This is a very good article that all of you should read regardless of whether you already have a good diet.

Remember when I posted that drawn out explanation of the taxonomical nightmare that is the campsis genus ( Read more... )

Article about how the appendix has recently been shown to have more functions than previously thought, with the interesting point that while it may not be a vestigial "useless" organ, its functions are still somewhat obsolete because of our modern lifestyle.

The Appendix: Useful and in Fact Promising

Campsis is a genus of two species: Campsis grandiflora, and Campsis radicans. But each of these has more botanical names, in part due to the fact that no one seems to be able to agree which genus each of them is really in, or for that matter whether they ought to be in the same genus at all. That last point is especially relevant if you consider ( Read more... )

For those of you who read my last post, this is actually what I'd been meaning to write about when a wrote that other generic shlock instead ( Read more... )

The study of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is incomplete without a study of "The Classics." This isn't necissarily because the classics inform a large part of modern clinical practice. It's just because that's the way it's done and that's the way it's always been done. The general approach to The Classics is that they are difficult to ( Read more... )

I was going to write a more extensive entry about this, but something came up, and now it's almost midnight, so I'm just going to mention this:

The Shang Han Lun, the classical treatise on "cold damage" that was compiled by the famous Han Dynasty doctor Zhang Ji (Zhong Jing), is still encorporated to a large extent into modern clinical practice. ( Read more... )

One of my longstanding wishes for the new Obama Administration (side note: wooooo woooo!!!!) is that the healthcare reform that's been so widely talked about will encorporate a greater degree of cooperation with alternative healthcare. And here's an article that explains to some extent why I think that's important. You might say I'm biased, but ( Read more... )

A friend of mine brought his I Ching kit to school today. Basically, he has the book, the I Ching (or "Book of Changes", an ancient book that interprets the meaning of trigrams that are arrived at through some system of oracle or divination), and a clutch of yarrow twigs which he keeps in a special cloth; these he uses to divine the trigrams ( Read more... )

Do you guys all remember the Five F's? Well, there's also a Four F's, and they're completely different ( Read more... )