Guest guest Posted February 10, 2009 Report Share Posted February 10, 2009 In every town I visit, I look for chinese medicine practitioners, check their prices, make appointments. Whether it is communal balance type on a sliding scale or by appointment only, or regular stuff. Sample the whole economic range. $20 to $250 per treatment. Pay in cash. Random sampling. MD's and traditionalists. So I honestly say what my main complaint is, watch and analyze their point selection, try to free myself to what energies they are giving and exploring, see whether they are with the in breath or out breath insertion, (basic balance method)etc. techniques. Ask why they do what they are doing, what they see, and I'm honest, so not to bias the experience. I just don't say I have a little exposure to acupuncture too. Just for fun, for seeing what is out there. Kind of voyeuristic. I wanna play. It's very interesting to me, there really is so much talent and enthusiasm. Not that I am anyone to be able to judge, but the old system is deep in most of their approach. Some open with the four gates, some jump right in w sp6 st36 li4 li11, w electro stim at 2 or 5hz. I have had only a little help w the $20,000 diagnostic/treatment machines. All races of practitioners. Sometimes it is so relaxing and therapuetic, I dream. Sometimes it is hurried and can take a day or two to feel. And it's only a story, told at bedtime. The herbs are a different story. My preference is to cook them and drink them as directed. The smell, the choice, is a dance with the body, led by the herbalist's intuition, and knowledge. But good concentrated powders are there, but have less power, usually. Sometimes they are right on the mark. I have a preference, so am biased maybe. In all this wandering, which is all I want to do now, I can see a real true thread of the chinese medical system present in all the different ways it's practiced by us. I'm an educated idiot, a journeyman in our trade. I looked for fun at the beggining posts of this group, and it has really become a big trading house of ideas. Thank you everyone for tolerating my clumsy words. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 10, 2009 Report Share Posted February 10, 2009 Hi Happy Wanderer- I don't know your name, but I really enjoyed your post. Andrea Beth Traditional Oriental Medicine Happy Hours in the CALM Center 1770 E. Villa Drive, Suite 5 Cottonwood, AZ 86326 (928) 274-1373 --- On Mon, 2/9/09, ykcul_ritsym <ykcul_ritsym wrote: In all this wandering, which is all I want to do now, I can see a real true thread of the chinese medical system present in all the different ways it's practiced by us. I'm an educated idiot, a journeyman in our trade. I looked for fun at the beggining posts of this group, and it has really become a big trading house of ideas. Thank you everyone for tolerating my clumsy words. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 10, 2009 Report Share Posted February 10, 2009 thanks --- On Tue, 2/10/09, < wrote: < Re: Happy Wanderer Chinese Medicine Tuesday, February 10, 2009, 1:57 AM Hi Happy Wanderer- I don't know your name, but I really enjoyed your post. Andrea Beth Traditional Oriental Medicine Happy Hours in the CALM Center 1770 E. Villa Drive, Suite 5 Cottonwood, AZ 86326 (928) 274-1373 --- On Mon, 2/9/09, ykcul_ritsym <ykcul_ritsym@ > wrote: In all this wandering, which is all I want to do now, I can see a real true thread of the chinese medical system present in all the different ways it's practiced by us. I'm an educated idiot, a journeyman in our trade. I looked for fun at the beggining posts of this group, and it has really become a big trading house of ideas. Thank you everyone for tolerating my clumsy words. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 11, 2009 Report Share Posted February 11, 2009 I feel like I don't understand anything anymore, or i understand evrything. Love, acupuncture, providing, children, a hard core set of qi practices that will give energy and longevity, sharing things with a love. Andrea, I spent a lot of time in arizona, near pheonix, in mesa. Where the old indian waterways fed the grapefruit orchards. My house was flooded often, then the waterbugs. Not a trace anymore. I'm a dinosaur. I just move, don't practise much, don't teach much. You tube or playstation 3 can simulate the whole of acupuncture, or teach somebody to anything. But Qi gung, plum or seven star needle, tai chi sets of our teachers on tape. My teacher forbid anybody photographing her tai chi or tai chi sword. She was a china champion, then usa champion. 1st place tai chi, taichi pushhands, ba gua, tai chi sword, etc. Became a judge one year into usa. So gentle, such a lovely person. When we took a walk and ended up at a train stop, all the kids just naturally fell for her, me too. I wish I wasn't in the midst of a marriage breakup. But. She let me film her routine, we presented many times in philadelphia. And her husband took care of their child during our lessons. Such a sweet deadly woman. Cheerful, positive. Lilly Zheng. I don't know anything, I'm falling apart. I see the sun and moon and stars, know the rising qi a little, but I kinda don't care. If I sought acupuncture treatment now, it would be because of sadness. Who cares? That's the question, who fucking cares. The ones who do either have an incredible family life or a visualization of a larger one. My name is Fran Cahill, I am very devoted to my love at time. I wander because there hasn't been truth or fulfillment in anything, except everything, since I was a kid, I wanted to wander --- On Tue, 2/10/09, < wrote: < Re: Happy Wanderer Chinese Medicine Tuesday, February 10, 2009, 1:57 AM Hi Happy Wanderer- I don't know your name, but I really enjoyed your post. Andrea Beth Traditional Oriental Medicine Happy Hours in the CALM Center 1770 E. Villa Drive, Suite 5 Cottonwood, AZ 86326 (928) 274-1373 --- On Mon, 2/9/09, ykcul_ritsym <ykcul_ritsym@ > wrote: In all this wandering, which is all I want to do now, I can see a real true thread of the chinese medical system present in all the different ways it's practiced by us. I'm an educated idiot, a journeyman in our trade. I looked for fun at the beggining posts of this group, and it has really become a big trading house of ideas. Thank you everyone for tolerating my clumsy words. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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