Regarding Coffee as a medicinal

“not everything healthy is inconvenient and rare.”
by Subhuti Dharmananda, Ph.D., Director, Institute for Traditional Medicine, Portland, Oregon
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What color is your parachute?

This is taken from my mentor’s blog
If you don’t catch it the first go-round, it’s a comment on the absolute ridiculousness that is western science’s dependency on the double blind trial. Scientific method my left placebo…
What color is your parachute?
Abstract
Objectives To determine whether parachutes are effective in preventing major trauma related to gravitational challenge.
Design [...]

Yang Shou Zhong’s Taijiquan

This is an old film of Yang Shou Zhong, son of Yang Cheng Fu. For those not aware, Cheng Fu was the grandson of the founder of Yang Taijiquan, Yang Lu Chan. Cheng Fu was responsible for making changes to the form that led to the popularization of the style while keeping its martial side [...]

Heart/Spirit/Reason and its place.

“As the king governs by his executive, so Reason in man must rule the mere appetites by means of the ’spirited element.’”
- C. S. Lewis

“Yi Yi Yin Qi- The mind leads and the energy follows”
-Taijiquan saying
“The heart is the master of the body and the emperor of the organ networks. There is the structural heart [...]

XYQ/TJQ 4TW

If there are any of you out there who are still reading this blog from its days as a martial arts rumination, I’m pleased to announce that I have resumed training. I’ve taken up He Bei style Xingyiquan and have converted from the Yang Taijiquan put forth by Yang Jwing Ming in favor of the [...]

Writing tips courtesy of C.J. Cherryh

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Psychotropic drugs in retrospect/the joys of modern medicine

Back when I was on the psych drugs, I used to be a frequenter of the site http://www.crazymeds.us/  in an attempt to get any kind of information that I could in order to get a grip on what plagued me. The results: rapidly approaching death. However, a year into being treated by a top notch [...]

Pot=Safe? Eh, no.

This is from the book Dragon Rises, Red Bird Flies by Dr. Leon Hammer
“I have observed the effects of marijuana on both the pulse and the
life of many people over the years and can testify to specific changes
that occur generally. With drugs, the Liver pulse gradually becomes
Empty, a yang deficient condition observed after mononucleosis,
hepatitis, significant [...]

A little happiness.

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Here’s a good sign

Wall Street Journal Monitors CAM rise in numbers:
“Interest in complementary and alternative medicine is on the rise
worldwide, and China is eager to partake in the growing market. In the
U.S. alone, sales of alternative remedies reached approximately $5
billion in 2005, according to a market study by Mintel research. Nearly
62% of American adults have used some sort [...]