Sword & Lute: Dr. Ng’s Stories of Healing
recommended reading: http://swordandlute.blogspot.com/
“Brain waste removal” – of sleep and the liver
ARTICLE TODAY: Brain waste removed during sleep – 10/17/13 Science is showing now that some kind of ‘brain waste removal’ happens during sleep – involving the liver somehow… It seems in almost every traditional culture in some way related with this organ we call the “liver” – there have been some striking correlations. Universally…
The Qi character
The character for ‘qi’ in Chinese has many meanings – the usual translation being, generally, ‘energy’. One way to begin to explore its meaning from a TCM, medical point of view, is to look at the pictograph itself: The character depicts 气 (“steam”) over 米 (“rice”): qi is analogous to steam produced from the cooking…
Da Yuan Circle – on Daoism
“Da Yuan Circle – Daoism Lao Zi’s Dao To explain the roots we should start with the first chapter of Laozi’s Daodejing, a text that predates Chinese Daoism by 500 years. This chapter, like many in this amazing text, describes the authors (the text was collectively written) understanding of the spiritual wisdom that informed the…