NEWS FLASH!
SPRING EQUINOX 2023 WATER RABBIT YEAR
Hi everyone!
Hope you are well 🙏🏼
If you’re a former subscriber or client, or recent client – you are on my newsletter list!. Which is occasional and I hope informative and fun. I mix in some observations about Chinese medicine as well as about what the clinic is up to.
I haven’t sent anything for over a year now, but I hope to make it informative and useful again. If you don’t want to be on, of course you can unsubscribe or let me know.
In the past I’ve provided some entertainment and Chinese New Year predictions and I hope concise and unique content…
I still find understanding and appreciating those bigger cosmic themes interesting if it’s mind-opening and not dogmatic. So it’s the Water Rabbit year 💦🐰 – and one of the Rabbits’ motto is “It wasn’t me 🙃” .. so good excuse for laying fairly low on the predictive.
OK just to toss in something… This year’s Rabbit brings generalized agreements, potentially peaceful 😅 or at least maybe there’s no other recourse but to pause … that set stage for next years massive spectacular reorientation that could save our asses environmentally (Dragon landing in 2024 🐲) … leading to a huge unknown underlying change that could shake foundations pretty deeply (Snake 2025 🐍 – I’m looking at you AI/ChatGPT 🤖). That’s about all I got right now, lol.
IF you want to read way too much on this year of the Rabbit , this guy: http://www.tigersplayastrology.com/tigers-play.
As for me, I’ve been in Thailand around Chiang Mai 
since mid-January, taking a sabbatical from my practice in Ashland, until I return sometime in June. I will send out another email updating my plans for sure.
Here’s a cute kid at a guesthouse where I was staying in Central Chiang Mai
Now I’m at in the middle of Nowhere, which is Saraphi south of Chiang Mai. Fortunately I have my guitar. It is very hot, and I can’t recommend the air quality. But it’s very great to hear the monks chants carry over the rice fields and to enjoy the sweet nature of the Northern Thai people.
I just got hired to teach a short course about Chinese medicine (to local foreigners aka ‘farangs’) at a local Thai Traditional Medicine Institute in Chiang Mai (allied with Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai university) – which should be very interesting. This course is for them to understand Chinese medicine by an experienced English speaking practitioner – kind of an entry way to getting them to connect with Traditional Northern Thai (Lanna) medicine
I am also presently working with clients in the U.S. We’ve been doing video conferencing and texting, primarily around refilling herbs but also consultations generally.
We can set up a simple chat consultation to refill if you are an existing client.
We can also schedule a more involved video chat (new, old, or existing client) if we need to do a consultation
In a scheduled consultation we can do a full evaluation and also talk about diet, lifestyle, activity suggestions, acupressure, appropriate referral (even bring in life readings using Vedic/Chinese cycles or the I Ching if you like). Though I can’t do the traditional pulses reading at a distance, video face-to-face offers a lot of information and can actually work well (I did this at the beginning of the Covid epidemic) .
Once we decide on a formula, it is really very easy for me to ship it to you for a small drop-ship charge.
If you are interested and would like to set it up or for more information :
EMAIL: centerforchinesemedicine@gmail.com
or
TEXT: 541-621-7101
about working with me and Herbs
To be honest, I haven’t found someone I can completely rely on to work with herbs in the way I did. (For acupuncture for existing clients, I may have a few referral recommendations)
When I think about my practice in Ashland and being an acupuncturist for 36 years, – I think I was most recognized for how I worked with doing Chinese Herbs with clients. Over the years I’ve continued customizing and working with formulas. In the clinic, it was possible to give small samples of formulas, different remedies for day and night, sample to try, soup herbs, and of course bulk (raw) herbs in the way I thought was best.
I also developed protocol for remedies that are seasonal and chronic conditions. A definite focus has been herbs for energy and fatigue, sleep, respiratory and digestive issues. I always have tried to ground my approach by using Traditional formulas from the long and vast history of Chinese Medicine 
☯️ .
And to use these strategies with new approaches, often around dosage and timing (rather than jump on multi-level marketing or CBD or some proprietary blend of herbs based on someone’s modern mindset). I’m open to some new and eclectic approaches. But what I can offer best is more of a classical approach with a practical modern and understandable rationale. I aim the herbs, and the education behind the prescription, very much to the actual person I’m working with. It’s not one-size-fits-all.. Sometimes less is more, sometimes we have to give it all we’ve got.
In some ways in the U.S. we are still in a golden age of availability of these herbs 🏆 – at least at the present moment – and that could change quickly! It’s not at all as easy to get these formulas here in Thailand, or in places I’ve been in Europe or Central and South America. So I’m here (well…over here lol) and they are still available for us 😉
Hope you have a great Spring and the snow there provides for an awesome season to come. Enjoy that beautiful clean air ❄️🌲
All the best
Ken