful new philosophy category I’ve been engineering which using Plasma-electromagnetic Cosmology (PEMC) and Chinese metaphysics in order to create a very cogent, Judeo-Christian friendly, world respecting system. MIMS is short for the Membranous Interface of Material and Spiritual. It’s a […]
There are almost infinite varieties of lifestyle, and far be it for me to tell YOU how to live. Don’t let anyone tell you how to live, so long as you’re living a moral life (which you know in your heart and soul are moral). That’s important for the spirit (shen) and Qi-energy. But there […]
With COVID, the good news is that we have not had a huge number of people asking about fad diets and get-slim-quick schemes. The bad news: people are coming in for pain, depression, and anxiety so much that they are not coming in for weight gain, obesity, and diet. Why? People are overwhelmed (see part […]
It is important, now more than ever, to be aware of all that is going on. But how do you maintain a healthy balance with red-pill, black-pill, and showing you care about social issues without losing your autonomy, all your money, health, and friends & family? When you are a carer, this is a serious […]
The way the Changes roll forward, one sometimes gets the impression that they will steamroll us all the time. Actually, that’s a condition created by too much going on in the mind and too much sensation in the body. The sages of ancient China thought that city folk had a mental pathogen. The outcome of […]
Shi 勢, is a combination of several factors: tendency or propensity, momentum, inertia, configuration, structure, advantage, ability, and position. In the Art of War it is called “strategic configuration of power.” In life it is simply position (or class or caste). But right now I want to speak, earnestly, to the audience about the world […]
I hear from people a lot that they want to “deal with depression” or “harmonize” or “fix their energy” etc. I hear that they want Balance. To achieve this, is not to find some standing point where you can stay in homeostasis forever. But let’s give something more practical. First is the HEALTH and OWNERS […]
In Chinese medicine we don’t seek the easy or fast path… although it is nice when you have a 1-needle wonder case! We seek continual, gradual effort through transformation and becoming better people. This takes time, effort, patience, and stick-to-it-tiveness. This last one is difficult, often because of preconceived expectations, or because of life’s challenges, […]
