I just want to thank you for all your amazing contributions. You seem to have your finger on the pulse of what needs to be talked about. I am so grateful for coming across your substack and share the link often..
A great article. One thing I noticed in myself, being Western trained in an alternative provider profession is that to make the leap from the standard of care (ie tyranny of licensing boards to suppress the First Anendment rights of the practitioner) to say the TCM model is very difficult unless the practitioner is a good pattern matcher. This is primarily due to language. Western medicine has no concept of 'splsen qi deficiency' because the spleen in this context is not the organ that is vague and licensing boards think it is ok to remove, kinda like we remove gonads from our pets. It is a system and even using that terminology, what does pancreatitis mean in TCM? Or gall stones?
It is a mindset shift that requires dismantling years of indoctrination in professional schools and hundreds of thousands of dollars to create. There is a tendency to want to map say pancreatitis to an organ system, when there may be more than one involved. To successfully make the leap, you have to learn to trust your intuition and disconnect yourself from a label, like pacreatitis or spleen qi deficiency and ask the person or if you are a vet, the animal. This means that true healing is not a label, but a connection with the organism, a living being no matter what the species. Only then can you learn a system that is radically different in terminology from the one you were taught.
Chinese herbs have a frequency associated with them, just like herbs given Latin names by botanists. Some of the best herbalists I know of (as opposed to know personally) connect with the herb before making medicine out of it. I think this is what the Amish do. Pharmaceuticals do too and not all are negative. For example, fenbenzadole is energetically neutral in that it has no effect on your frequency. That said most are negative (lowers frequencies). This is why fenbenzadole when used as intended works and suggest that cancer is either a sequestration of parasitic eggs, or an active parasite overrun (a terrain issue).
However, once you get to the point where intuition matters in assessing care for a PATTERN OF SYMTOMS, the care is usually simple. The pattern's name matters little. If using the TCM system, the pattern dictates the herb and needling locations. If using a system like reiki then the layering of energy restoration is easier to see in more complex terrain issues.
Great essay. Keep pounding home the accumulation of damage across generations.
Hopefully more people will start to take responsibility for their own health. And your Substack library will be where to go to find the clues that lead to the answers.
Good health is the foundation of personal freedom. People need to get healthy if they hope to stay free.
Comparable to when the automatic metronome was introduced. Many composers cringed as they saw how the tempos suggested became a hard rule, and the whole of the essence of the music was much subdued. Especially the idea that heart rates are constants, when in fact high heart rate variability is a true measure of health. These idiot systems want to calcify us inside and out.
Twenty-five million Americans who had gone to bed at a healthy weight woke up overweight. - I only read this far, and had to laugh heartily, because I am 'over' all the modern numbers, but fine in those of the time I was born. I also have a funky headache like feeling when the barometer goes down. I now know I am not crazy. Your articles are worth every penny! Now I will read on. Thanks for the laugh.
It would be very good to have an Eastern trained doctor nearby. I think I would even trust a native medicine man or woman who took the time to get to know me more, than someone who sees you for 3 minutes and sends you home with some poison. I also hate the omnipresent 'signs of life' and 'bloodwork'. Even in Europe this is not done routinely (or maybe it is nowadays, as all bad things cross the ocean, but very few good things do)
The thing about the blood pressure! When my doctor told me I was hypertensive because myBP was120/89. We had words, I no longer see him. But he is the victim of a system that bows to Pharma. As an RD, I have to continually remind people about the changing numbers game for cholesterol, BP, Blood Glucose, it's a racket pure and simple. And one day, I'm going to get in trouble, up until then, I keep marching on to the beat of the truth.
Thanks to people like you, who testify against the corrupt system, one day we will beat it. I am thankful that at least the doc where I went found 140/90 to still be valid, and I am usually under or around that. And 2 retired nurses told me 100+my age should be the upper limit. That felt real good!
I got my first two cats in 2000. I'm currently hosting numbers 11 through 19. One of the current crop, a purebred Siamese, had GI issues when I got her: GI noise, vomiting, and obvious discomfort because she sat around looking reproachful instead of playing like a kitten should. She came from the same breeder who produced my first pair of cats in 2000. I switched her and her sister to a semi-raw ("lightly cooked") diet and within two months all her GI issues were over. After a few more months I transitioned them to a raw diet. She's now comfortable, happy, insanely energetic, and playful. Yes, that's an anecdote. No, the plural of anecdote is not data. But the cat is happy and medication-free, and it makes complete sense to me that the principles behind the strategies that work for her also apply to human health.
At one time medicine was considered to be both an art and science. The art was in walking into the room and seeing the whole patient: all the visible clues that contribute to a lightning-fast but accurate assessment that's combined with clinical experience and knowledge. The art that complements the science. These days, outside of surgical specialties, medicine is often not even science. It's "evidence-based," which is not medicine based on evidence but on averages across populations, and that's not medicine. At best it's sociology; at worst it's buck-passing by doctors, administrators, and legal departments.
I just want to thank you for all your amazing contributions. You seem to have your finger on the pulse of what needs to be talked about. I am so grateful for coming across your substack and share the link often..
A great article. One thing I noticed in myself, being Western trained in an alternative provider profession is that to make the leap from the standard of care (ie tyranny of licensing boards to suppress the First Anendment rights of the practitioner) to say the TCM model is very difficult unless the practitioner is a good pattern matcher. This is primarily due to language. Western medicine has no concept of 'splsen qi deficiency' because the spleen in this context is not the organ that is vague and licensing boards think it is ok to remove, kinda like we remove gonads from our pets. It is a system and even using that terminology, what does pancreatitis mean in TCM? Or gall stones?
It is a mindset shift that requires dismantling years of indoctrination in professional schools and hundreds of thousands of dollars to create. There is a tendency to want to map say pancreatitis to an organ system, when there may be more than one involved. To successfully make the leap, you have to learn to trust your intuition and disconnect yourself from a label, like pacreatitis or spleen qi deficiency and ask the person or if you are a vet, the animal. This means that true healing is not a label, but a connection with the organism, a living being no matter what the species. Only then can you learn a system that is radically different in terminology from the one you were taught.
Chinese herbs have a frequency associated with them, just like herbs given Latin names by botanists. Some of the best herbalists I know of (as opposed to know personally) connect with the herb before making medicine out of it. I think this is what the Amish do. Pharmaceuticals do too and not all are negative. For example, fenbenzadole is energetically neutral in that it has no effect on your frequency. That said most are negative (lowers frequencies). This is why fenbenzadole when used as intended works and suggest that cancer is either a sequestration of parasitic eggs, or an active parasite overrun (a terrain issue).
However, once you get to the point where intuition matters in assessing care for a PATTERN OF SYMTOMS, the care is usually simple. The pattern's name matters little. If using the TCM system, the pattern dictates the herb and needling locations. If using a system like reiki then the layering of energy restoration is easier to see in more complex terrain issues.
You are my hero and a treasure. Thank you for sharing your insights, research, and wisdom
Great essay. Keep pounding home the accumulation of damage across generations.
Hopefully more people will start to take responsibility for their own health. And your Substack library will be where to go to find the clues that lead to the answers.
Good health is the foundation of personal freedom. People need to get healthy if they hope to stay free.
Comparable to when the automatic metronome was introduced. Many composers cringed as they saw how the tempos suggested became a hard rule, and the whole of the essence of the music was much subdued. Especially the idea that heart rates are constants, when in fact high heart rate variability is a true measure of health. These idiot systems want to calcify us inside and out.
Twenty-five million Americans who had gone to bed at a healthy weight woke up overweight. - I only read this far, and had to laugh heartily, because I am 'over' all the modern numbers, but fine in those of the time I was born. I also have a funky headache like feeling when the barometer goes down. I now know I am not crazy. Your articles are worth every penny! Now I will read on. Thanks for the laugh.
It would be very good to have an Eastern trained doctor nearby. I think I would even trust a native medicine man or woman who took the time to get to know me more, than someone who sees you for 3 minutes and sends you home with some poison. I also hate the omnipresent 'signs of life' and 'bloodwork'. Even in Europe this is not done routinely (or maybe it is nowadays, as all bad things cross the ocean, but very few good things do)
The thing about the blood pressure! When my doctor told me I was hypertensive because myBP was120/89. We had words, I no longer see him. But he is the victim of a system that bows to Pharma. As an RD, I have to continually remind people about the changing numbers game for cholesterol, BP, Blood Glucose, it's a racket pure and simple. And one day, I'm going to get in trouble, up until then, I keep marching on to the beat of the truth.
Thanks to people like you, who testify against the corrupt system, one day we will beat it. I am thankful that at least the doc where I went found 140/90 to still be valid, and I am usually under or around that. And 2 retired nurses told me 100+my age should be the upper limit. That felt real good!
A treasure this is!
I got my first two cats in 2000. I'm currently hosting numbers 11 through 19. One of the current crop, a purebred Siamese, had GI issues when I got her: GI noise, vomiting, and obvious discomfort because she sat around looking reproachful instead of playing like a kitten should. She came from the same breeder who produced my first pair of cats in 2000. I switched her and her sister to a semi-raw ("lightly cooked") diet and within two months all her GI issues were over. After a few more months I transitioned them to a raw diet. She's now comfortable, happy, insanely energetic, and playful. Yes, that's an anecdote. No, the plural of anecdote is not data. But the cat is happy and medication-free, and it makes complete sense to me that the principles behind the strategies that work for her also apply to human health.
At one time medicine was considered to be both an art and science. The art was in walking into the room and seeing the whole patient: all the visible clues that contribute to a lightning-fast but accurate assessment that's combined with clinical experience and knowledge. The art that complements the science. These days, outside of surgical specialties, medicine is often not even science. It's "evidence-based," which is not medicine based on evidence but on averages across populations, and that's not medicine. At best it's sociology; at worst it's buck-passing by doctors, administrators, and legal departments.
Measuring people's cholesterol levels is a complete waste of time.
A big money making machine in which we are the cogs that keep the big wheels turning !!!