Overhaul Complete

I’m pleased to announce that LGS has been pared down to dealing strictly with Chinese medicine and appropriately-related subjects. By way of organization, a Stalinic purge has been performed over here that I think will make sure that the material is appropos to the audience. (Note that I will be tinkering with the presentation [...]

How to formulate a point protocol.

Something that I’ve noticed to be very lacking among both students and teachers at my TCM-oriented school clinic (as opposed to CCM or Classical Chinese Medicine)is a real understanding of how to choose and differentiate points for an acupuncture treatment. I’ve noticed that methods tend to fall into the categories of either what I call [...]

RIP Robert Jordan

My favorite living author today joined the ranks of my favorite authors on the other side of “the gray rain curtain of this world.” James Oliver Rigney, jr. (pen name Robert Jordan) died of Primary Cardiac Amyloidosis. When i learned of his diagnosis last year and then learned a bit more about the disease, I [...]

Failed Diet Plans

Well, apparently disease is a lousy form of weight-loss program. I’ve had a wicked virus that activated my perma-virus (EBV for the nosy among you) and have thus been on a liquid diet for three days. I’d honestly hoped to be thinner as a payoff. Guess all that sugar from the gallons of Gatorade I’ve [...]

Organization

I’ve been inspired by my new friend Eric over at Deepest Health to start taking an honest look at the lack of organization in my life and to consider it as a very real root of many problems for me. What’s interesting is that Eric is now the second person in my life within the [...]

ACAOM Accredits Doctoral Programs for OCOM, Bastyr

Here is the location of the announcement: http://www.aaom.info/qiunity/07/08/10.html
My school is very fond of telling us that because no one has accredited any Doctoral programs that they really don’t matter and aren’t valuable and our school will provide us with the best education possible under the aegis of the ACAOM accredited MSOM. I’m curious to hear [...]