Oriental medical practitioners like me use the concept of ‘opposite interdependent energies’ to explain and highlight the necessity of balance in the body and in the environment. We call these energies yin and yang (pronounced ...
The Chinese became aware of the principles of acupuncture over 5,000 years ago. Warriors noticed that specific physical ailments started to improve after receiving puncture wounds during sword fights. Chinese physicians began to observe the ...
The title of this column exemplifies what we have all been experiencing over the past couple years. We have all been subjected to a pervasive COVID-19 pandemic that has claimed over 960,000 American lives (Ritchie ...
This column focuses on applications of Twelve Step principles in coping with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. As of this writing, daily case numbers are again spiking, with experts predicting a particularly heavy caseload throughout the ...
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