Comments for The Life-giving Sword

Comment on A song of Xingyiquan by arnuld

arnuld — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:22:28 +0000

Nice Song. I will take it as the Xingyiquan fighting style and spirit.

Comment on Penn & Teller vs Chinese Medicine by Carnival of Healing #144- The Eclectic Issue | Chinese Medicine Notes

Carnival of Healing #144- The Eclectic Issue | Chinese Medicine Notes — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 10:46:24 +0000

[...] Penn & Teller vs. Chinese Medicine is taken from The Life Giving Sword, a blog about Chinese Medicine. Skeptics surround us and are very vocal with their anti-Chinese Medicine opinions, which are 95% of the time based on un-true information. They make me angry mainly because they publish lies and twisted information which they present as true. Why must it always be one thing or the other? Why can’t Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine co-exist and provide the best of both worlds for the patient? [...]

Comment on Microbes as cause of Mental Illness by chenquestion

chenquestion — Tue, 20 May 2008 04:20:25 +0000

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Comment on Video game bad guy training seminar by Learn The Art of Kata Seduction

Learn The Art of Kata Seduction — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 02:08:13 +0000

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Comment on Did TCM make a mistake in classification? by G. Michael Reynolds

G. Michael Reynolds — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:19:32 +0000

In short, yes. Saying “the Lung Channel” doesn’t provide anywhere near the implications that “Shou Tai Yin” does. I mean, there’s got to be a reason why it was named that instead of “the Wei Channel.”

Comment on Did TCM make a mistake in classification? by amandabarp

amandabarp — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:19:55 +0000

I guess I’m a little confused as to the question - sorry for my ignorance. Hand Taiyin includes the Lung organ system. Perhaps that’s what you’re saying? That they miss something by leaving out the REST of the system? I think that’s true and a symptom of the materialist culture that contemporary TCM grew up emulating. Hand Taiyin includes the lung organ network, but also includes the damp aspects of the body, the connections to the Spleen and many other functions and locations of the human being as well as interconnections with macrocosmic phenomenon. When we reduce this to “lung” we lose all of those layers of meaning, thus pathologies confuse us, formulas elude us and we become generally ineffective.

Yeah?

Eric Grey
http://deepesthealth.com

Comment on Video game bad guy training seminar by G. Michael Reynolds

G. Michael Reynolds — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:20:13 +0000

Agreed. I wasn’t so keen on that part of the video.

Comment on Video game bad guy training seminar by martialdev

martialdev — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 06:46:56 +0000

The sound effects are PERFECT! Making fun of small children, however, is always in bad taste.

Comment on Acupuncture treatment of Cancer and Classical/TCM differences illustration by G. Michael Reynolds

G. Michael Reynolds — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 19:07:09 +0000

Yah. Ed 4TW.

My observation is somewhat similar to yours. At my school you generally see (here I go making lists again. i swear I’m not German):

1. a lack of comfort with herbs but the feeling that a formula should be involved, so a prof ends up coming up with a formula for them. Or more often, a patent formula is assigned and at a worthless dosage.

2. It’s an acupuncture clinic, so pretty much every patient gets needled. Usually poorly and with marginal effectiveness because of the model we’re using.

3. Because the students don’t have a huge amount of confidence in their abilities with either of the primary options (or even in the modalities themselves) the kitchen sink gets thrown at the patient. Tui na, cupping, ear seeds, food therapy plans (my personal pet peeve and generally the first thing on most FCIM students minds), the odd Traumeel injection, and with any luck the purchase of a package of 10 treatments for $50 off the total price.

So in that light, it’s still a bit of a jolt to see Tran kicking ass and taking names with only Zhen Jiu, because we still hear very frequently “well you’re going to need to refer them out to a Western doctor for that” or “this situation they really need to get antibiotics for” or “they really need to go get their T3/T4/TSH levels done” or other such insanity.

On Saturday I was in a 3 week class that preps you for Treater level and the question was put across as to where we draw the line of our scope of support. There were several answers of “well I think Western medicine is just better at _______ than we are” and “well we’re very good for treatment of pain but for _________ situation they need to be referred out to an MD”. I then asked if anyone could tell me the name of the hospital in China whose ER Zhang Zhong Jing sent his tricky patients to.

Such are our times.

Comment on Video game bad guy training seminar by G. Michael Reynolds

G. Michael Reynolds — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:52:10 +0000

Right you are!

A) no one can stay together despite doing the same form, indicating there isn’t much rigor in the teaching process.

B) They’re completely off balance at all times. A stiff wind could knock them over.

C) No focus. Arms and legs flinging around like they’re at a hardcore show. (Earth Crisis, not Larry Flynt)

D) You can look at their shoulders and see how high their energy is focused. When your neck is your center of gravity, look out.

E) When watching, your thumb automatically itches to start hammering on a non existent B button.