Absolutely fascinating Christina.
I think it's awesome that you have incorporated much of this stuff into your practice. I don't pretend to know a lot about Chinese medicine (but I'm working on it ), but my gut tells me that some very important core ideas are being overlooked by many practitioners today. To hear you are integrating these things is very reassuring.
Thanks for the sidebar, again this is great to hear. It seems to correspond more with the ancient way of diagnosing and treating based on which points are deficient or in excess of qi (as I understand it). Really I know next to nothing about it, but I'm fascinated by it and hope to eventually incorporate it into my own practice.
Of course the world where we live is vastly different from the one inhabited by our past masters and as such we have to take allowance of this modern world in our treatments (as you said, the patient with raging arthritis doesn't care about the phase of the moon and we have to pay the bills), but those classics are a roadmap and we can often better treat people by following them as close as possible.
I'm really looking forward to seeing you again in Malaysia and discussing this with you .
I think it's awesome that you have incorporated much of this stuff into your practice. I don't pretend to know a lot about Chinese medicine (but I'm working on it ), but my gut tells me that some very important core ideas are being overlooked by many practitioners today. To hear you are integrating these things is very reassuring.
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Of course the world where we live is vastly different from the one inhabited by our past masters and as such we have to take allowance of this modern world in our treatments (as you said, the patient with raging arthritis doesn't care about the phase of the moon and we have to pay the bills), but those classics are a roadmap and we can often better treat people by following them as close as possible.
I'm really looking forward to seeing you again in Malaysia and discussing this with you .
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