233 Teaching, Learning and the Music of Medicine • Etienne Simard
Acupuncture “The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harpof man’s body and reduce it to harmony.”― Francis Bacon Music and Medicine have a lot in common. In the deepest sense, medicine is a kind...
229 Saam Panel on Practice • Sharon Sherman, Jeri Steele & Charles Bishop
Acupuncture Yin/Yang is a lovely idea. The counterbalance of opposites sounds so good on paper, but the expression of those heavenly ideas within the limitations and form of Earth brings a lot of suffering, strife and pain. And yet, when we look at the earth as a whole, when we...
227 Repairing the World with Moxa • Hannah Swift
Default 針灸 Needles and Moxa, it is right there in the Chinese characters that are translated as “acupuncture.” Moxa is as fundamental to our practices as needles. The applications of burning mugwort run the gamut from cheap acrid Chinese pole moxa to ultra refined sweet...
226 Connections and Principles of Japanese Acupuncture, The Nan Jing, and the Saam Method • Thomas Sorensen
Acupuncture Leaves on a plant curl and turn yellow when the soil is not right. The health of a cat is reflected in the texture of its fur and clearity in the eyes. Likewise with people we can discern states of wellness or illness by attending to those parts of the body that are...