the Anywhere Clinic

excerpt from an email to a patient:

You can work on slow breathing. I mean really slow, smooth, and relaxed, like you're sipping sweet air through a straw that's the very back of your airways to fill up your lungs from the bottom to the top. I can get down to 2 breaths a minute (15 seconds inhale, 15 seconds exhale) but you can start by timing yourself breathing normally and try to cut that down by half. For example, if you breathe 12 breaths a ...

It is always exciting when things shift the way you intended them to, sometimes sooner than expected. It is also sometimes puzzling and terrifying too, to face that moment when the patient comes back and says,

"That was great! Can you replicate it?"

I'm no longer in the 'no, I was totally guessing' phase as a practitioner, but often (too often for comfort) I find myself unsure of how or what to d...

Thoughts that floated through my head while reading "All Diseases Come from the Heart" by Heiner Fruehauf" during his lecture:

The diseases within the microcosm of the human body correspond to the macrocosm of human history.

Hi Margaret,

Here's an alphabetical list of Nei Jing references to dreams that I compiled on November 4, 2014. I'll try to get you an actual translation (Amy-style, beware incoming whimsical approximations! ) soon.

The rest of you fine people, I included because I thought you'd find this interesting. Please don't hesitate to let me know if yo...

I can't find any information on the properties of fennel leaves or stalks, but pepper, like we thought, is spicy hot, goes into stomach/large intestine (i.e. yangming) meridians, and seems mostly good for warming 'cold heart & abdomen' i.e. epigastric symptoms (e.g., vomiting clear fluid, undigested food in stools, nausea & hiccups with inability to eat). Patient may have "limbs cold as ice." Black pepper (like green/white tea) is the raw unripened least processed form....